Boss Ryanair Michael O’Leary Rails against EU law that costs passengers £ 7 for flight
Twenty years after the rights on the rights of European air passengers has entered into force, the air leaders say that the rules – known as EU261 – cost 8 billion euros per year.
Meetings in Brussels, the CEO of the main groups of European airlines have stated that the burden of the regulations meeting is transmitted to passengers at higher rates.
Michael O’Leary, CEO of Ryanairsaid The Independent: “Eu261 costs each of our passengers € 8 (£ 7) on the ticket price”.
Ourania Georgoutitaskou, CEO of the pressure of the group airlines of the group for Europe, said: “The European Commission has confirmed that 261 thus commits that today it costs 8 billion euros per year. So it is clearly necessary to be reformed.
“There are a couple of easy solutions that airlines for Europe see, first of all, a list of” exceptional circumstances “. The courts that must apply these rules are submerged with requests and waste.
“The other is to extend the delay threshold.”
Currently the right of passengers to care starts two hours on shorter flights. Mr. O’Lary said The Independent: “ATC (delays of air traffic control) starting next weekend will be considerably more than two hours on many flights”.
Carsten Spohr, CEO of the Lufthansa group, The Independent: “Passengers pay more for the EU261 than the airlines are doing profits. “
Apostolos Tzitzikostas, European commissioner of sustainable transport and tourism, said: “The negotiations on the reform of passenger rights are going on.
“We cannot create rules that overwhelm the industry with financial charges, which risk retaining growth. So we must balance financial stability for airlines with strong protection for passengers.”
Based on the rules of the rights of European air passengers, which the United Kingdom copied and glued after Brexit, the airlines have a duty of diligence in moments of interruption – such as the closure of Heathrow airport Last Friday after a cut of energy.
At least 250,000 passengers canceled their flights on Friday and Saturday.
The Independent Calculate the cost of care and new flights to them, together with the loss of revenue from the canceled departures, was approximately £ 100 million.
British Airwayswho has more than half of the flights to Heathrow, is most exposed to loss.
Sophie Chapman, director of access to the Heathrow surface, he said to London assembly Thursday morning: “The airport is using energy as the size of a small town, so it is really very difficult to build resilience for all the power that the airport would use”.
He also said: “” The airport took measures during the night to ensure that a complete service could work on Saturday and that’s exactly what happened “.
More than 100 flights to and from Heathrow were deleted on Saturday, adding to 1,300 plus cancellation on Friday.
