RyanAir: Italian authorities tremendous airline greater than 255 million euros | EUROtoday

The Italian competitors authority has imposed a tremendous of greater than 255 million euros on the low-cost airline Ryanair due to allegations of abuse of a dominant market place. The Irish airline pursued an “abusive strategy” that made it tough for journey brokers to mix Ryanair flights with different providers between 2023 and a minimum of April 2025, regulator AGCM stated on Tuesday.

The technique “aimed at blocking, hindering or making it more difficult for travel agencies to purchase Ryanair flights on the ryanair.com website” or “making it more expensive (economically or technically),” the authority stated. “These practices limited the ability of travel agents to purchase Ryanair flights and combine them with flights from other airlines and/or additional travel services, thereby limiting direct and indirect competition between travel agents.”

Ryanair known as the choice “bizarre” and “unfounded” and introduced that it might take motion in opposition to it. Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary defined that when the corporate started operations 40 years in the past, 20 p.c of ticket income went to journey businesses and gross sales companions. The airline handed on “this 20 percent cost saving in the form of the lowest airfares in Italy and Europe,” he defined.

In 2019, Italy had already imposed a fee of three million euros on Ryanair – at the moment due to the apply of charging for hand baggage. However, an administrative courtroom later overturned the punishment.