Indeed, the closure is 100 % Ryanair style. The announcement of the official closure of the airport by CRL-director David Gering (aka sales manager Benelux for Ryanair) made it legally possible for Ryanair to reshuttle or cancel flights and/or rebook passengers at Ryanair's wishes.Acid-drop wrote:They closed it to not take any risk, ryanair style.airazurxtror wrote:According to the newpapers websites, Charleroi is closed today.
BRU is working decently...
David Gering surely knew why he closed the airport: if the airport wasn't shut down and if there was a strike by private suppliers (handling agent, fuel supplier, catering), Ryanair would be held responsabile for the pax: rebooking, meals and drink, hotel accommodation if necessary. All at Ryanair's expenses! And more important: all cancelled pax (inbound/outbound) would then also be entitled for a moral indemnity as per European Rule 261/2004 (example 150 Euro p/p for a cancelled flight to Italy).
That's why Jetairfly has moved to Maastricht and Cologne: in case the luggage handlers at BRU would go on strike, Jetairfly can't find enough own people at/near the airport who don't want to screw up the passengers and who are willing to load/offload the luggage for their well deserved holiday.
(Jet Airways is avoiding the EU-indemnity because their AMS-ops stay within the four hour limit for long haul flights)