ROME– Ryanair continues its "extortionate" malpractises at Rome’s Ciampino Airport notwithstanding recent EU curbs on its frequently bogus “low cost” pricing policies and scandalous small print clauses, travellers say.

 While in British airports such as Manchester Ryanair staff will print boarding passes for passengers who have checked in online within the required time limit at Ciampino instead surley Ryanair staff last week-end demanded a swingeing 70 euros from budget travellers and students returning to Britain eking out their grants merely for printing out a boarding pass.

 Surely the most unfriendly and unpopular airline in Europe, Ryanair evidently has rigged its website so that it is often impossible to print a boarding pass, meaning passengers are vulnerable to a surcharge that can cost more than the original “low cost” ticket. Italian police at Ciampino shrug their shoulders when asked about Ryanair’s dirty tricks, that are evidently against the spirit of Italian consumer protection law if not the letter.

 Civilised competitors such as Jet 2 and Monarch are bound to garner business increasingly out of Italy as Ryanair pursues sharp practise inspired evidently by the philosophy of Ireland’s proto Fascist De Valera regime of the 1930s.

 Ryanair recently won a defamation suit against the Daily Mail for reporting that the airline cut corners on safety procedures such as fuel reserve policy. The newspaper acknowledged that the reports were baseless.