Munster fans’ cheap flights deals threatened by legal action

HUNDREDS of Munster rugby fans heading to Italy for the Treviso game later this month may have to make alternative travel plans after claims that their tour operator has been conducting business illegally.

It emerged yesterday that the Commission of Aviation Regulation (CAR) is set to prosecute the Limerick organiser of the cheap flight packages, Pamela Hickey, for not having a valid tour operator licence.

Several hundred supporters have already travelled to other Heineken European Cup away games in Gloucester and Bourgoin on flights organised by Ms Hickey through a group called the Munster Sporting Club (MSC).