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Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2018 5:24 pm
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French bailiffs have grounded a Ryanair plane and all its passengers in Bordeaux following a row over unpaid debts.
The Boeing 737 belonging to the Irish budget airline was due to head off to London on Thursday evening, but officials from the Charente department won a court order preventing it from moving.
"It was stopped at Bordeaux Airport, so preventing 149 passengers from travelling," said a local source.
"They were all due to go to Stansted Airport, but instead were held up for five hours before taking another plane."
The Charente officials claim that Ryanair owes them the equivalent of just over £450,000.
This debt relates to French subsidies paid to Ryanair to provide flights from Angouleme, the capital of the Charente department, to London between 2008 and 2009.
The Charente officials claim that Ryanair owes them the equivalent of just over £450,000
The European Commission has since claimed the subsidies were illegal, and ordered Ryanair to pay them all back.
Around half have since been paid, and the £450,000 figures represents the remainder, said the source.
French airport official Didier Villat told Sud Ouest newspaper: "To my knowledge it's the first time a Ryanair plane has been seized in this way.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/travel/news/ry ... s-13562294
French bailiffs have grounded a Ryanair plane and all its passengers in Bordeaux following a row over unpaid debts.
The Boeing 737 belonging to the Irish budget airline was due to head off to London on Thursday evening, but officials from the Charente department won a court order preventing it from moving.
"It was stopped at Bordeaux Airport, so preventing 149 passengers from travelling," said a local source.
"They were all due to go to Stansted Airport, but instead were held up for five hours before taking another plane."
The Charente officials claim that Ryanair owes them the equivalent of just over £450,000.
This debt relates to French subsidies paid to Ryanair to provide flights from Angouleme, the capital of the Charente department, to London between 2008 and 2009.
The Charente officials claim that Ryanair owes them the equivalent of just over £450,000
The European Commission has since claimed the subsidies were illegal, and ordered Ryanair to pay them all back.
Around half have since been paid, and the £450,000 figures represents the remainder, said the source.
French airport official Didier Villat told Sud Ouest newspaper: "To my knowledge it's the first time a Ryanair plane has been seized in this way.