The Irish budget airline Ryanair has threatened to leave Belgium as a base if the EU rules that it received illegal state aid.
Ryanair’s chief executive Michael O'Leary said: "We will just move... to other bases", according to the BBC, and it appears that the airline is already in negotiations with two other European airports.
The EU is currently examining the legality of subsidies to Ryanair from Belgian local government to use Charleroi airport, a small airport about 80km to the...
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