Additional Ryanair fees
Ryanair is to charge an additional €2.00 fee from the 4th April, to cover the costs of disrupted travel due to incidents such as the ash cloud, Air Traffic strikes and snow.
We wait to see if this is per flight or just per booking.
It will be described as a “EU261 Compensation Levy” because
The airline says, “It is unfair and discriminatory that airlines are made liable for providing refunds, meals, hotels and phonecalls during ATC strikes, bad weather airport closures, or (volcanic) airspace closures when even travel insurance companies avoid liability during these “force majeure” events, and when competing transport providers (rail, ferries and coach operators) have no such “force majeure” liability under their equivalent EU261 regulations.
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