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FIGHT EU BAN ON LOW FARES
PROTECT YOUR RIGHT TO LOW FARES
Yesterday’s disastrous decision by the EU Commission in the Charleroi case has effectively banned low fares as it will force public airports to increase their prices and therefore air fares to ordinary European consumers will increase. This damaging ruling also risks the viability of many current low fare routes around Europe.
The complaint in this case was brought by a high cost airport (Brussels Zaventem) and has been supported by the high fares airlines in their attempt to limit competition from low fares airlines and to increase prices to consumers.
The only ones that will benefit from the Commission’s bad decision in Charleroi are the high cost airports and high fares airlines.
We are calling on all of our customers to tell your national Commissioner(s) and Transport Minister what you think of this anti-competitive and anti-consumer decision.
The Commission has completely ignored the interests of competition and consumers in this decision and has opted to protect the vested interests of their high charging national airlines.
Please contact your Transport Ministers and Commissioner(s) and give them a piece of your mind.
United Kingdom
Alistair Darling - Minister for Transport
Phone: 00 44 207 944 8300
E-Mail:
[email protected]
Neil Kinnock - Vice President of the European Commission
Phone: 00 32 2 296 1800
E-Mail:
[email protected]
Chris Patten - European Commissioner
Phone: 00 32 2 298 1200
E-Mail:
[email protected]
Ireland
Seamus Brennan - Minister for Transport
Phone: 00 353 1 604 1077
E-Mail:
[email protected]
David Byrne - European Commission