{"id":238208,"date":"2025-07-04T19:33:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T19:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/238208\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T19:33:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T19:33:12","slug":"spain-sanctions-sixth-low-cost-airline-for-abusive-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/238208\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain sanctions sixth low-cost airline for &#8216;abusive practices&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Spanish consumer affairs ministry has sanctioned a <strong>sixth low-cost airline<\/strong> for potential &#8220;abusive practices,&#8221; such as charging for carry-on luggage or adding a cost to book next-to seats for people with disabilities or minors, as a statement from the ministry cites.<\/p>\n<p>Politicians did not announce the name of the <strong>sixth sanctioned company<\/strong>, unlike last November, when they sanctioned five different airlines at once. Last time, the ministry fined Vueling, EasyJet, Norwegian, Volotea, and Ryanair a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catalannews.com\/business\/item\/spain-fines-five-low-cost-airlines-179m-for-abusive-practices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">total of \u20ac179 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The company has also been sanctioned for &#8220;omitting <strong>deceptive information<\/strong> and lack of clarity&#8221; on their prices, both on their website and on third-party websites.<\/p>\n<p>The General Consumer Directorate, in charge of the sanction, stated that fines vary between \u20ac10,001 and \u20ac100,000 if it is considered severe, or <strong>between \u20ac100,001 and \u20ac1,000,000<\/strong> if very severe.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry bases its decision on a ruling by the <strong>European Court of Justice <\/strong>from 2014 that bans airline companies from charging extra for carry-on luggage.<\/p>\n<p>In November, Ryanair received the <strong>highest penalty of \u20ac107,775,777<\/strong>, followed by Vueling (\u20ac39,264,412), Easy jet (\u20ac29,094,441), Norwegian (\u20ac1,610,001), and Volotea (\u20ac1,189,000.99).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Spanish consumer affairs ministry has sanctioned a sixth low-cost airline for potential &#8220;abusive practices,&#8221; such as charging&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-238208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114796639509303460","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238208","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=238208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}