Ryanair is being investigated over charging parents to sit with their children on flights.<\/p>\n
British Competition watchdog the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it will determine whether the practice is \u201cin line with consumer law\u201d.<\/p>\n
Ryanair requires at least one parent to sit with their children aged between two and 11, according to the watchdog.<\/p>\n
It does this through what the carrier calls a mandatory family seat, which typically costs about \u00a38 (\u20ac9.30) each way, the CMA said.<\/p>\n
Paying to reserve a seat is optional for other passengers.<\/p>\n
The CMA said it is investigating whether Ryanair\u2019s approach means \u201cparents are being charged for the airline to meet its child safety and disability-related obligations as set out under aviation rules\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryanair is being investigated over charging parents to sit with their children on flights. British Competition watchdog the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-494331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}