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Ryanair appeals TAP's EUR462 million Covid compensation package at EU courts

By Nicholas Hirst
  • 16 Aug 2021 09:21
  • 18 Aug 2021 05:52
Ryanair has appealed the EU's approval of a Portuguese compensation package of 462 million euros ($540 million) for Transportes Aéreos Portugueses to mitigate losses due to Covid-19 travel restrictions, MLex has learned.
The Irish low-cost airline said that the EU's state aid regulator was too generous to the Portuguese flag

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Nicholas Hirst

Chief Correspondent


Nicholas covers EU merger review and antitrust investigations for Mlex in Brussels. He previously wrote about EU affairs for Politico Europe, European Voice and PaRR. After earning an LLM in European law from the College of Europe in Bruges, he spent a year working in the competition practice of a leading competition law firm in Brussels 2009-10. He graduated in modern European languages from Oxford University in 2006.

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