Diverted flight did not have a fuel shortage

YOUR report headlined ‘Spanish authorities investigate incident involving Ryanair jet’ (June 3) wrongly suggests there is an issue with Ryanair’s fuel policy.

All Ryanair aircraft are fuelled in accordance with regulations set out by the IAA. All flights carry, as a minimum, taxiing fuel, trip fuel, diversion fuel, reserve fuel, holding fuel and contingency fuel for every journey.

The aircraft in question departed with considerably more fuel than legally required for the flight plan and landed with almost 30 minutes of reserve fuel remaining.