CELEX: 62019CN0028
Language: en
Date: 2019-01-16 00:00:00
Title: Case C-28/19: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio di Stato (Italy) lodged on 16 January 2019 — Ryanair Ltd, Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato ‒ Antitrust v Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato ‒ Antitrust and Others

13.5.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 164/12
            
         
      Request for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio di Stato (Italy) lodged on 16 January 2019 — Ryanair Ltd, Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato ‒ Antitrust v Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato ‒ Antitrust and Others
      (Case C-28/19)
      (2019/C 164/14)
      Language of the case: Italian
      
         Referring court
      
      Consiglio di Stato
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Appellants: Ryanair Ltd, Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato ‒ Antitrust
      
         Respondents: Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato ‒ Antitrust, Ryanair Ltd, Ryanair DAC
      
         Questions referred
      
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Is the second sentence of Article 23(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1008/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 September 2008 on common rules for the operation of air services in the Community (1) to be interpreted as meaning that an online check-in fee and an ‘administration fee’ for credit card purchases, which are additional to the price of the ticket, and the VAT applied to air fares and to optional supplements for national flights, fall within the category of unavoidable, foreseeable or optional price supplements?
               
            
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                  Is the fourth sentence of Article 23(1) of Regulation No 1008/2008 to be interpreted in the sense that the word ‘optional’ covers price supplements which the majority of consumers are able to avoid?
               
            
         (1)  Regulation (EC) No 1008/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 September 2008 on common rules for the operation of air services in the Community (Recast) (OJ 2008 L 293, p. 3).