[lbo-talk] Ryanair's Eurostar claim banned

Wojtek Sokolowski swsokolowski at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 21 18:18:10 PDT 2007


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6957882.stm

Ryanair has been banned from claiming its flight from London to Brussels is faster and cheaper than making the journey by Eurostar. The claim was misleading because it ignored time taken travelling from city centres to airports, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said.

Ryanair's advert compared its 70-minute flight to a 131-minute train journey.

But travelling from the heart of London and Brussels would add one hour and 45 minutes to the journey, the ASA said.

And costs for those journeys to and from airports at both ends of the journey meant that claims Ryanair's service was cheaper were also misleading.

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