EasyJet, Germanwings lose legal fight against EU's Italian airport ruling

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Easyjet and Lufthansa's Germanwings on Wednesday lost their challenge against an EU ruling ordering Italy to recover illegal state aid granted to airlines serving Sardinia.The European Commission has in recent years struck down deals granted by regional authorities to attract budget airlines to secondary European airports, saying that these gave them an unfair advantage.EU competition enforcers in their 2016 decision said a Sardinian scheme to develop air transport was..