US EditionSpain Busts Budget Airlines for Luggage ‘Scam’
- Spain's government is cracking down on budget airlines Wizzair and Transavia in 2025 for hidden luggage charges.
- In November 2024, major low-cost carriers were collectively fined €179 million by the Spanish government for unfair pricing tactics, including extra fees for cabin baggage, family seat bookings, and boarding pass printing.
- Minister Pablo Bustinduy accused airlines of illegal conduct including charging for hand luggage, boarding passes, and penalizing families seating together.
- Bustinduy emphasized that any business involved in similar unlawful activities will face identical consequences to safeguard consumers in Spain.
- Spain insists this marks only the beginning of efforts to fight systemic consumer rights violations and criticizes EU institutions’ tolerance of corporate misconduct.
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The Government Will Extend to Wizzair and Transavia the Fines Already Imposed on Ryanair or Vueling for Collecting Carry-on Baggage
Bustinduy raises to seven the companies already fined, number that is completed with Easyjet, Norwegian and Volotea. All of them, moreover, have been denounced by the European Consumers Organisation Read
Baggage fee charging: seven airlines under scrutiny by associations
Paris – About fifteen European associations, including UFC-Que Choisir and CLCV for France, have asked the European Commission to launch an investigation into the hand luggage charging policy of seven low-cost airlines. EasyJet, Norwegian, Ryanair, Transavia, Volotea, Vueling, and Wizzair “charge undue fees to consumers,” accuses the Confederation of Consumption, Housing, and Living Environment (CLCV), a stakeholder in this initiative alongside …
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