Bailiffs board Ryanair plane after airline refuses to pay delayed flight compensation. The company refused to compensate a woman. She sued and won. Ryanair ignored the court order.
(www.theguardian.com)
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Fuck Ryanair. It is hard to overstate the amount of Schadenfreude I felt reading this article.
This track is all I know of Ryanair- www.youtube.com/watch?v=FId4gwVtwCw
They put a sticker on the plane, Ryanair didn’t pay their debt, and the plane was still allowed to depart.
Different rules for the rich I guess.
Missing deadlines is how they got here in the first place. How many warnings do you or I get when dodging a court judgement?
More than you probably think.
Source: I watch postings of courts on Youtube, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned (that I already knew, mind), it’s that justice moves very very slowly and gives many more chances than you’d think in many cases (while zero chances in others).
When you are rich or a large enough corporations missing deadlines is a okay.
She could keep it in her backyard.
They can still sell the airplane if Ryanair doesn’t pay. Did you want them to screw the innocent passengers for that flight too?
If Ryanair is evil/incompetent enough to screw a whole plane load of passengers over a couple hundred euro, how is that the fault of the original victim?
You want to deny them justice because RyanAir is using other passengers as a shield?
Unless Ryanair steals the airplane, the debt will be paid. And if they steal the airplane, then they will have a problem much bigger than €890.
This was a reasonable and proportional solution to the problem.
Ryanair operates in numerous countries. What’s stopping them from just moving the plane to “coincidentally” operate only in countries that won’t bother with seizing the plane?
So Ryanair would just need to quit the entirety of the European market, move their entire fleet in record time without anyone noticing, and hope Jordanian and Moroccan courts don’t decide to recognize the Austrian court order? For €890.
It’s a funny thought exercise, but in practice they are going to pay the compensation.
Am I the only one who has never experienced an issue with RyanAir? Maybe the issues are more pronounced in other countries with laxer regulations and consumer protection laws, but I know what I’m in for when I book RA. I am not the typical traveler, I travel to strange places and alone and very light and (no I don’t smuggle drugs except accidentally a few times) have a high pain tolerance, but never had a late flight or got shit that wasn’t printed on the box.
A lot of factors, including that it would mess up positioning for all their fleet and would cost them far more than the fine would.
Well, the plane is in another country. They can’t really sell something they are not in possession of.
I guess they could seize another plane.
The Lugano Covention means that EU court orders are almost always immediately valid across all EU and EEA member states, and while that leaves out countries like the UK and Serbia, their courts will usually confirm court orders from other European countries (and it would be a big diplomatic incident if they didn’t in this case). Equally important, Ireland is a signatory of the Lugano Convention through the EU, so Ryanair would have more to lose than planes really fast if they decided to be irrational.
Throw the CEO in jail and fine them a significant percent of their raw income