Ryanair Complains To EU About Air France

Europe's largest budget airline, Ryanair, said on Wednesday it had complained to the European Commission about what it called Air France's attempt to stop it from using an airport in Marseille.

Ryanair has already complained to Europe's top antitrust authority about Air France, claiming the French airline had received almost EUR1 billion (USD$1.26 billion) in state aid.

"This is the latest in a long line of abuses by Air France to protect their stranglehold on the French market," Ryanair's head of regulatory affairs, Jim Callaghan, said in a statement released in Brussels on Wednesday and first announced on Tuesday.

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