ENAC BLOCKS RYANAIR’S LOW FARE SERVICES

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Source: Ryanair

ENAC BLOCKS RYANAIR’S LOW FARE SERVICES

Ryanair was today forced to cancel its low fares flights between Rome Ciampino and Alghero from the 2nd – 24th May inclusive due to ENAC’s (Italian National Civil Aviation Authority) refusal to allow Ryanair to operate these flights. The Italian authoritiy has stopped these flights, by unlawfully imposing a public service obligation (PSO) on the Rome to Alghero route, thus preventing low fares and competition from continuing between Italy and Sardinia

Ryanair has been operating successfully on this route for the last year, with over 100,000 passengers flying at fares of less than €40. However, ENAC is now trying to restrict competition and raise fares by allowing only high fare Italian carriers to operate this route which is illegal under European law.

The effect of this highway robbery by ENAC will be

Ryanair’s low fare service will be forced to cease
It will be replaced by an Italian airline charging much higher fares
Sardinian citizens/visitors will be forced to pay these much higher fares

Traffic on the route will decline

The Italian tax payer will subsidize this highway robbery through PSO
Ryanair sincerely apologises that we will not be allowed by ENAC to operate on this route until we have our appeal in the Administrative Court in Rome on the 11 th of May, after which we hope the court will overturn ENAC’s illegal decision and allow Ryanair to continue to offer its year round low fare services on this route.

Given that ENAC has caused this route cancellation through its illegal actions, we invite you to write, expressing your opposition to this highway robbery, to:

Mr. Silvano Manera
Director General of ENAC
Viale del Castro Pretorio 118
00185 Rome
Italy

Tel ( + 39) 06 44596308
Fax ( + 39) 06 44596301
E-mail [email protected]

We also invite passengers booked on flights affected by this route cancellation to click on the link below to submit a Refund Application Form for a full refund of all monies paid. Refunds will be processed back to the original form of payment in 7 working days of application.

Click here to apply for a refund:

http://frd.ie/refweb.asp

We again sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused by this route cancellation and hope that we will be able to restart low fare flights on the Rome Ciampino to Alghero route once this illegal decision by ENAC has been overturned.