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The low-cost airline, Ryanair, has announced that it is pulling out of Los Rodeos – the Tenerife Norte Airport – because, as La Opinión de Tenerife reports, its customers prefer Tenerife Sur.

The company confirmed new routes with Tenerife this autumn: two connections a week with East Midlands from 10th October; three with Liverpool and Frankfurt from 30th October; and a weekly flight from 10th November to Shannon Airport.

source: typicallyspanish.com

Fashion and football capital Milan will soon be just a short hop from the south coast after budget airline Ryanair launched new flights there from its Bournemouth base.

Starting in December to attract skiers bound for slopes near the city, the Saturday flights will start at £10 each way including taxes and charges for the next seven days.

Flights are to Milan Bergamo, 27 miles outside the city, which is home to Champions League winners AC Milan and their rivals Inter as well as couture clothes designers and fashion shows, pictured.

source: Daily Echo

Ryanair passengers will be charged £2 to check in at airport desks from next month as part of the airline’s latest ruse for slashing costs.

Europe’s largest low-cost airline denied that it was gouging passengers with its latest levy. Starting on September 20, passengers who want to check in at the airport must pay a further £2 alongside a charge of £5 to put bags in the hold.

source: Guardian.co.uk

Ryanair sees room to open two more bases in Spain by around 2010 and will double passengers there, the airline said yesterday, a week after announcing its presence in the country would double to four hubs.

“‘We now have four bases and there is space for one or two more . . . in the next three or four years,'” Ryanair’s director of marketing and sales in Spain, Maribel Rodriguez, said. “‘There’s still a lot of space to grow.'”

Rodriguez later said the airline planned to double profits from Spain as well as the number of passengers to and from Spanish airports by around 2012.

source: Independent.ie

Controversial airline Ryanair has attracted the ire of unionist politicians over an ad for its services in the North.

The ad shows a mock-up of Martin McGuinness with the caption that Ryanair flights are “‘so cheap even the British army used them to go home'”.

Michael Copeland, an Ulster Unionist MLA in east Belfast, has described the promotion as insensitive, crass and provocative to people who consider the North a part of Britain.

source: independent.ie

The low-cost airline Ryanair is to ditch its flights from Inverness and Aberdeen to Liverpool after only a year because of poor passenger numbers.

The company yesterday announced plans for 11 new routes across Europe from October. But 11 other links, including Inverness-Liverpool and Aberdeen-Liverpool are being axed from 2 November to accommodate them.

source: scotsman.com

Ryanair today announced 11 new routes from its bases in Barcelona, Bremen, Brussels, Dublin, London, Marseille and Milan. The airline also cancelled another 11 routes.

These 11 new routes bring the Ryanair network to 499 routes across 26 countries and mark the reinstatement of low fare flights between France and Morocco following the French Government’s refusal in December to proceed, as other European countries did, with the prompt application of the already agreed EU Morocco open-skies agreement.

source: finfacts.com

Ryanair maintained its barrage of complaints against governments and regulators, airport authorities and competitors with a blast against the European Commission on Tuesday morning.

Europe’s largest low-cost airline said it would sue the Commission for “‘its repeated failure to take action on a number of state aid complaints involving Air France-KLM, Lufthansa, Alitalia and Olympic Airways, which were submitted to the Commission over a year ago'”.

Ryanair alleges hundreds of millions of euros of illegal state aid has subsidised these airlines and that Brussels has failed to act.

source: MSNBC

Ryanair Holdings PLC, Europe’s largest low-cost airline, said Tuesday that it expects the European Commission to block its euro1.48 billion (US$1.9 billion) hostile takeover bid for fellow Irish airline Aer Lingus PLC.

It claimed the decision — to be made before July 4 — was politically motivated and was designed to appease the Irish government.

Ryanair Chief Executive Michael O’Leary said he planned to challenge an EU refusal to approve the takeover at the EU courts.

source: BW

Ryanair has announced it is extending its 10 stg seat sale into the summer peak months of July, August and September in response to continuing softness in the market.

Chief executive Michael O’Leary said the sale of 3 mln seats for 10 stg including charges and taxes, which will cost the company between 25 and 45 mln stg, would stimulate late bookings and increase the airline’s yields.

”Bookings are going very strongly, loads are strong but yields are lower,” he said at a news conference in London. ”It’s good for passengers but bad for profits.”

source: Forbes