Wed, 22 Feb 2012, Riga Airport fined for discriminatory pricing…
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February 22, 2012
Thus, by applying discriminatory fees, the airline’s actions negatively affected airBaltic competitiveness with Ryanair.
“According to leaked documents, it appears that Ryanair was paying only 1 Euro per aircraft serviced at Riga airport, while airBaltic was charged up to 500 Euros. It is unacceptable that a foreign carrier has and still receives preferential treatment paying hundreds of times lower fees than airBaltic. Moreover, in early 2010, Riga airport doubled the ground handling fees to airBaltic, increased transit passenger fees, landing fees and introduced a completely new infrastructure fee,” then airBaltic CEO ...