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Four low-cost companies had already declared their intention to start flying to Bulgaria after January 1 2007 when the country joins the EU and the aviation market will be liberalised.

Italian Myair announced on October 10 that it would fly from Sofia to Bologne. Irelandâ??s Ryanair, the UKâ??s Easy Jet and Germanyâ??s GermanWings already presented a flight schedule to Sofia airport, Dnevnik said. A number of air companies have applied to fly to Bulgariaâ??s Bourgas airport.

source: Sofia Echo

Ryanair named Madrid as its eighteenth European base on Tuesday, and said it would start flying from the Spanish capital from mid-November.Ryanair, which launched a 1.48 billion euro (1 billion pounds) bid for Ireland’s Aer Lingus last week, said it expected to fly 1 million passengers a year on the new routes.

The Irish low-cost carrier said in a statement it would fly from Madrid to 14 destinations including Dublin, Paris, Brussels, Oslo, East Midlands and Bournemouth in the UK and Gothenburg and Malmo in Sweden.

source: Scotsman.com

The staff shareholding group at Aer Lingus and several third parties are preparing to block Ryanair’s â?¬1.4 billion takeover bid for the airline.

The body which holds the shares on behalf of staff, the Employee Share Ownership Trust (ESOT), has discussed various mechanisms to finance an additional purchase of shares. Putting its existing shares up as security for a loan has been discussed by trustees of the ESOT.

source: Irish Times Article

Low-cost airline Ryanair has unveiled an offer worth £1 billion to buy the Irish carrier Aer Lingus.

Chief executive Michael O’Leary said the move represented a “unique opportunity” to form a strong airline for Ireland with more than 50 million passengers annually.

Ryanair has already acquired a 16% stake in Aer Lingus – which was listed on the stock market last month – and will make an offer for the rest in a move valuing the carrier at £1 billion.

source: SouthLondon.co.uk

Budget airline Ryanair is extending its operation at Liverpool’s John Lennon Airport with 11 new destinations.
Routes to Santiago, Inverness, Wroclaw, Aberdeen, Kaunas and Ancona officially launched from the airport of Liverpool.

A further five routes – Poznan, Krakow, Tampere, Alghero and Santander – are being launched later in the week.

source: BBC

Ryanair is offering to build a â?¬250 million ($319.5 million) “low-cost, efficient” new terminal at Dublin Airport, operated by itself or an independent operator, and is calling on the Dublin Airport Authority to “scrap” its proposal to build a â?¬760 million terminal that would increase passenger ticket taxes by as much as 25%. Ryanair argues that the proposed Terminal 2 is badly designed, in the wrong location and five times more expensive than similar facilities in the UK and Europe.

fuente: ATWonline

The number of international passengers arriving in Spain with low-cost airlines such as easyJet and Ryanair during August jumped 13.2 percent from last year, government figures showed on Friday.

Spain’s crowded no-frills airline market accounted for nearly a third of flights into the country during the peak travel month.

The figures showed 1.8 million visitors traveled to Spain in August in flights operated by low-cost airlines — 30.2 percent of all international passengers.

Britain’s easyJet flew the most passengers, followed by Ireland’s Ryanair and Germany’s Air Berlin. Unlisted Spanish airline Vueling, a low-cost start-up that began flying in July 2004, was ranked fifth.

source: Airwise

Irish discount carrier Ryanair, Europe’s largest low-cost airline, is opening a second German hub. Ryanair, which also is investing about $128 million to buy a low-cost terminal facility at the Bremen airport, will begin by stationing three aircraft at the northern German field.

Moving into Bremen sharpens Ryanair’s rivalry with Germanwings, Lufthansa’s low-cost airline, which opened its fourth German hub in nearby Hamburg last November.

Meanwhile, Britain’s discount EasyJet also has opened two bases in Berlin-Schonefeld and Dortmund.

source: market-day.net

Ryanair, Europe’s leading low cost airline, is intensifying the competitive battle in the German aviation market by opening a second German base at Bremen.The Irish airline is also investing â?¬10m to buy a low cost terminal facility at Bremen airport after emerging as the successful bidder in an EU tender. This is the second time that Ryanair has decided to invest in local airport facilities. It agreed last year to participate directly in financing the expansion of Frankfurt-Hahn airport by providing a â?¬12.5m loan to fund 50 per cent of the capital expenditure on a new passenger terminal at the airport.

source: msn.com