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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 | 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== | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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