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Illegal ads and trouble with passengers-Will Ryanair be sued again before the end of 2008?
Current forecast: 25% chance 
Combining all predictions, the current forecast is that this is 25% likely to happen (unchanged in last 1 day)
Budget airlines RyanAir has seen its fair share of the courtroom in recent years. The last incident having involved the current president of France earlier this year. As the Huffington Post states:
A French court ordered the budget airline Ryanair on Tuesday to pay damages to President Nicolas Sarkozy and his new wife, Carla Bruni, left, for using their picture in an advertisement but the sum was less than Ms. Bruni had sought. The court ordered Ryanair to pay symbolic damages of 1 euro to Mr. Sarkozy and 60,000 euros ($88,870) to his wife. Ms. Bruni had been seeking damages of 500,000 euros. The pair's lawyer said she planned to give the money to a charity providing food for the poor. Mr. Sarkozy and Ms. Bruni sued Ryanair, which is based in Ireland, over an ad for low-price tickets...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/06/sarkozy-bruni-win-damage_n_85259.html
So will Ryanair get busted by the end of the year?
A French court ordered the budget airline Ryanair on Tuesday to pay damages to President Nicolas Sarkozy and his new wife, Carla Bruni, left, for using their picture in an advertisement but the sum was less than Ms. Bruni had sought. The court ordered Ryanair to pay symbolic damages of 1 euro to Mr. Sarkozy and 60,000 euros ($88,870) to his wife. Ms. Bruni had been seeking damages of 500,000 euros. The pair's lawyer said she planned to give the money to a charity providing food for the poor. Mr. Sarkozy and Ms. Bruni sued Ryanair, which is based in Ireland, over an ad for low-price tickets...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/06/sarkozy-bruni-win-damage_n_85259.html
So will Ryanair get busted by the end of the year?
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