CAA backs Ryanair on Gatwick charges

Ryanair 737-800. Photo: Courtesy, Boeing. UK Civil Aviation Authority instructed Gatwick Airport Ltd. to implement a more transparent and non-discriminatory pricing structure for check-in and baggage processing by April 2012 and consult its users when revising the pricing system. The ruling follows a complaint lodged to CAA by Ryanair in 2009 against what the LCC called London Gatwick’s “opaque pricing system” and, more specifically, the lack of information on how ...