News: EU investigates alleged aid to Ryanair

Flights > News > # 1804 (18/06/2008)

European Union regulators have started a formal investigation into subsidies allegedly given to Frankfurt Hahn airport which may have benefited no-frills giant Ryanair.
The alleged aid came through fee agreements between the airport and Ryanair starting in 1999, the European Commission, the EU's antitrust authority, said in a statement.
The Irish airline’s legal chief, Jim Callaghan, said the commission's probe, its ninth into alleged state subsidies involving Ryanair, is a “politically motivated vendetta to block competition from low fares airlines at low cost regional and secondary airports.”
Mr Callaghan said the Commission should take action against governments' “blatant abuses” of state aid rules, such as Italy's €300 million (£240 million) loan to Alitalia.

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