Ryanair

Ryanair has announced that it has slashed fares across Europe with 1million recession busting €1/£1 fares, inclusive of taxes and charges, on ryanair.com. Seats can be booked immediately and will remain on sale until midnight Wednesday 7th August, for travel from 1st September – 30th September 2008.

Ryanair has announced that it will transfer seven routes from Forli to nearby Bologna from 27th October 2008 which will deliver 800,000 passengers to the airport annually.

Ryanair has rejected the criticism of Altero Matteoli, Italy’s Transport Minister, concerning the advert on Ryanair’s Italian website which features Sig Umberto Bossi making a vulgar sign in Padua 10 days ago.

Ryanair has this week announced a Q1 profit of €21m down €118m (or 85%) as fuel costs almost doubled and yields fell due to the absence of Easter in this quarter and its presence in the prior year comparable. Despite the absence of Easter, traffic grew by 19% to 15m, as average fares (including bag charges) fell by 8% to €42, while total revenues grew 12% to €777m. Unit costs excluding fuel fell by 6%, including fuel they increased by 18%, due to higher oil prices and longer sector lengths.

To mark the end of this year’s Tour de France, Ryanair has launched an amazing £5 seat sale on a number of routes to France. The £5 seats (which include taxes and charges), can be booked on Ryanair.com up to midnight tonight, Friday 25th July, subject to availability, for travel between 1st September and 31st October 2008.

Ryanair has announced 2 new routes to Girona Barcelona and Alicante from Leeds Bradford International Airport. The Girona Barcelona route will operate 4 times weekly from 1st October 2008, while the 3 times weekly service to Alicante will commence on 28th October.

Ryanair has announced substantial capacity cutbacks at Stansted for its Winter Schedule (08/09). Ryanair, which last Winter had 36 aircraft based at Stansted, will this Winter reduce that number to 28 aircraft (a 25% reduction), and an approximate 14% reduction in the number of weekly flights from over 1,850 per week last year to just under 1,600 this year. Ryanair estimates that its traffic at London Stansted will decline this Winter by some 900,000 passengers compared to last Winter’s schedule.

Ryanair has confirmed that contrary to last week’s claims by EU bureaucrats, £1 airfares are alive and kicking and are available during a 3 day seat sale at ryanair.com.

Ryanair has announced a new route from London Luton to Biarritz in the South of France. The route will operate three times weekly commencing 4 November 2008.

Ryanair, Europe’s largest low fares airline, today (July 15) announced substantial capacity reductions at its Dublin base for the coming winter schedule (2008-9). Compared to last winter, when Ryanair operated 22 aircraft and over 1,350 weekly flights, Ryanair’s schedule at Dublin this winter will be reduced to 18 based aircraft and less than 1,200 weekly flights.

Ryanair today announced a further price reduction as part of its Autumn 2008 Seat Sale – doubling the savings already available to millions of customers. The latest deal reduces Ryanair’s return fares by £40 for travel between 9 September and 28 March 2009. All of Ryanair’s 716 routes are included in this offer.

Ryanair has criticised the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) for the incident which followed the failure of the IAA’s radar system at Dublin Airport, causing Dublin Airport to be closed to inbound flights at 14:00hrs yesterday with five inbound Ryanair flights being diverted to Shannon and Belfast.

Ryanair has welcomed the European Parliament decision to bring airlines into line with fare transparency standards. The airline also states that its own website is already compliant with the decision made today.

Ryanair has condemned the European Parliament's decision to include aviation in EU emissions trading systems from 2012 onwards. This vote by the European Parliament could add up to €50 per flight to the cost of passenger tickets from 2012 onwards (although even these MEPs don’t know how much the final figure will be), in a measure that will substantially increase taxation on Europe’s consumers.

Ryanair has announced that Sean Coyle, its Director of Scheduled Revenue, has resigned to take up the position of Chief Financial Officer in Aer Lingus Group plc in which Ryanair is a 29% shareholder.

Ryanair has launched its Autumn 2008 Seat Sale, knocking €10 off millions of seats across Europe. All of Ryanair’s 716 routes are included in the offer, for travel between September 2008 and March 2009.

Ryanair has announced a new daily route from Ireland West Knock Airport to Liverpool – commencing on 27th October 2008.

Ryanair has announced a new route from Birmingham to Prague. This follows the launch of the airline’s new base at Birmingham last month when the airline announced 9 other new routes also due to take off in October.

Ryanair has launched its Autumn 2008 Seat Sale, knocking €10 off millions of seats across Europe. All of Ryanair’s 716 routes are included in the offer, for travel between September 2008 and March 2009*.

Ryanair is inviting applications from registered charities who wish to partner with Ryanair for its 2009 Cabin Crew Charity Calendar. The 2009 Calendar will go on sale on November 1 and the charity chosen by Ryanair will receive all proceeds from calendar sales.

Ryanair has rejected claims by Arad County Council and its President, Mr. Iosaf Matula, in relation to Ryanair’s recent cancellation of its route from Milan Bergamo to Arad Airport in Romania.

Ryanair has announced the cancellation of all flights to Arad Airport in Romania from the 31st July. Ryanair started flying to Arad from Bergamo in Italy 3 times weekly in April 2008 and had intended to carry 50,000 passengers in the first year of operations to the Arad region. All plans for additional flights to Arad have now been cancelled and Ryanair will replace the Arad service with a 3 times weekly service from Bergamo to Berlin-Schönefeld.

Ryanair has announced that it will launch three new routes - to Faro, Fuerteventura and Prague - from East Midlands at the end of October this year. This latest expansion brings Ryanair's East Midlands base to thirty-eight routes. Passengers can now access a wide variety of European destinations from East Midlands such as Belfast, Shannon, Nantes, Nimes, Malaga, Milan and many more.

Ryanair has announced that it will launch four new routes from Liverpool - to Gdansk, Scezecin, Knock and Faro - at the end of October this year. This latest expansion brings the number of routes at Ryanair's Liverpool base to forty-five. Passengers can now access a wide variety of European destinations from Liverpool such as Derry, Madrid, Pisa and Nimes.

Ryanair has launched a new Flight Tracker service with Sentient Solutions, which will deliver flight information directly to UK and Irish mobiles. By calling or texting Flight Tracker, anyone awaiting a Ryanair passenger can now receive up to date information on the status of any Ryanair flight to/ from the UK and Ireland as well as regular flight status updates for just £1.50/ €2.