Ray ManaghA Brussels-based EU executive, with ties to Ireland, has failed in a bid to legally force Ryanair pay him compensation for a missed flight just over a year ago. In his appeal to the Circuit Court, Murphy claimed Ryanair had wrongly failed to facilitate him at the Brussels airport. Ms Jessica Brady, Ryanair’s ground operations front-of-house procedures and training manager, told the court that a passenger could not check in 40 minutes before departure. “Once the scheduled departure time minus 40 minutes closure of the check-in is triggered, that process cannot be restarted,” she said. Mr Murphy is head of programme at Inter Pares Parliaments in Partnership, office of International IDEA to the EU, Avenue des Arts, Brussels.
