Ryanair allowed to call itself ‘Europe’s No.1 Airline’ despite last year’s cancellations

Ryanair is legally allowed to call itself ‘Europe’s No.1 airline’ despite complaints about widespread cancellations last year. TV and radio ads in September and October included voice-overs saying ‘Discover why more and more people are choosing Europe’s number one airline,’ and ‘Discover why we’re Europe’s number one airline’. The Advertising Standards Authority received complaints claiming the ads were misleading in light of the thousands of flights Ryanair cancelled last year. Ryanair said the ‘number one’ claim was a statement of fact, however, supported by a third-party statistical report – and therefore it wasn’t misleading. Their claim, the airline said, was based on the most recent IATA World Air Transport Statistics 2017 report for air travel in 2016. <br/>