The fines will be a “minimum” punishment, and it will continue to seek civil damages for compensation for the costs incurred in more serious cases.
Ryanair, Europe’s largest airline, announced Thursday that it will impose fines starting at €500 ($579) on passengers whose disruptive behavior leads to their removal from a flight.
The budget carrier said it hopes the fine will serve as “a deterrent to eliminate this unacceptable behavior onboard our aircraft.”
“It is unacceptable that passengers are made to suffer unnecessary disruption because of one unruly passenger’s behavior,” a Ryanair spokesperson said.
And how are they gonna make you pay it?
Can I also fine Ryanair for their unruly rules?
It’s such a shitty airline anyways, had bad experience both times (issues because of carry on luggage, name on ticket etc) - not directly to me, but this always caused delays on my two flights, one of which required them to unload cargo again. I only used them because they were the only one flying a certain connection, they weren’t even particularly cheap; but after the second incident, I just used a different airport because I’m not putting up with such a shitty airline.
Interesting coincidence: Ryanair raises its fines right after the EU eases compensation rules for delayed flights. Almost like they were waiting for it.
Interesting indeed. In Australia, a company cannot ‘fine’ any citizen.
Those carpark fines at Wilson’s parking, etc. Totally illegal. Proven again and again.
What really irks me is that ConnectEast/Transurban somehow get away with it. If you miss a $2 toll they’ll get the police to send you a $150 fine for it.
What’s worse is that their systems actively block you from paying the toll afterwards.
Actually, the most fucked thing above all is these companies are using government resources to protect their revenue stream whilst paying zero taxes.
I almost copped the fine once in a brand new car that I hadn’t assigned my tag to yet. The only reason I managed to dodge the fine is because Transurban had me fly from Melbourne to Sydney with zero notice to oversee the deployment of their air quality monitoring systems in the M5 tunnel. Because, ya know, they couldn’t open the tunnel unless it was operational. I was driving to the airport at 5am. For them.
They can ban you from using them as a business, which is often what these fines are about.
A lot of clinics have failed to attend fees which are pretty much kept not to ever collect, but prevent that patient ever booking again.
Knowing RyanAir they’ll treat it like an extra. Taking too long to put your bag away, unruly, fine. Going to the toilet more than once, abhorrent, fine.
RyanAir won’t let up with these constant attacks on Lance Stroll.
