IRELAND :
Ryanair today announced a new route from Liverpool John Lennon Airport (JLA) to Szczecin in North East Poland, with a twice weekly service starting on 21st May 2010.
IRELAND :
Ryanair, the world’s favourite airline, announced that it will build a second maintenance hangar at Glasgow Prestwick Airport at a cost of £8m which will create 200 new engineering jobs, increasing the total jobs sustained by Ryanair in Ayrshire to over 2,400. The facility, which is due to open in October 2010, was announced in Prestwick by Scotland’s First Minister, Alex Salmond and Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary.
IRELAND :
Ryanair, the World’s favourite airline, called on Jet 2 boss, Philip Meeson, to avoid the stress of flying on Jet 2 with its long check-in lines, and skip queues altogether by flying on one of Ryanair’s lower fare, web check-in, no queue flights.
IRELAND :
Ryanair today (3rd Sept), launched £35 (one way including taxes and charges) rescue fares for Easyjet passengers who have had their travel plans disrupted by Easyjet’s exit from East Midlands Airport.
IRELAND :
Today Ryanair has announced that from 1 October 2009 it will close 9 of its routes to.from Manchester. These are Barcelona (Girona), Bremen, Brussels (Charleroi), Cagliari, Dusseldorf (Weeze), Frankfurt (Hahn), Marseille, Milan (Bergamo) and Shannon.
IRELAND :
Ryanair, Europe’s largest low fares airline, confirmed (23-Jun-2009) that it will freeze growth at its nine UK bases with immediate effect. Ryanair highlighted that Gordon Brown’s GBP10 tourist tax, combined with the BAA Monopoly’s high airport charges have caused the loss of over 4.5 million passengers at the BAA UK airports in the first five months of the year.
IRELAND :
Ryanair, Europe’s largest low fares airline, 13 May 09 confirmed that from 20-May-09 all new passenger bookings, including those travelling with infants and checked in bags, will move to online check-in and ‘bag-drop’ only as Ryanair phases out the use airport of check-in desks from its 146 airports by 01-Oct-09.
IRELAND :
Ryanair, Europe’s largest low fares airline, confirmed that it will donate any damages it receives from the legal proceeding against French trade union, Confederation General de Travail (CGT), which begins tomorrow in Carcassonne District Court, directly to La Ligue contre le Cancer which works to prevent and educate people in relation to cancer in Carcassonne and nationally.
IRELAND :
The European Ombudsman, P. Nikiforos Diamandouros, has found no evidence that the European Commission breached confidentiality during its review of Ryanair's planned takeover of Aer Lingus. This follows a complaint from Ryanair, alleging that the Commission had improperly disclosed highly sensitive information provided to it by Ryanair. During his investigation, the Ombudsman found that leaks to the press had indeed taken place, but concluded that they could not be attributed to the Commission.