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.
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.