Ryanair in trouble again

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The Spanish justice system has made yet another ruling against the low-cost Irish airline, Ryanair, declaring the airline’s obligation on under-14’s to travel with a DNI identity card as null and abusive.
Mercantile Court 9 in Barcelona has ruled that the airline’s demand that under 14 year old have their own DNI or Passport to travel between airports in Spain as ‘null and abusive’.

The court rules that the obligation fails to meet the National Air Security Plan PNS, which rules that the Libro de Familia is sufficient documentation for children to fly with their parents.
The case came as a result of the airline refusing to accept a three year old family member on a flight from Barcelona to Fuerteventura.

The judge ordered that the airline return the consequent expenses of the family at 1,469 € and said Ryanair cannot demand additional documents to those established by the PNS.

Ryanair had claimed that it has its business based in Ireland, and that if follows the security regulations of that country, and there is nothing in EU law to stop it establishing rules on the identification of passengers. They claimed the Libro de Familia was not sufficient as it contained no photo of the child.

The ruling comes after another sentence from the Mercantile Court 1 in Barcelona, criticising the airline’s 40 € charge for the printing of boarding passes at airport.