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Ryanair has been slammed after it "expected" a passenger to take a financial hit for helping others. As a doctor, a passenger stepped in to tend to an elderly passenger … but Ryanair now won’t waive the £100 transfer fee to rebook, they warned.

Writing into the Guardian newspaper's consumer affairs section, the holidaymaker spoke out. The passenger wrote: "I was due to fly from London Stansted to Pescara, Italy. I was nearing the departure gate when an elderly woman fell down an escalator.

"I am a doctor and stopped to help. She had sustained a broken wrist, deep cuts and a worrying head injury and I had to stem the bleeding until staff and paramedics arrived.

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