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Ryanair seizes on Lufthansa victory in fight over Air France Covid state aid in EU court

By Natalie McNelis ( May 22, 2023, 16:12 GMT | Insight) -- Ryanair wasted no time in capitalizing on a recent victory against German aid to Lufthansa in its EU court hearing today challenging similar Covid-19 era French aid to rival Air France. The low-cost carrier pointed the judges of the EU’s General Court to a number of key parallels between the two cases, particularly in the requirement that the beneficiary of the aid should not have been able to raise the money on its own and on the inadequacy of slots to assess market power and compensate for the recapitalization.Ryanair wasted no time in capitalizing on a recent victory against German aid to Lufthansa in its EU court hearing today challenging similar Covid-19 era French aid to rival Air France. ...

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