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Fortune
Stuart Dyos

Ryanair is suing a passenger who was so disruptive on a flight he forced the plane to land over 1,000 miles away from its destination

A Ryanair plane in the air (Credit: Gerard Bottino / SOPA Images / LightRocket—Getty Images)
  • Ryanair is seeking legal damages against a passenger after a flight disruption during a flight last April.

Irish budget airline Ryanair is seeking over $15,000 in damages after a passenger’s misconduct forced a Dublin flight bound for the Spanish island of Lanzarote to divert to Porto, the second-largest city in Portugal, which is nearly 1,400 miles away.

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