On Monday the Irish budget airliner Ryanair said that airports had failed to recruit enough staff which has led to chaotic scenes at airports and flight cancellations around the UK with Neil Sorahan, Ryanair’s Chief Financial Officer saying they “had one job to do” and called on the airports to [read more]
The outspoken boss of Ryanair group, Michael O’Leary has said that Brexit is solely to blame for the current chaos being seen in UK airports claiming the problems are down to a failure to attract people to do jobs like baggage handling. He said that the problems would be quickly [read more]
Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has been accused of racial discrimination after forcing passengers holding South African passports to fill out a questionnaire in Afrikaans (A language used by less than 14% of South Africans) before being allowed to board their flights. Afrikaans is just one of 11 languages used [read more]
The appeal court in Paris has ruled in favour of Ryanair and order LastMinute to immediately stop selling Ryanair flights unofficially through its French website. The landmark ruling could have a major impact on the tactics of so-called screen scraper websites which appear to officially sell flights but then give [read more]
Ryanair has opened a brand new heavy maintenance facility at Shannon Airport in the west of Ireland. The facility is the result of a €10m investment by Ryanair and will carry out heavy maintenance on its fleet of Boeing 737s As well as the investment, the facility is also creating [read more]
Ryanair Group boss Michael O’Leary has hit out at Boeing’s management saying though should step up or ship out. The outspoken airline boss was reacting to delays in delivering new Boeing 737 Max aircraft to Ryanair by the Seattle USA-based airframer. Mr O’Leary said that Ryanair was still a willing [read more]
Ryanair (FR/RYR) has extended its use of 3rd party MRO providers for its winter maintenance needs by awarding STS Aviation a contract. The agreement will see STS work on Ryanair’s fleet of Boeing 737s at its facility at Birmingham Airport. Ian Bartholomew, Senior Vice President Business Development Europe at STS [read more]
Ryanair has selected South Wales MRO provider Caerdav for winter maintenance of its Boeing 737 fleet. Formerly known as Cardiff Aviation, Caerdav was started by Iron Maiden front man Bruce Dickinson with help from the Welsh Government. After a rocky start, the MRO specialist has contracts with EasyJet and TUI [read more]
Ryanair (FR/RYR) is set to return to the Austrian alps gateway airport in Klagenfurt (KLU/LOWK) after agreeing a deal that will see the airline return from two UK airports. From 1st November 2022, Ryanair will launch a twice-weekly service to Austria’s six-largest city from London Stansted (STN/EGSS) followed by a [read more]
Budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has announced it has added a direct flight between Bournemouth (BOH/EGHH) to Malta’s Luqa airport this summer. The new route will operate twice per week and brings the number of destinations available from Bournemouth with Ryanair to 15. Managing Director of Bournemouth Airport, Steve Gill said: [read more]
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