Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary has launched a fresh broadside against Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan as he blamed a passenger cap at Dublin Airport for blocking the airline’s growth. Mr O’Leary said Mr Ryan and his Green Party colleague Catherine Martin, the Minister for Tourism, are “dunces” who should leave politics if they do not […]
Aer Lingus has told An Bord Pleanála that the planned €40 million Ryanair maintenance facility for Dublin airport “will have fundamental impacts on Aer Lingus’s ability to carry out their daily operations”. That is according to an appeal lodged by consultants for Aer Lingus to An Bord Pleanála which now stalls plans by Ryanair to […]
Ryanair has agreed to a deal with On the Beach to list its flights on the holiday platform, drawing a line under a feud between the two travel companies. Shares in On the Beach jumped by 13 per cent on Tuesday morning after the low-cost airline announced the partnership. Ryanair has been in dispute with […]
Holidaymakers will face higher air fares this summer because of capacity constraints, the boss of Ryanair has warned. Chief executive Michael O’Leary said issues limiting the number of available aircraft mean European airlines will struggle to meet demand for travel during the peak season. He predicted that Ryanair’s ticket prices will be up to 10 […]
Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan has accused Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary of being “personally abusive”, after he called the Green Party leader “incompetent” and an “idiot”. The Ryanair boss also called on Mr Ryan to resign over his party’s opposition to raising the cap on passenger numbers at Dublin Airport. A number of Green Party […]
Ryanair has “sincerely and unreservedly apologised” at the High Court to a Cork quantity surveyor who claimed he was wrongly banned from flying with the airline. Eoin Michael Cahill sued the airline, claiming it defamed him after it wrongly accused him of engaging in alleged disruptive behaviour on a date earlier this year, on which […]
Ryanair has said it flew more passengers in January, but revealed it had to cancel more than 950 flights due to the Israel-Hamas conflict. The Dublin-based budget airline said it had 12.2 million customers last month, an increase of 3 per cent on the 11.8 million people it flew during the same month last year. […]
A quantity surveyor has claimed before the High Court that he has been defamed and wrongly banned from flying with Ryanair. The action has been brought by Cork man Eoin Michael Cahill, who said the airline had wrongly accused him of engaging in disruptive behaviour on a date in which he neither travelled on a […]
Ryanair revealed sharply falling profits following a surge in fuel costs and cut its full-year profit outlook after being removed from some online travel agent websites. The budget carrier reported after-tax profits slumping to €15 million for its third quarter to the end of December, from €211 million a year earlier. It said the group’s […]
Irish airline Ryanair could invest an extra €8 billion in Italy if the country scraps a local tax on air tickets, chief executive Michael O’Leary said in an interview published on Wednesday. Speaking to La Repubblica newspaper, Mr O’Leary said he wants to meet Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni and ask her to “create the […]
Ryanair has launched its first partnership with an online travel agent (OTA) despite repeatedly branding the companies “pirates”. The Dublin-based airline said it has agreed a deal with loveholidays to offer its flights as part of package trips. Ryanair has previously strongly complained about OTAs selling its flights without permission. Last week it highlighted […]
Ryanair will deploy more engineers to oversee quality control at US factories building Boeing aircraft for the airline. Michael O’Leary, group chief executive at Ryanair, said the carrier has agreed to step up its activities at the manufacturer’s site in Seattle and Spirit AeroSystems in Wichita, where fuselages are built. This comes after a Boeing […]