France Referred To Court Over Airline State Aid

The European Commission has referred France to the European Court of Justice for failing to recover state aid from Ryanair and Transavia for contractual and marketing arrangements with French airports.

The Commission decided in July 2014 that France should recover close to EUR€10 million in total because it found that the airlines paid less than the additional costs linked to their presence at the airports.

However, the Commission said that France had failed to recover the aid within the required period of four months.