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Ryanair ticket promotions arrive so frequently that investors tend to ignore them. Sure, a £15 flight to Frankfurt sounds like suicidal economics but why worry if profits are soaring?

But this week was different. Europe’s largest budget airline launched its biggest ever fare sale, days after admitting it was struggling to fill its planes. Analysts were extremely surprised to see that the airline was discounting 10m tickets during its most profitable time of year. For all the regulation bluster from Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary about “kicking the competition”, something was wrong. Some analysts have also asked if the onslaught from environmental organisations is having an effect.

source: Guardian.co.uk

The low-cost airline, Ryanair, has announced that it expects to reach passenger volume of 285,000 through Málaga this year, thanks to three new routes brought in this year.

The latest will be in October, with four connections a week to Düsseldorf, expected to generate 60,000 passengers.

The airline introduced earlier in the year new routes to other cities in Germany: Frankfurt and Bremen. They also operate links from Málaga with Dublin, Shannon and Brussels.

source: typicallyspanish.com

Ryanair opens new routes from Dublin to Alicante, Spain, and Bydgoszcz and Gdansk in Poland today.

Alicante becomes Ryanair’s twelfth Spanish route from Dublin while the addition of Bydgoszcz and Gdansk brings Ryanair’s Polish routes from Dublin to eight.

source: hemscott.com

Ryanair said Thursday it was expanding its route network for its newest hub in Bremen, northwest Germany.

Europe’s largest no-frills airline said it planned to open seven new routes in mid-September, taking the total number of routes to 18, just weeks after opening services in Bremen.

New twice-weekly services would link Bremen with Alghero in Sardinia and Trapani in Sicily; three-times weekly with the Slovak capital of Bratislava, Malta and Stockholm; four-times weekly with Italy’s financial capital, Milan; and daily with Paris.

source: Forbes

Ryanair is due to outline its opposition to the planned new terminal at Dublin Airport during an oral hearing in the city today.

The airline is one of seven objectors making submissions to An Bord Pleanala in relation to the planned development.

Yesterday, the Dublin Airport Authority made its case in favour of the terminal, which its plans to build for just under €400m.

source: belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Budget carrier Ryanair is considering launching a separate airline that would fly long-haul between Europe and the United States around the turn of the decade.

Ryanair on Thursday confirmed comments made in an interview by Chief Executive Michael O’Leary that he has already had speculative approaches from U.S. airports about setting up a service.

More competition is expected on trans-Atlantic routes after the European Union approved an aviation deal with the United States last month to open up the restricted routes to new rivals.

The “‘Open Skies'” deal, which takes effect from the end of March 2008, will allow airlines to fly from anywhere in the EU to any point in the U.S., shedding limitations that also discourage them from charging what they like or combining with other carriers.

source: USA today

Irish low-cost airline Ryanair Holdings PLC seeks to transport 9 million passengers in Spain this year, Sinnead Finn, the company’s head of sales and marketing for Europe, said Wednesday.

Ryanair began operations in Spain in 2002 and now operates 127 routes out of 19 Spanish airports. Last year, Ryanair upgraded Madrid to a base airport and added regional flights from the Spanish capital. Ryanair also uses Girona, in northwest Spain as a base airport.

Competition among low-cost carriers in Spain has heated up recently, after U.K. carrier EasyJet PLC, Ryanair and Spain’s Vueling Airlines SA have increased flights and added new destinations.

source: Marketwatch

Irish low-cost airline Ryanair plans to start serving larger airports in a bid to double passenger numbers, its chief executive said in an interview with German business magazine WirtschaftsWoche.

“‘If we want to be so big in five years’ time, we can’t avoid such airports,'” Michael O’Leary told the magazine in an interview released ahead of publication on Monday.

Ryanair has focused its network so far on airports where landing fees and other costs are low.

“‘Five years from now we will carry 85 million passengers, twice as many as today, and will have expanded our network,'” he said.

Ryanair plans to use part of its EUR2.4 billion euro (USD$3.2 billion) cash pile to pay a special dividend or buy back shares at the end of the year, the magazine said.

source: Airwise

Irish low-cost airline Ryanair plans to start serving larger airports in a bid to double passenger numbers, its chief executive said in an interview with German business magazine WirtschaftsWoche.

“‘If we want to be so big in five years’ time, we can’t avoid such airports,'” Michael O’Leary told the magazine in an interview released ahead of publication on Monday.

Ryanair has focused its network so far on airports where landing fees and other costs are low.

source: smh

The low-cost airline Ryanair starts a new route from Granada Airport from Tuesday, to East Midlands Airport in Nottingham.

The airline will fly the link three times a week and forecasts 2007 passenger volume of 40,000 people for the new route.
Ryanair began their Granada operation at the beginning of 2005 and also flies to Liverpool, London Stansted, Frankfurt and Milan from the airport which is now known as ‘’Federico García Lorca Granada-Jaén.”

source: Tipically Spanish