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Government wins Heathrow expansion vote

The UK Government has won the House of Commons vote on airport expansion at Heathrow by 415 to 119. Expansion at Heathrow was the governments preferred option despite an option at Gatwick being cheaper and requiring less destruction of residential properties. Former London Mayor Boris Johnson has opposed the third runway at [read more]

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Hundreds of flights cancelled as french ATC strikes hit

Hundreds of flights from the UK have been cancelled this weekend as the latest French ATC strike takes hold. Controllers in Marseilles are striking on Saturday Sunday affecting flights to the region, and also flights crossing the airspace of Southern France, causing weekend chaos for thousands of passengers. Irish budget airline Ryanair [read more]

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IATA confirms Ryanair is Europe’s favourite airline

The latest World Airline Transport statistics from IATA show that Ryanair carried more passengers than any other European airline in 2017. The figures from the International Air Transport Association (IATA) show that the Irish budget airline carried 128m passengers between 1st Jan 2017 and 31st December 2017, almost 50% more than [read more]

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Ryanair under fire for student drinking advert

Irish budget airline Ryanair has come under fire on social media over its latest campaign to get students to book flights which features a man asleep on a beach next to an empty bottle of alcohol under the tag line “Book on ryanair.com in between “studying” tonight. This could be you ?”. Facebook [read more]

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UK flights to Cyprus warned about possible military action

UK airlines have been warned that military action against Syria could cause safety concerns in the Cyprus area along with “intermittent disruption to navigation equipment”. The warning was issued today by the European Aviation Security Agency (EASA) and covers the Eastern Mediterranean & Nicosia flight information region (FIR), which includes [read more]

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Ryanair reveals massive gender pay gap

Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has revealed it has a massive gender pay gap with male employees being paid on average 67% more than female employees doing the same job. The gap is largest of all airlines that have reported pay under new regulations, Easyjet reported a 51.7% gap and British Airways [read more]