{"id":7462,"date":"2025-01-08T14:01:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T14:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/08\/ryanair-is-suing-disruptive-passenger-for-15000-in-damages\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T14:01:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T14:01:20","slug":"ryanair-is-suing-disruptive-passenger-for-15000-in-damages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/08\/ryanair-is-suing-disruptive-passenger-for-15000-in-damages\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryanair is suing \u2018disruptive passenger\u2019 for $15,000 in damages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Ryanair, Europe\u2019s biggest airline, is going after unruly passengers on its flights and has filed for \u20ac15,000 ($15,400) in damages from a passenger who disrupted a flight last year.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            The Ireland-based budget airline announced Wednesday that it has filed legal proceedings against the passenger, who, it said, disrupted a flight from Dublin to Lanzarote in Spain in April of last year.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            \u201cThis passenger\u2019s inexcusable behaviour forced this flight to divert to Porto where it was delayed overnight, causing 160 passengers to face unnecessary disruption,\u201d the airline said in a statement published online.    <\/p>\n<div class=\"related-content_full-width related-content_full-width--article\">\n<div class=\"related-content_full-width__image image__related-content\">            <\/div>\n<p class=\"related-content_full-width__headline\">            <span class=\"related-content_full-width__title-text\">Related article<\/span>      <span class=\"related-content_full-width__headline-text\">Unruly passengers were a problem before the pandemic. Now they\u2019re even worse<\/span>    <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            The carrier said it has filed a case in the Irish Circuit Court seeking to recover the costs of the delay, which included overnight accommodation, passenger expenses, and landing costs.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            There have been several reports of disruptive behavior on Ryanair flights in recent years.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            In November, the UK\u2019s Independent newspaper reported that a Ryanair flight was forced to alert authorities before landing in Tenerife, Spain after several passengers became disruptive and one person urinated in the aisle.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            A passenger who disrupted a Ryanair flight to Athens in 2020 was convicted last month in a Greek court and given a five-month suspended jail sentence, along with a \u20ac400 ($412) fine.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            \u201cThis demonstrates just one of the many consequences that passengers who disrupt flights will face as part of Ryanair\u2019s zero tolerance policy,\u201d a spokesperson for the airline said in a statement.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            \u201cWe plan to pursue civil action against disruptive passengers as a move towards eliminating disruptive passenger behaviour,\u201d the spokesperson added.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryanair, Europe\u2019s biggest airline, is going after unruly passengers on its flights and has filed for \u20ac15,000 ($15,400) in damages from a passenger who disrupted a flight last year. The Ireland-based budget airline announced Wednesday that it has filed legal proceedings against the passenger, who, it said, disrupted a flight from Dublin to Lanzarote in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}