Soaking customers: Dublin Airport


	Soaking customers: Dublin Airport

Antara

5-6-2009 11:38 AM

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plastic bags, dublin airport, overcharging, ryanair

Antara says:

A spokeswoman for Ryanair said “this is a blatant example of the DAA making a bags of things and overcharging passengers”.

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5-6-2009 12:57 PM

carrerinyes

The kettle calling the pot....

5-6-2009 7:21 PM

Antara

lol, they are going to nickel n dime us to death carrie!

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