I wish to refer to my comment that was published on page 15 in TMIS of 21 June. In paragraph 2, column 3, towards the bottom of the paragraph, I wrote that: “It was well known within the airport community Europe-wide and to the regulators in Brussels, not to mention the European Court of Justice that found Ryanair guilty of infringing on or two regulations, here and there”.

I sincerely wish to apologise to Ryanair for having said that it was the European Court of Justice that found them guilty of some infringements. This was not the case. In fact it was Chelmsford Crown Court that, in March 2005, had found them guilty of six breaches of the Consumer Protection Act by not including the words “excluding tax” under the advertised fares on its home page. The other case I was referring to was when in February 2004, they were found guilty by a central London court over a wheelchair charge of £18 that Ryanair had charged a disabled passenger.

Joseph R. Darmanin

ex-director of the Malta International Airport