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Ryanair cancels flights as 2nd pilot strike hits

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]

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Ryanair Pilot strike gets underway in Ireland

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]

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Ryanair and NATS blame game continues

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]

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Ryanair is misleading about cause of delays says NATS

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]

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Ryanair pilots to strike on 12th July

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]

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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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Ryanair Sun is granted its AOC

Ryanair Sun, the charter offshoot of Ryanair, has been granted its Air Operators Certificate (AOC) by the Polish Regulators. The move clears the way for Ryanair Sun to begin flights which in 2018 will be for two travel agencies, Tui and Poznan Grecos Holidays. Ryanair Sun will operate five Boeing [read more]