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Four years after the EC Commission decided that the Walloon Region of Belgium had provided illegal State Aid to Ryanair in respect of Ryanair’s development of new routes and the basing of aircraft at Brussels South Charleroi Airport, the CFI heard Ryanair’s Appeal against the Decision on March 12th 2008. Ryanair’s case before the Court is that the EC Commission misapplied the State Aid rules to agreements entered into between Regional Airports such as Charleroi and Low Cost Airlines such as Ryanair, ignored the evidence available to them of similar lawful arrangements made between privately owned airports and Ryanair, wrongly refused to admit that publicly owned airports could invoke the Market Economy Investor Principle so as to compete on a level playing field and distorted the Business Plans of the Airport which showed that such an investment would be profitable.
John Swift QC and Josh Holmes were brought in to the case for the purpose of arguing at the Oral Hearing, instructed by A&L Goodbody of Dublin on behalf of Ryanair.
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John Swift QC
Josh Holmes