Ryanair threaten to drop Italy

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I would like to explain better the real issue, since Ryanair uses the "Hunting License" as a cover-up.

In Italy you can board by law on any domestic flight showing a document with your photo id issued by any authorized government office. Most of people use the Passport or the national ID card, but some others documents (like hunting licenses) are good, because they are released with the same security checks of other documents by government offices (not by private held organizations).

The problem with Ryainair is that they don't allow anything different from the Passport or the ID Card, but while nobody is complaining about the possibility to use the "fishing permit" (probably less than 0,0001% of passengers tryed to use it) the big problem is the AT/BT ID Card that they refuse to accept. This card is an ID issued to police and military forces and their relatives (wifes, sons...) and it's commonly used in Italy instead of the ID Card. They are equivalent to an ID Card, and issued by the ministery of the defence or the ministery of the internal affairs.

People that uses a AT/BT ID Card are a lot, since we are talking about most of the soldiers, officers, police officers, and their relatives. All other airlines accepts the AT/BT cards for domestic flights, because the Italian law allows this, and the AT/BT cards are perfectly safe (probably more than the standard ID card).

So really I can't understand where's the issue with Ryanair...

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