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Pádraig O'Ceidigh

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The Claire Byrne Show
The EU’s air passenger rights reform deal

And probably a major issue, the real catch is bin space.

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The Claire Byrne Show
The EU’s air passenger rights reform deal

Bin space cannot grow in the thing.

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The Claire Byrne Show
The EU’s air passenger rights reform deal

So you can expect a lot more bags to be gate-checked and to be paid a kind of penalty or a premium fee to put it in the hold.

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The Claire Byrne Show
The EU’s air passenger rights reform deal

And people will then have to...

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The Claire Byrne Show
The EU’s air passenger rights reform deal

wait around at their arrival airport to get that delivered to them off the carousel.

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The Claire Byrne Show
The EU’s air passenger rights reform deal

Exactly, exactly, exactly.

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The Claire Byrne Show
The EU’s air passenger rights reform deal

And what they'll have to do then be more vigilant at the gate and say, hold on a second, even though you're entitled to bring your bag on board, we cannot bring it on board because X number of people have gone through with their bags and we don't have space for your bag.

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The Claire Byrne Show
The EU’s air passenger rights reform deal

So you have to put it in the hold.

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The Claire Byrne Show
The EU’s air passenger rights reform deal

That's one of the unintended consequences.

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The Claire Byrne Show
The EU’s air passenger rights reform deal

The seating changes are interesting.

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The Claire Byrne Show
The EU’s air passenger rights reform deal

I very, very much support the idea that there's no fee for children under 14 to sit beside a parent, and the same for disabled passengers and their carers.

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The Claire Byrne Show
The EU’s air passenger rights reform deal

That's really, really important.

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The Claire Byrne Show
The EU’s air passenger rights reform deal

What happened here, Clare, is that back in the year, and fairness, like,

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The Claire Byrne Show
The EU’s air passenger rights reform deal

Ryanair were the first to develop this.

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The Claire Byrne Show
The EU’s air passenger rights reform deal

They say there's a fare of 19 euros, 29, 39 euros, but that does not include a seat.

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The Claire Byrne Show
The EU’s air passenger rights reform deal

You pay for a seat and then you pay for more and more and more.

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The Claire Byrne Show
The EU’s air passenger rights reform deal

So there's a lot of extras onto it.

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The Claire Byrne Show
The EU’s air passenger rights reform deal

But having said that, and I did a little bit of kind of an analysis and studies before this conversation now, and European fares are up between 10 and 15% on pre-COVID levels, which actually is below general inflation.

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The Claire Byrne Show
The EU’s air passenger rights reform deal

So in actual fact,

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The Claire Byrne Show
The EU’s air passenger rights reform deal

We're getting a reasonably good deal from airlines, in particular Ryanair, quite frankly.

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