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Spain - Ryanair Boarding Pass Charge Illegal

  • 15-01-2011 3:21pm
    #1
    Ms. Chanandler Bong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 724 ✭✭✭


    Not sure if this is the right forum, feel free to move mods if I'm wrong :)

    http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0114/ryanair.html

    "A judge in Spain has ruled that Ryanair cannot charge passengers for failing to print out their own boarding cards.
    A case was brought by a Spanish lawyer, Dan Miro, who was charged the standard Ryanair fee of €40 for failing to print his boarding card before a flight.
    Judge Barbara Maria Cordoba of the Barcelona Commercial Court said in the ruling 'the normal practice over the years has been that the obligation to issue the boarding card has always fallen on the carrier.'
    Judge Cordoba continued, 'I declare unfair and therefore void the contractual clause in which Ryanair obliges the passenger to be the one who brings the printed boarding pass to travel or face a penalty of €40.'
    Ryanair can still appeal the ruling.
    The Consumers Union of Spain (UCE) hailed the decision, describing Ryanair's policy on boarding cards as 'abusive.'
    The UCE said in a statement 'International air traffic laws, to which Ryanair is subject, oblige a transporter to provide the travel document.'
    Ryanair said in September it had overtaken Spanish flag carrier Iberia as the largest airline in Spain in terms of the number of passengers carried."


    So is this also illegal throughout Europe or just in Spain?


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  • #2
    undo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 860 ✭✭✭undo


    catreyn wrote: »
    So is this also illegal throughout Europe or just in Spain?

    This is a Spanish court's decision and so does not affect the situation at airports outside Spain. One day, a EU court may come to a similar conclusion. Until then, it is Spain only.

    Also, in one of the papers today, there was an article on the topic of this ruling. The way they explained it is this: You have to bring a printed boarding pass. If you do not, Ryanair kindly provide the service of printing it for you. This service costs €40. If this is ruled an unfair price, Ryanair can drop/reduce the price - or drop the service altogether. So, according to that newspaper article, Ryanair can just completely stop serving any passengers who do not bring boarding passes. It does not seem that this forces them to reintroduce free airport check-in (which is good IMHO; it saves Ryanair money and they are actually passing on the savings to us passengers).


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