Ryanair Guarantees No Fuel Surcharges

European low-fare airline Ryanair has renewed its guarantee of “no fuel surcharges ever” after British Airways was fined GBP121.5 million by the UK Office of Fair Trading for inflating fuel surcharges.

Ryanair claims to be the only airline to guarantee that it will never apply a fuel surcharge, and British Airways’ fuel surcharge of GBP43 is over 40% more expensive than Ryanair’s average fare of GBP30.

Peter Sherrard, Ryanair’s head of communications, said: “As the OFT has confirmed, BA has been ripping off passengers for years by price fixing and working with other airlines to inflate fuel surcharges. Since BA first introduced its fuel surcharge in 2004, the price of oil has doubled, yet BA has increased its fuel surcharges seventeen-fold to GBP43 per one-way flight.”