Reading Time: < 1 minute Italy’s Alitalia has received around 10 non-binding offers for total or partial take-over, including from UAE national carrier Etihad Airways and budget airline Ryanair. The deadline for the loss-making company to receive non-binding offers was 6:00 pm local time (1600 GMT). Alitalia, which has struggled to compete with low-cost rivals including Ryanair, went into administration […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Ryanair plane landed so violently that a passenger “feared the landing gear would snap”. The bumpy landing was filmed by a passenger travelling from Fuerteventure in Spain on Friday and shows the nail-biting moment the plane hits the tarmac with a thud. The passenger filmed the plane coming in to land at Leeds Bradford […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Irish low-cost carrier (LCC) Ryanair has canceled flights to Ukraine it had planned to start in October. According to a Ryanair statement July 10, the decision was made “following Kiev airport’s [Boryspil] failure to honor a growth agreement reached at the Ministry of Infrastructure with airport officials and the current airport director general, Pavlo Riabikin, […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Europe’s largest airline by passengers has said it would invest in struggling carrier Alitalia if it would receive a majority stake in return. Etihad backed Alitalia entered administration in May after staff rejected a last minute restructuring deal that would have shed thousands of jobs but freed up enough cash for the airline to remain […]

Reading Time: 6 minutes Ryanair, Europe’s No. 1 airline, reported a 6% increase in full year net profit to €1.316bn. The combination of a 13% cut in average fares, coupled with Year 3 of the “Always Getting Better” (AGB) programme delivered 13% traffic growth to 120m customers, and an industry leading 94% load factor. Unit costs fell by 11% […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Senior EU officials fear that the airline industry is “in denial” about the potential implications of Brexit, reports The Guardian today. Of chief concern is certain airlines’ continued ability to operate flights between member states once Britain leaves the EU. To do so, carriers must have a “significant” base within the EU and be majority-owned […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Boeing and Ryanair celebrated the delivery of the airline’s 450th Next-Generation 737-800. This significant milestone has been reached in less than two decades, with the Irish low-cost carrier taking an average delivery of 25 737-800s per year since 1999. “Ryanair is proud to partner with Boeing and has operated an all-Boeing fleet since 1994, said […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Budget airline Ryanair is launching transatlantic flights to the US. The low-cost airline is teaming up with budget rival Norwegian to offer long-distance trips to customers from this summer. Air passengers will be able to book cheap flights from a range of UK airports to destinations including New York, New Jersey and Boston. They will […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Many airlines will be severely affected by a week of disruption caused predominantly by striking French air traffic control (ATC) staff. While Air France has indicated that this will not affect long-haul routes and only a handful of medium-haul ones, flights to the south and west of the country will be badly hit. The French […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Ryanair, Europe’s No 1 airline, called on the French Government and European Commission to take immediate action to prevent the skies over Europe being closed yet again by French ATC unions. Ryanair regrets that it has been forced to cancel 45 flights on Monday (6 Mar) to/from/over France, with further cancellations possible and delays likely […]