A DEFAMATION action brought by Ryanair against the independent newspaper was settled out of court yesterday.
The airline sued the newspaper over an article, published in august, reporting pilot claims that the airline's fuel policy may have put passengers at risk. in a statement read out in the high court in London yesterday, lawyers representing independent digital news and Media agreed that its story had been factually inaccurate and repeated an apology that it had previously published.
Ryanair's Belfast-based lawyer Paul Tweed said: "The independent's acknowledgement of Ryanair's 29 year safety record and their safety standards being on a par with the safest in europe, follows other statements issued by the Belfast Telegraph, irish independent, irish daily Mail, Mail online and The Mirror". He said the airline would continue to pursue legal action in the High Court in Dublin against Channel 4, which broadcast a dispatches programme called Ryanair: Secrets from the Cockpit, and the programme's maker Blakeway.