Ryanair is facing a lengthy court battle as the British Airport Authority confirmed it had begun legal action against the airline over its refusal to pay a 15% increase in airport charges at London’s Stansted Airport.
The court action is the latest twist in a long-running dispute between Ryanair and the UK airport manager over charges at Stansted, which is the main hub for the airline.
source: belfasttelegraph.co.uk
Budget airline Ryanair has said it will fix a fault on its website that means it is breaking rules on price clarity.
At the moment, its website is breaking rules set by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) by showing prices which do not include taxes and charges.
source: BBC
Ryanair is axing 150 weekly Dublin flights this winter, ending the dramatic Dublin expansion kicked off by the airline three years ago.
The move comes as the world’s airlines batten down the hatches amid soaring fuel prices and weakening economic conditions.
The airline last night warned that up to 500 jobs at the airport could be lost as a result of its decision, although the actual losses are likely to be significantly less.
source: independent.ie
Budget airline Ryanair today said it would ground up to 10 per cent of its fleet this winter to combat soaring airport charges.
The carrier – which unveiled a 17 per cent rise in pre-tax profits to 528 million euro (£419m) in the year to March 31 – said it would be more profitable to keep 20 aircraft on the ground at Stansted and Dublin than put them in the air.
Chief executive Michael O’Leary blamed the “‘unjustified'” doubling in landing and handling charges levied by Stansted operator BAA and higher charges at Dublin Airport.
source: Independent.co.uk
Low-cost airline Ryanair has announced a further expansion of services between the UK and Europe.
The budget carrier will begin offering flights from Glasgow Airport to the Portuguese city Faro in October 2008.
This will coincide with the launch of flights between Glasgow and Malaga in Spain.
Meanwhile, Ryanair will also open up a number of new routes from Bournemouth Airport, including services to Milan and Paris.
source: ready2invest.co.uk
Ryanair, Europe’s largest low-cost airline, today announced changes to its optional priority boarding service which allows passengers to be first to board their flights.
Web check-in passengers receive this service free of charge in order to promote online check-in, whilst airport check-in passengers currently pay £4 or €5 for the service. However, from June 3 this year the airline will introduce a new web check-in policy, which means that web check-in passengers will no longer receive priority boarding free of charge.
source: ireland-digital.co.uk
Since Jun-07, the Spanish government requires that all passengers travelling from the UK/Ireland to Spain (including the Canaries and Balearic Islands) provide ‘advance ‘passenger information” (‘API’ or ‘APIS’ data) before their flight departure.
From 1-Jun-08, all passengers flying with Ryanair to Spain from the UK and Ireland must provide this APIS at the time of original booking or at least 4hrs before departure on the airline web site.
Spanish Government APIS requirements are :
*Full Name (as it appears on the passport)
*Date of birth
*Nationality
*Passport or Travel document number
*Type of Document
*Issuing State
source: Peanuts!
Ryanair today raised the cost of putting bags in the hold and checking in at airports as the high cost of oil forced airlines to scrabble for extra revenues.
Passengers on Europe’s largest budget carrier will have to pay £16 per bag for a return trip and £8 to use a check-in desk per return journey from next Monday, amid widespread fears for the financial health of the aviation industry.
The cost of fuelling aircraft has soared this year as the global oil price has climbed from around $80 a barrel to nearly $120. Fuel accounts for a quarter of airline budgets and the resulting financial squeeze has triggered a wave of bankruptcies on both sides of the Atlantic, amid warnings from some analysts that major carriers could go to the wall or be forced to merge with rivals in order to survive.
source: guardian.co.uk
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.
However chief executive Michael O’Leary said the airline had failed to secure any cost savings at Dublin airport and is now planning to scale back its Dublin presence next winter.
The savings drive comes as the airline continues its war against rising fuel prices.
source: independent.ie
Ryanair launches its first domestic routes in France, from Marseille to Paris, and Germany from Frankfurt Hahn to Berlin. The routes will start in May 2008.
source: Boarding.no
