Ryanair
Ryanair.com to allow same day bookings
Ryanair has announced that passengers can book tickets for same day travel on ryanair.com up to 6 hours before the scheduled departure time of all flights.
Ryanair cuts Stansted winter capacity by 40%
Ryanair announced last week a 40% capacity cutback in its Stansted Winter Schedule starting in October ’09.
Ryanair launches a million seats for £5
IATA published its 2008 traffic figures, which show Ryanair overtaking Lufthansa in terms of passenger numbers. This year Ryanair expects to grow from 58m to over 67m passengers. To celebrate, Ryanair has released 1 million £5 seats for travel in September and October.
Ryanair announces new Stansted to Oslo route
Ryanair, the World’s favourite airline has announced that it will operate a twice-daily service from London Stansted to Oslo Rygge Airport (approx 50kms south of Oslo) from October 1.
Ryanair extends passenger poll
Ryanair today extended its ‘free standing-flights’ online poll to Tuesday 21st July after 50,000 votes were cast in just five days. Ryanair hopes to poll over 100,000 passengers to find out if they would be willing to stand on one hour flights if it meant the fare was free.
Ryanair carries double the number of BA passengers
Ryanair has announced that it carried twice the worldwide traffic of British Airways in June as 5.8million passengers travelled on Ryanair’s guaranteed lowest fares (up 13%) while BA carried just 2.9 million passenger (down 5%) in June.
Ryanair releases 1 million recession busting seats
Ryanair today released 1 million recession-busting £1 seats (which include all taxes and charges) for travel in September and October. These are available for booking on ryanair.com until midnight Thursday (16 July).
Ryanair asks passengers to vote on ‘standing’ flights
Ryanair has launched an online poll to ask if passengers would ‘stand’ on short flights if it meant they could travel for free, or pay 50% less than seated passengers.
11 new Ryanair routes take off at Bristol
Ryanair crew and check in staff at Bristol International teamed up last week (3 July) to launch eleven new routes from the airport. Bristol-based Charlotte Oliver, star of Ryanair’s charity calendar for 2009, led the way as the team lined up alongside one of two new Boeing 737-800s (joining two similar aircraft already based at Bristol International).
Ryanair carries record 60 million passengers
Ryanair has announced that its June traffic increased by 13% to 5.8 million passengers, a new monthly record, smashing the 5.7 million passenger record set in August 2008. Ryanair also carried over 60 million passengers in the 12 months to the end of June – a new annual traffic record.
Ryanair announces new base at Porto
Ryanair has announced it will open its 33rd base at Porto (Northern Portugal) with two based aircraft and four new routes (16 in total). Ryanair will offer 50 daily return flights to/from Porto in an investment worth over $140 million.
Ryanair celebrates customer service statistics
Ryanair today (30th June 09) welcomed the publication of punctuality, flight cancelation and baggage performance statistics by the Association of European Airlines (AEA), for November ‘08 – March ‘09, which confirmed that Ryanair is Europe’s number one airline for customer service with the best on time performance, the fewest cancelations and the least lost bags.
Ryanair promotes Webloyalty
Ryanair has announced a partnership with Webloyalty, a leading provider of online savings, discount and protection programmes, which will provide Ryanair UK passengers with discounts of up to 20% at over 700 top online retailers as well as best price guarantees, automatic extended warranty protection, and a £10 cash back cheque from Webloyalty every month in which they purchase a Ryanair flight, all for just £10 per month.
Ryanair freezes growth at 9 UK bases
Ryanair today confirmed that it will freeze growth at its nine UK bases with immediate effect. Ryanair claims that Gordon Brown’s £10 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.
Ryanair cuts winter flights and jobs
Ryanair has announced cuts in its winter based aircraft, flights and jobs at Dublin and Shannon Airports as the Government’s €10 tourist tax continues to devastate Irish traffic and tourism.