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[Article] Charleroi airport seeks money from Ryanair

09-09-2004 7:40am

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Charleroi airport seeks money from Ryanair
September 08, 2004 14:47

Belgian airport Charleroi wants to be reimbursed for some of the aid it gave Ryanair that was later declared illegal by the European Commission, airport chief Laurent Jossart said today.

'A letter is going to be sent shortly to Ryanair to ask it to repay an amount of about €4m,' Jossart said in an interview published in the daily La Libre Belgique.

At a news conference in Brussels, David Gering, Ryanair sales director for the Benelux countries Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, refused to confirm the amount of the reimbursement sought by the airport.

But he noted that it must be defined by September 15 and that Ryanair 'would respect the law,' signaling that it would reimburse the airport while awaiting the outcome of its appeal of the decision.

The commission, the European Union's executive body, ruled in February that approximately €4m out of €15m of incentives paid to Ryanair by Charleroi, the airport south of Brussels that is owned by the Walloon government, amounted to illegal state aid.

The commission had not set the amount of aid to be reimbursed, which was to be calculated on the basis of information from the parties involved.

Ryanair appealed the ruling in May at the European Court of Justice. Ryanair's Gering said he saw 'enormous potential' in the Charleroi airport if Ryanair reaches an agreement with the Walloon authorities and the airport on a new schedule of airport services fees.

'We think of our airplanes as buses with wings which should not have to pay to stop at such and such stop,' Gering said. 'So much stimulus is brought to the local economy that one shouldn't have to pay,' he added.

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