Libel apology for Ryanair

Ryanair has accepted a public apology over a newspaper claim that it had restricted the amount of fuel carried by its aircraft to the legal minimum.

The airline brought the libel action against Independent Digital News and Media Limited at London’s High Court over a story which appeared in an online edition of The Independent.

Entitled “Low-fuel flights put lives at risk”, it incorrectly said that Ryanair had “restricted the amount of fuel (their aircraft carry) to the legal minimum”.