Inside Spain: Inherited poverty and Ryanair pulls out of small airports

Inside Spain: Inherited poverty and Ryanair pulls out of small airports

In this week’s Inside Spain we look at how the country has Europe’s second highest poverty rate passed on from grandparents to grandchildren, and how Ryanair has begun to make good on its threats of cancelling routes to smaller regional airports.

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The situation of Ryanair in Spain remains complicated.The Irish company is the face of the complaints against low cost airlines for charging passengers for hand baggage, leaving some Spanish routes on the grounds that they were not profitable in the face of the quotas that AENA requires airlines to maintain their presence at those airports and the clash with the Spanish government, in particular with the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mob…