Ryanair lashes UK Trading Standards Institute

Ryanair today criticised Britain's Trading Standards Institute for taking court action over Ryanair’s low fares on the day when British Airways announced it was more that doubling fuel surcharges to consumers.

Ryanair’s head of communications, Paul Fitzsimmons said: "The Trading Standards Institute’s time would be better spent fighting the anti-consumer rip-off of BA’s ever increasing fuel surcharges.

“Ryanair will continue to provide Europe’s lowest fares for British consumers, with guaranteed no fuel surcharges, while BA keeps adding surcharges and the Trading Standards Institute stands idly by.”