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|Website=https://www.ryanair.com
|Website=https://www.ryanair.com
|Description=Ryanair is an Irish ultra-low-cost airline.
|Description=Ryanair is an Irish ultra-low-cost airline.
}}Ryanair is an Irish ultra-low-cost airline operating in over 40 countries.
}}[[wikipedia:Ryanair|Ryanair]] is an Irish ultra-low-cost airline operating in over 40 countries.


==Consumer-impact summary==
==Consumer-impact summary==
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====Greenwashing====
====Greenwashing====
The press release quotes the CEO that the measure would lead to "faster, smarter, and greener” travel. Saving resources in a mostly irrelevant area that barely contriubtes to the environmental impact is a common strategy used by companies with a high resource footprint (such as Apple moving to more environementally friendly packaging while the main product is still a repair-unfriendly disposable electronic item made with rare earth minerals<!-- Not sure if referencing the Apple example makes sense here. Maybe we should have a dedicated page of common greenwashing techniques we can link to from individual incidents. -->). The vast majority of the emissions of an airline are generated by fuel combustion and energy consumption by the airports.
The press release quotes the CEO that the measure would lead to "faster, smarter, and greener” travel. Saving resources in a mostly irrelevant area that barely contributes to the environmental impact is a [[Greenwashing|common strategy]] used by companies with a high resource footprint (such as Apple moving to more environmentally friendly packaging while the main product is still a repair-unfriendly disposable electronic item made with rare earth minerals<!-- Not sure if referencing the Apple example makes sense here. Maybe we should have a dedicated page of common greenwashing techniques we can link to from individual incidents. -->). The vast majority of the emissions of an airline are generated by fuel combustion and energy consumption by the airports.


===Cheap prices with excessive surcharges===
===Cheap prices with excessive surcharges===
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==See also==
==See also==
{{Ph-C-SA}}
==References==
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{reflist}}


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