All Ryanair articles – Page 27
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Ryanair to open Polish MRO centre
Budget carrier Ryanair is to establish a Polish heavy-maintenance base at the south-western city of Wroclaw next year.
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Ryanair eyes Egypt and Tunisia routes in 2016
Ryanair could start flights to Tunisia and Egypt as soon as summer 2016 if regulatory hurdles and capacity constraints can be overcome.
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OpinionOPINION: Can we all learn to love Ryanair?
Is Michael O’Leary a sinner come to repentance? For years, Ryanair seemed to delight in being vile to customers. Cheap fares, an extensive network, modern (if frill-free) aircraft and punctual service kept punters rolling in. But few would have professed any kind of warm feelings to Europe’s biggest short-haul airline.
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Interview
INTERVIEW: Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary
Ryanair expects to carry 100 million passengers in its current financial year, and the 30-year-old Irish budget carrier seems infused with a new-found respect for its passengers. Or, as chief executive Michael O'Leary puts it: "We've moved from being cheap and nasty to cheap and cheerful."
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Ryanair plans to grow MRO footprint
Ryanair is evaluating where to add maintenance capacity as its fleet expands.
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ROUTES: Lithuania aims to spread traffic across airports
Lithuania is pursuing a strategy of co-operation rather than competition between its three main airports.
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ROUTES: Budapest to extend terminal to cater for LCC growth
Budapest airport has decided to extend its terminal as passenger numbers in 2014 regained their level before the demise of former flag carrier Malev in early 2012.
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ROUTES: Consolidation's merits debated at strategy summit
Europe's airline industry should follow the example of the USA and consolidate into "five or six large airline groups" in order to gain the "scale effects that are needed" to compete, argues Thomas Cook's long-haul network group director Jens Boyd.
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ROUTES: Glasgow predicts 8.3 million passengers over full year
Glasgow airport is aiming to grow its passenger volume around 8% to 8.3 million passengers this year as its traffic gradually recovers back toward the 2006 peak of 8.85 million.
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NewsROUTES: Vueling evaluated long-haul flights – strategy chief
Vueling strategy chief Fernando Estrada has disclosed that the carrier looked into potential long-haul, low-cost flights.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: How Europe's hardest-hit airports are driving growth
Some of the European markets hardest hit by the recession, compounded by the debt and currency crisis in the eurozone that accompanied it, are now leading the pace of growth in the region.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: O'Leary still at first base on transatlantic
For those believing Michael O'Leary's much talked-of interest in launching a transatlantic operation is just another headline-grabbing move by the publicity-hungry Ryanair boss, developments over the last 10 days will have given them more ammunition.
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Ryanair board approves transatlantic plans
Ryanair is in talks with manufacturers with a view to ordering long-haul aircraft after its board approved plans to begin transatlantic flights.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: European carriers' battle for profits continues
A string of one-off restructuring, labour relations, fuel hedging, and currency hits in 2014's fourth quarter – and in the year as a whole – makes for difficulty in unpicking the financial health of European carriers.
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NewsRyanair demands review of Aer Lingus divestment ruling
Ryanair is arguing that its obligation to reduce its Aer Lingus stake should be reconsidered in light of IAG's proposed takeover of the Irish flag carrier.
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Ryanair to trial wireless IFE this summer
Ryanair will this year begin trialling a free-to-access wireless in-flight entertainment service that will stream content from an onboard server to passengers' own electronic devices.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Can European carriers find profits momentum?
European airlines have strengthened their tentative grip on profits in 2014, but restructuring remains very much a work in progress for many.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Ryanair's new profits course takes shape
If there was some scepticism when Michael O'Leary a year ago began taking tentative steps in repositioning Ryanair, a fourth profit upgrade of this financial year suggests that the budget airline many loved to hate is doing something right.
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NewsOptimistic Ryanair hikes full-year profit forecast
Irish budget carrier Ryanair is forecasting a robust winter period, and has sharply raised its profit outlook for the full year following a strong first half.
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NewsAir France-KLM hopeful of reviving European low-cost plan
Ambitions for a pan-European low-cost carrier persist at Air France-KLM, despite the group having abandoned its plan to build up its Transavia subsidiary as a budget airline with bases outside France and the Netherlands.