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Ryanair and easyJet take reserved seating to low-cost battleground

1 December 2011

Ryanair and easyJet are going head-to-head on the new battleground of paid-for allocated seating, as they seek to ramp up passenger numbers.

Ryanair is to extend its allocated seating service across all of its routes from January 2012.

EasyJet said that its prices for allocated seating would “‘stay true to easyJet’s commitments to low fares'”.

Both airlines operate a priority boarding service, which means for an extra charge, passengers can get first choice on seats.

source: marketingmagazine.co.uk


Ryanair claims Spanish victory in screen scraping scrap

27 November 2011

Ryanair has hailed the success of its reCAPTCHA anti-screen scraping security measure claiming two Spanish sites have stopped displaying its prices.

The low-cost airline included the additional security measure from last week, prompting some in the trade to claim it was putting at risk one million of sales, a claim denied by Ryanair.

In the last few moments the carrier issued a statement hailing the move and saying both Edreams and Bravofly had stopped scraping its site for inventory.

source: Travolution.co.uk


Ryanair issues fresh threat over Aer Lingus EGM

26 November 2011

Irish airline Ryanair said it will pursue Aer Lingus directors for a breach of company law if the former state carrier refuses again to hold an extraordinary general meeting.

Ryanair, Aer Lingus’s largest shareholder with a near 30 percent stake, said on Thursday it had the right to request a meeting at which it wanted to discuss Aer Lingus’s 400 million euros ($534 million) pension deficit and a tax settlement.

While Ireland is considering selling its 25 percent stake in Aer Lingus as part of a wider sale of state assets under an EU-IMF bailout, the airline’s pension deficit, larger than its 380 million euros market value, is a major stumbling block.

source: Reuters


Baggage staff get 50p bonus for each piece of Ryanair hand luggage that won’t fit

15 November 2011

Airport workers are being paid bonuses to crack down on travellers with bulky hand luggage.

Ryanair passengers are among those who could face particularly eagle-eyed attention as a result, but other budget airlines are thought to use similar tactics.

Airlines often have contracts giving companies that provide check-in staff a financial incentive to detect passengers with excess baggage.

But yesterday it emerged that the firm providing baggage services for Ryanair at Liverpool John Lennon Airport is passing a cut directly to workers.

source: dailymail.co.uk


Ryanair offers Berlusconi one-way ticket

13 November 2011

Embattled Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has become the butt of a joke used by low-cost carrier Ryanair to advertise one of its flight offers.

”Dear Berlusconi, another opportunity to escape with Ryanair,” the ad posted on the Irish carrier’s website said.

The ad was accompanied by a cartoon-like figure of the Italian premier, holding the latest edition of ”The Girls of Ryanair” – a calendar depicting several Ryanair female staff clad in bikinis.

source: skynews.com.au


Ultrabudget airline Ryanair weighing porn apps

9 November 2011

Ultrabudget airline Ryanair is set to develop apps that will allow air travelers to gamble, play games or watch porn.

However, the company doesn’t even have broadband within its planes, and would need at least a year to implement the technology, according to chief executive Michael O’Leary.

“‘I’m not talking about having it on screens on the back of seats for everyone to see’,” O’Leary told the paper. “‘It would be on handheld devices.'”

source: pcmag.com


Ryanair eyes fresh phase of growth

26 October 2011

Ryanair has ambitious plans to increase the number of passengers flying with Europe’s leading low-cost airline each year from 70m to up to 130m over the next decade, by buying as many as 300 aircraft.

Michael O’Leary, Ryanair’s chief executive, announced that he was looking to take a large delivery of aircraft between 2015 and 2021, and was in talks with US, Chinese and Russian manufacturers.

source: FT.com


Ryanair reveals plan to have just one toilet on each plane

14 October 2011

The move, which takes ‘‘no frills travel” to a whole new level, could see 200 passengers vying to share one facility – forcing them either to wait in very long queues or cross their legs and pray.

Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary said he wants to replace the toilets with extra passenger seats in order to offer cheaper air fares.

He is pressing Boeing to ‘’re-certify” Ryanair’s aircraft to enable six extra seats to be installed, particularly for short-haul flights.

The airline flies only one type of aircraft type, the Boeing 737-800. It has 189 seats on each plane, the maximum allowed under current rules.

source: dailymail.co.uk


Ryanair’s new pre-paid card an ‘insult’ to passengers

5 October 2011

The launch of Ryanair‘s new pre-paid card which will become the only way to avoid the airline’s booking fees has been branded an ”insult” to customers.

From November passengers must book with the MasterCard Cash Passport to escape a £6 each way surcharge.

But Which? said it was a bad deal and warned customers they would be charged £2.50 a month if they did not use the card for more than six months.

‘’Ryanair is making it even more difficult to avoid paying the fees,” said a spokesman for the consumer watchdog. ‘’Before, you had to use any pre-paid MasterCard – now they’re narrowing it even further.”

source: metro.co.uk


Aer Lingus rejects Ryanair’s pay-out call

29 September 2011

Aer Lingus has rejected calls by Ryanair, its largest shareholder, for the Irish flag-carrier to pay a special dividend.

Colm Barrington, Aer Lingus chairman, has told Ryanair that the carrier’s board is sticking by its view of May’s annual meeting that a dividend should be considered once a “‘more durable’” economic recovery is apparent.

Aer Lingus and Ryanair have been locked in a fractious relationship since Europe’s largest low-cost airline by revenue launched the first of two failed takeover bids in 2006. Both bids faltered after objections by the Irish government and European competition authorities.

source: FT.com