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]
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]
Irish budget airline Ryanair is to launch flights from London Southend Airport (SEN/EGMC) from April 2019. The 13 new routes, which already show on Ryanair’s website, include: Alicante (5 weekly) Barcelona Reus (2 weekly) Bilbao (4 weekly) Brest (2 weekly) Corfu (2 weekly) Cluj (3 weekly) Dublin (2 daily) Faro [read more]
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]
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]
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]
Crews from Irish budget Airline Ryanair and French carrier Air France are set to strike on Good Friday in a move that could see thousands of travellers from UK airports affected. Ryanair bases across Europe have threatened management with industrial action and staff at Ryanair’s Portugal bases are expected to walk out [read more]
Ryanair’s plan to buy 75% of Laudamotion gives the Irish budget carrier something different, 15 Airbus A320 aircraft. Until now, Ryanair has been a staunch single type airline, namely the Boeing 737-800. It is, in fact, one of Boeing’s biggest customers and their relationship with European airframer Airbus has been somewhat [read more]
Irish budget carrier Ryanair has agreed a deal to buy 75% of Niki Lauda’s new budget airline, Laudamotion. Ryanair will initially take a 24.9% stake in the airline then, Subject to European Union (EU) approval, increase that stake to 75% at a total cost of less than €50 million. In addition to [read more]
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