Blue Air, Germanwings, easyJet, SkyEurope are other discount airlines flying to Romania. Is there a general strike in Greece? Where is the volcano cloud? Eurocontrol
1, June, 2010 new luggage fees, watch out
Greek strike, unions GSEE and ADEDY, (will start midnight Wednesday) 24 hours, Thursday. May, 20, 2010, will effect ferries international trains, borders and Greek air space, air traffic controllers.
Ryanair's Michael O'Leary at war with BBC's Panorama over investigation into his airline
Here's a new one for you regarding the ever frugal Ryanair. Make sure you have change when boarding for the vending machines. Along with condoms for sale, will be sandwiches, smokeless cigarettes, snacks and hot, cold drinks. Perhaps they will have robotic legs to push you down the safety chute and give announcements.
12, Jan. 10. Flying in or out of France this week? Air traffic controllers strike and weather delays. Check our front page for updates.
Ireland, possible general strike, 3, December, 2009.
1st January, the airline said that they will now charge passengers who use Visa Electron the same fee as all other card transactions, £5
11/30/09 Chief Executive Officer Michael O’Leary said he expects to leave the low-cost airline within three years, he still wants to own Aer Lingus before he leaves! Ryanair announced that it will open its first base in Norway. With the opening of this base, 1,700 jobs will be created. The budget airline said that the base will be made at Oslo Rygge Airport in March.
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Day of protest 6, November, 09
Wide spread strike threat for the 24, November, 09 and are you flying into Belgium beginning of November? NMBS, National Railway System of Belgium on strike
Romania general strike 5, October, 2009
9, October, 09 Ryan air had flights cancelled today out of Stansted Airport because of security reasons Ryanair.com
9/30/09 The Irish Congress of Trade Unions says it intends to begin a campaign of action over pay and spending cuts beginning with protests on Friday 6 November.
9/09 Two new bases Bari and Brindisi
8/25/09 Eight new Edinburgh routes to Barcelona (Girona), Brussels (Charleroi), Gdansk, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Memmingen (Munich West), Oslo (Torp) and Tenerife this winter (from Oct 30) and the airline is also extending its summer routes to/from Malta and Rome (Ciampino).
21 August, 09 Get to Dublin Airport early.
Ryanair complaining to Dublin Airport that passengers have missed flights due to a go slow by security staff and forced onto a later flight. Aer Lingus same complaint throughout this summer. Dublin Airport claims, no such thing. Ryanair want's government to become involved.
2009 This year Ryanair will carry almost three times the passengers British Airways will.
13 August, 09 Liverpool John Lennon Airport, strike by, ground staff, baggage handlers 20 August. Ryanair opening deskes early.
Ryanair dropping operations from Manchester Airport, October 2009 routes because of airport costs and Manchester airport wont give. Flights from Manchester were from Girona, Bremen, Brussels, Cagliari, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Marseille, Bergamo and Shannon. Same thing with London Stansted Airport. 600 local job loss. C'est la vie, moving onto Leeds Airport. Also pulling out of Doncaster Robin Hood Airport, Alicante and Barcelona routes.
12 August, 09 Stansted Airport baggage handlers balloting for strike
12 August, 09 Ryanair announced new base at Leeds Bradford as our 34th base and 11th UK base airport. 14 new routes from Leeds Bradford go on sale tomorrow
8 July, 2009 Ryanair proposes ‘vertical seating’ financemarkets.co.uk
5/28/09 Ryanair also announced its plans to cancel flights from East Midlands to Prague and to lower the frequency of other Prague flights.
5/27/09 Ryanair, thinking of introducing "take your own bag down through airport security, leave it at the bottom of the steps, we put it in the hold and on arrival we deliver it to the aircraft steps and you take it with you," Chief Executive Michael O'Leary told a news conference on Thursday.
8 May, 09 Ryanair has abandoned plans for a "fat tax" on obese passengers, because it would slow down check-in procedures, it said Friday. A pole taken by 16,000 people overwhelmingly voted to charge per kilo over (that's over 130 kg for men, 100 kg for women)
Charging for a second seat if the passenger's waist touched both armrests, charging for every point over 40 in the Body Mass Index (BMI), or for every inch of waist above 45 inches for men (40 inches for women). 30,000 Ryanair passengers called for a fat tax!
3/30/09 Dublin, Shannon, Cork Airports strike threat for 2 April is over, both sides will sit down with Labor Relations Commission in the week.
2 April, 2009 Ryanair, launched three new Italian routes, Alghero, Bologna and Cagliari Airports. and
39 new routes to and from eight Spanish airports. These were named as Alicante; Girona; Granada; Ibiza; Palma,; Reus; Santander and Sevilla. He concluded by predicting that Ryanair would overtake Spanish flag carrier Iberia as the country’s largest airline by the middle of 2011.
3/26/09 Thursday, Here we go again, Thought you'd scraped by didn't you! 4am to midday on Thursday April 2nd. Don't forget taxi strike on 1 April, 09 April fools day! This news came from the airport, SIPTU have no comment.
3/25/09 Wednesday strike called OFF by Irish Congress of Trade Unions, or ICTU. Ultimately not enough members from other unions on board with strike.Strike has only been deferred.
30 March 09, Monday, To and from airports, Dublin International Airport, Shannon and Cork. Expect severe disruptions, nation wide strike by public sector. Lingus and Ryan Air will be affected. Strike time will be 4am to noon on Monday.
Remember France national strike 3/19/09
3/17/09 Passengers to Suggest Next Discretionary Charge Ryanair.com
27 February, 2009 Ryanair may charge £1 for lavatory use telegraph,uk,co
Ryanair has teamed up with Costa Cruises
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The war of words between two of Ireland's top airline tycoons has taken a bitter turn with the head of regional airline Aer Arann claiming Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary told him: "F**k off back to Connemara where you come from." belfasttelegraph.co.uk
11/4/08 Ryanair plans cheap trans-Atlantic flights London's Stansted and Dublin airports to New York, Florida, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Boston, Ryanair, flights of 10 euros, before taxes.
10/27/08 Ryanair from March of 2009, the Irish budget carrier will launch 11 new routes from the Bologna airport, in a move that followed its announcement of major route expansion from Sardinia. .carrentals.co.uk
10/16/08 O'Leary lashes out at Aer Lingus's new Belfast base independent.ie
10/16/08 Ryanair calls for inquiry over airport fuel prices telegraph.co.uk/
10/14/08 Aer Lingus described it as an "anti-consumer, an anti-tourism and an anti-business" measure and said that the lower rate should have applied to UK airports. irishtimes.com
10/7/08 Ryanair boss accuses BA of 'scamming' passengers telegraph.co.uk
10/2/08 Ryanair sorry as 25 flights from Birmingham are canceled birminghampost.net
9/30/08 Europe's leading budget airlines, Ryanair and easyJet, are both offering 'low price guarantees'. If you can beat the price they offer, they'll pay you double the difference. gospain.about.com
9/19/08 RYANAIR was condemned last night for threatening to make its pilots take unpaid leave.dailyexpress
9/9/08 The company said on Tuesday the launch of new routes between Scottish capital Edinburgh and a range of destinations from Bournemouth in the UK to Lodz in Poland would be delayed by six weeks to November 5..reuters.com
8/8/08 The no frills carrier says that it will refuse to honor any online bookings from Monday, unless they have been made through its own website. The dispute centres on what are known as "screenscraping" websites, which can compare prices and book flight tickets on the passenger's behalf. consumers are being forced to pay a commission on top of the fare if they use these websites. telegraph.com.ukl
Irish airline Ryanair shares slump after 85 per cent profit drop. /canadianpress.google.com
European Union and Danish officials have named and shamed more online travel operators and airlines in an ongoing crackdown against misleading ads and rip-off consumer price schemes.
Helen Kearns, spokeswoman at the European Commission said Denmark's consumer ombudsman pointed to online ticket Web sites run by Ryanair, Air Berlin, Air Baltic, SkyEurope, Aer Lingus, Brussels Airlines and Seat24.
They say the sites had problems with pricing and terms of contract for flight bookings.
5 July 08 Ireland Strike threatens to shut Derry airport.Forced to close on July 16 and 17 if workers walk out in a dispute over pay. belfasttelegraph.co.uk
6/26/08 Ryanair continues to account for the majority of complaints made by passengers to the aviation regulator although the budget airline has been one of a number of airlines which has shown a significant improvement in complying with its warnings and recommendations in recent months. ireland.com
6/19/08 Budget airline Ryanair has announced four new routes for flights from Liverpool. Faro in Portugal and Knock in Ireland as well as to Gdansk and Szczecin in Poland. BBCNEWS
6/6/08 EasyJet Launches Second Seat Sell-Off. Planes were less full in May than a year ago. EasyJet is offering up to 20% off two million seats between June 16 and July 17. news.sky.com
2 June, Ryan Air will not pass on the cost of fuel to customers. newssky.com
5/27/08 Airline survey regarding mobile phones. timesonlilne
2 March Air chiefs deny Ryan Air preferences. independantie
2/28/08 Ryan Air has been black-listed by ARN (Swedish National Board for Consumer Complaints) for refusing to compensate travelers for delays and canceled flights, according to Råd & Rön.
Time to move them to the shaky airline status.
April 8, RYANAIR has extracted savings of more than €50m by renegotiating airport contracts in recent weeks and has also quietly extended its management pay freeze to "more than half" the airline's staff.
full article independent.ie
Mar 17 2008 PASSENGERS were stranded at a French airport after a Ryanair flight to Liverpool was canceled.
About 600 travelers had to spend Saturday night in Grenoble after flights to Dublin, Prestwick and London were also cancelled due to high winds.
Holidaymakers described chaotic scenes in the airport as they desperately sought information and tried to find hotels with space for the hundreds of unexpected guests.
A spokesman for Ryanair said: “There were four flights cancelled because of high winds, which would have made it unsafe for the flights to depart.
“All passengers were offered refunds or transfers to the next possible flight.”
2/13/08 Ryanair systems upgrade will halt bookings for 3 days per computerworlduk.com
Trouble brewing with cut rate carriers. per frommers.com
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