Airlines challenge travel tax ruling in EU court

The rival airlines are both taking a case against the European Commission over its ruling in 2012 that a lower tax rate for short-haul flights was unfair and that Ireland should seek to recover the €8 difference per passenger from Ryanair, Aer Lingus, and Aer Arann.
At stake for the airlines is a multimillion-euro tax bill which they claim can no longer be passed on to their customers.