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The third strike by Irish pilots of budget airline Ryanair has seen flights cancelled for over 2,500 passengers flying between the UK and Ireland. Ahead of today’s strikes, Ryanair tried to shift blame onto its pilot’s by publishing pay slips and claiming its pilots earn between €150,000 and  €200,000 per annum [read more]

Ryanair, Europe’s largest budget airline, has seen its profits fall 20% in the first quarter of 2018. Profits for the airline dropped to €319m despite traffic growing 7% to 36m passengers in the period. Ryanair blamed lower fares, higher fuel costs and pilot costs for the decrease in profit. The airline [read more]

Ryanair has been forced to cancel flights today affecting around 4000 passengers in Ireland, and many more in the UK and other countries as it’s Irish pilots stage a second 24-hour walkout. The budget airline cancelled flights to and from the UK from Ireland, particularly routes that would allow passengers to rebook [read more]

The EU commission has approved Ryanair taking a 75% stake in Austrian airline, Laudamotion. Laudamotion is owned by former Formula 1 driver Niki Lauda and took control of Niki when Air Berlin collapsed last year. Ryanair almost immediately took a stake 24% in the airline in a deal worth €50m, [read more]

Ryanair has confirmed it has had to cancel a number of flights from Ireland as a 24hour pilot strike gets underway. The 24-hour walkout by pilots based at Dublin and other Irish airports began at 01:00hrs (BST) today and will last until 01:00hrs (BST) tomorrow. The Irish budget carrier confirmed it had [read more]

You may have recently seen a Twitter statement regarding delays from Irish budget airline Ryanair which blamed ATC shortages for delays to its flights on the 9th and 10th July Whilst not unusual in itself, it got more attention when NATS (National Air Traffic Services), the UK’s air navigation provider responded [read more]

The UK’s primary Air Traffic Control provider, National Air Traffic Services (NATS) has publicly accused Ryanair of misleading passengers over the cause of delays. In a tweet on Monday, 9th July, Ryanair blamed French, German, Spanish and British ATC shortages for delays to 44% of its flights. Much to Ryanair’s surprise [read more]

Ryanair Pilots based in  Ireland have voted to stage a 24-hour walkout on the 12th July. The industrial action will affect hundreds of flights in and out of Ryanair’s primary base at Dublin as well as Cork and Shannon. The Irish Airline Pilots’ Association balloted members over a lack of an [read more]