Spain has fined four budget airlines including Ryanair and Easyjet over €150 million for charging passengers for hand luggage and other practices deemed abusive, consumer groups said.
The carriers were also fined by the consumer rights ministry for forcing passengers to pay to choose seats so they can sit beside their children or other dependents and not accepting cash when selling tickets at airports, consumer rights association Facua said.
"It has been almost six years of battling to get the authorities to act against practices whereby airlines have been illegally inflating their profits and we have finally succeeded," Facua secretary general Ruben Sanchez said in a statement.Ryanair, which was the first to start charging extra for hand luggage in November 2018, was hit with the biggest fine, Facua said without specifying the amount.
The airlines will appeal the fines, which"seem to us absolutely disproportionate", the head of Spanish airlines industry group ALA, Javier Gandara, told a news conference.
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