{"id":405,"date":"2003-08-27T14:01:57","date_gmt":"2003-08-27T14:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2003\/08\/ryanair_suspend\/"},"modified":"2003-08-27T14:01:57","modified_gmt":"2003-08-27T14:01:57","slug":"ryanair_suspend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/ryanair_suspend\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryanair Suspends Flights to Strasbourg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an interesting turn of events, Ryanair has <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/business\/3182609.stm\">suspended<\/a> flights to Strasbourg after a court launched an investigation into Ryanair receiving 1.4m Euros from the local Bas-Rhin Chamber of Commerce.<br \/>\nI must admit that I&#8217;ve always seen something like this coming. Ryanair gets payments from a number of smaller regional airports around Europe in return for running flights to those locations. These can be billed as marketing payments, although most of the marketing I see is just lists of locations rather than anything too specific for a region.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euireland.ie\/news\/trans\/1202\/ryanair.htm\">European commission<\/a> enquiry <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/story\/0,3604,1029823,00.html\">underway<\/a> at the moment examining payments and benefits received by Ryanair for using Charleroi (or Brussels &#8211; Charleroi as Ryanair term it. It&#8217;s not exactly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trabel.com\/belgie-imap.htm\">close<\/a> to Brussels however) as a hub airport. There could be up to 17 other deals to inspect.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,630-793558,00.html\">interesting piece<\/a> in today&#8217;s Times about this practice as well.<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t see that in the long term, this sort of practice can continue. Surely it&#8217;s not that far off taking back handed bribes?<br \/>\nRyanair themselves of course don&#8217;t quite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ryanair.com\/press\/2003\/aug\/rte-en-260803.html\">frame it<\/a> in the same way&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interesting turn of events, Ryanair has suspended flights to Strasbourg after a court launched an investigation into Ryanair receiving 1.4m Euros from the local Bas-Rhin Chamber of Commerce. I must admit that I&#8217;ve always seen something like this coming. Ryanair gets payments from a number of smaller regional airports around Europe in return [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}