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Ryanair wants IAG airport slots in Spain and to see Lufthansa cede more slots in Germany, Austria

By Nicholas Hirst
  • 25 May 2023 12:24
  • 25 May 2023 16:12
Ryanair is interested in slot divestments at Madrid and Barcelona airports that are likely to be required if the EU regulator approves IAG's merger with Air Europa, according to its chief executive, who said it was unlikely to be IAG's first choice for a remedy taker.

"We would expect to be

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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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