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Passengers’ Bill of Rights

April 22, 2010 - Ryan Air's Michael O'Leary has called the EU travel rights rules ``absurd'' and discriminatory against airlines.


April 22, 2010  By Drew McCarthy

Ryan Air's Michael O'Leary has called the EU travel rights
rules “absurd'' and discriminatory against airlines because ferry,
rail and bus companies only have to pay for the price of a passenger's ticket.

Yet there are voices in both the U.S. and Canada pushing for a similar airline passengers' bill of rights here. How many small Canadian regional carriers would survive under such discriminatory legislation?

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