Ryanair Will Appeal Aix-en-Provence Court Ruling & Fine
The 2006 French Decree was specifically introduced as further state protection for the loss making Air France, and to limit competition to high fare Air France from lower cost airlines, including Ryanair, Easyjet and Cityjet, on French domestic routes.
Since the crew operating Ryanair’s flights to and from Marseille worked for an airline with its registered office in Ireland and spent their working day on Irish registered aircraft, they are considered to be working principally in Ireland and not in France. Ryanair crews were correctly working under Irish contracts of employment and paying Irish social insurance in accordance with the applicable European employment and social security laws. Ryanair does not believe that the 2006 Decree applied to its operations in Marseille but following decisions against other airlines such as Easyjet and Cityjet, it expects a negative ruling at this first stage of these proceedings in France. Ryanair confirms that it will appeal any such negative ruling and any attempt by the French authorities to seek payment of social insurance payments which have already been paid in full in Ireland.
Ryanair highlighted that once these proceedings were launched in the French courts, it immediately closed its year-round operational base in Marseille. This case therefore covers the period 2006 to 2010 only and not the summer only operation carried out at Marseille since April 2011 which have a different base structure.
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