Ryanair
Ryanair carries 58 million passengers in 2008
Ryanair has announced that it carried almost 58 million passengers in the calendar year 2008, an increase of over 8 million passengers (18%) on its 2007 traffic. Ryanair capped off an extraordinary year of growth by carrying 4.4 million passengers in December, an 11% increase over December 2007.
Ryanair launches New Year price war
Ryanair today launched the first attack in its New Year’s price war in a move that could help transform the fortune of UK retailers as it instructed European passengers to storm the UK in order to take full advantage of the UK Sterling exchange rate as Ryanair cut its guaranteed lowest fares to just £5 on 300 routes throughout Europe.
Ryanair welcomes Charleroi airport ruling
Ryanair today (Wednesday, 17th December 2008) welcomed the decision of the European Court of First Instance (CFI), which overturned the European Commission’s 2004 decision on Ryanair’s base agreement with Charleroi airport.
Ryanair gift voucher sales soar in run up to Christmas
Ryanair confirmed that it continues to defy industry predictions that the airline industry will see traffic plummet in 2009 as it confirmed a large increase in sales of its Christmas Gift Vouchers, with sales for Christmas 2008 over 10% ahead of the same period in 2007.
Ryanair slashes ski travel from Birmingham
Ryanair yesterday announced that it was slashing its fares on ski routes from Birmingham as it launched 10,000 £1 seats, including taxes and charges, on ski routes to Cuneo (Alps), Perpignan, Stockholm (Skavsta) and Oslo (Torp) for travel in January, February and March.
Ryanair confirms closure of 9 Fuerteventura routes
Ryanair has confirmed that it will close all of its routes to/from Fuerteventura from 31st January, claiming that local tourism group AIE failed to honour the commercial agreement it entered into with Ryanair to promote Fuerteventura as a tourist destination.
Ryanair launches Crazy Christmas Countdown
Ryanair yesterday launched its “Crazy Christmas Countdown” seat sale, which kicks off today with fares starting from just £1 and increasing by £1 each day until Sunday 21 December when fares peak at £12.
Ryanair calls for answers from Stansted Airport
Ryanair has criticised security failures at Stansted Airport yesterday, claiming that the failings join a long list of management failures at the airport including lengthy queues at security and at passport control.
Ryanair counts down to Christmas with 12 day seat sale
Ryanair today (Tuesday, 9th December 2008) began the countdown to Christmas by launching its 12 Days of Christmas - 1 Million Seat Sale, which kicks off tomorrow for just £1 and increases by £1 each day until Sunday 21st December when fares peak at £12 one way including taxes.
Ryanair calendar raises money for charity
Ryanair has warned that time is running out to secure a copy of the 2009 Ryanair Cabin Crew Charity Calendar with just 1,000 copies of the calendar remaining online.
Ryanair warns of airline bankruptcies
Ryanair today warned passengers against booking their summer holidays with flaky charter airlines or shoddy holiday companies as it predicted that the spate of airline bankruptcies, which disrupted the summer holiday plans of millions of passengers this year, looks set to continue into next year.
Ski the Italian Alps with Ryanair for £1*
Ryanair today (2 December) launched a £1* one way ski fare for travel during the months of December, January and February to celebrate the early start of the ski season.
Ryanair rejects Heathrow and Manchester as ‘Best UK Airports’
Ryanair yesterday voiced its objection to the awards given to London Heathrow and Manchester Airports at the recent British Travel Awards.
Ryanair Calendar Girls take YouTube by storm
Ryanair has confirmed that its campaign to defend the rights of girls to take their clothes off for charity is taking YouTube by storm with over 150,000 people logging on to view behind the scenes footage of the making of Ryanair’s Cabin Crew Charity Calendar 2009, which UK politician Mary Honeyball criticised as ‘soft porn’.
Ryanair launches sixth low fare route from Gatwick
Ryanair has today (26 November) announced its sixth route from London Gatwick with the launch of a new daily service to/from Dusseldorf (Weeze) from 7 January 2009. This follows Ryanair’s recent announcement of routes from Gatwick to Barcelona (Girona) and Alicante.