France Limiting Airline Competition?
Ryanair, the Irish low-fare airline that has been shaking up the European air travel market in the past years, has filed a suit against France, and has also petitioned the European Union. As the BBC reports, RyanAir claims that France has passed legislation that puts non-French airlines at a competitive disadvantage:
“Ryanair has filed a legal action in the French Conseil d’Etat requesting it to overturn this unlawful and anticompetitive labour decree,” said Jim Callaghan, Ryanair’s head of regulatory affairs. “This decree is clearly designed to discourage foreign airlines from establishing a base of operations in France in order to compete with the high fare monopoly, Air France,” he added.
Ryanair is reported not have specified what labor restrictions it objects to. Ryanair flies to and from 18 French airports, and has previously made similar allegations, which the French government denied.
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