Yesterday’s disastrous decision by the EU Commission in the Charleroi case has effectively banned low fares as it will force public airports to increase their prices and therefore air fares to ordinary European consumers will increase. This damaging ruling also risks the viability of many current low fare routes around Europe. The complaint in this case was brought by a high cost airport (Brussels Zaventem) and has been supported by the high fares airlines in their attempt to limit competition from low fares airlines and to increase prices to consumers. The only ones that will benefit from the Commission’s bad...