{"id":234101,"date":"2025-07-03T07:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T07:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/234101\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T07:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T07:19:11","slug":"spain-probes-a-sixth-budget-airline-over-cabin-luggage-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/234101\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain probes a sixth budget airline over cabin luggage fees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">MADRID (Reuters) -Spain&#8217;s Ministry of Consumer Affairs said on Thursday it has launched an investigation into a sixth low-cost airline over practices such as charging for larger cabin bags.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The ministry, which did not name the carrier, has already imposed fines totalling a combined 179 million euros ($211.24 million) on five other airlines over such practices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">A Spanish court temporarily suspended the fines on three of those airlines &#8211; Ryanair, Norwegian Air and IAG-owned Vueling &#8211; while the matter is under judicial review following legal challenges by those carriers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The two other airlines fined were easyJet and privately owned Volotea. The ministry said the latest case could still take months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The ministry has said the airlines violated customers&#8217; rights by charging for larger carry-on bags, as well as for selecting seats and printing out boarding passes and by not allowing cash payments at check-in desks or to buy items on board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The five airlines were allowed to continue charging for larger cabin bags and for passengers choosing specific seats during the legal proceedings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Ryanair and Industry group ALA have said the fines are groundless as the practices are common in most of the European Union.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">($1 = 0.8474 euros)<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reporting by Corina Pons; Editing by Susan Fenton)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADRID (Reuters) -Spain&#8217;s Ministry of Consumer Affairs said on Thursday it has launched an investigation into a sixth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[91708,2000,299,91707,91709,1339,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-234101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-cabin-bags","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-ministry-of-consumer-affairs","12":"tag-norwegian-air","13":"tag-ryanair","14":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114788090772106327","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}