Articles tagged ‘Ryanair’
London News 08.25
By Chris | August 25th, 2007 |* Porsche driver faces jail time after being clocked doing 172mph down the A420 near Oxford.(DailyMail)
* Ryanair to charge passengers £2 to check-in from next month.(Guardian)
* Playboy store to open on Oxford Street in mid-September.(Reuters)
London News
By Chris | August 22nd, 2007 |* Ryanair banned from claiming its faster and cheaper to fly from London to Brussels than it is to go by Eurostar.(BBCNews)
* Labour starts the mudslinging early in the London Mayoral race.(FinancialTimes)
* Terracotta warriors arrive at the British Museum from China.(Telegraph)
Virtually free airline tickets.
By Chris | May 17th, 2007 |Ryanair is having its cheapest ever sale, 1 Million Seats Free, with tickets at £0.01 and they’re paying the taxes, charges and fees. The offer to book these tickets runs until 21 May 2007 and is for flights from 2 June-16 July and 1 September-27 October 2007.
The tickets are applicable for flying Monday-Thursday and [...]
Trans Atlantic air fares set for a dog dogfight
By Chris | April 12th, 2007 |The headline on tonights London Evening Standard was £7 flights to America on Ryanair. This follows yesterday’s report on budget airline Zoom starting to fly from Gatwick to JFK in June for £129 one way.
Ryanair’s owner Michael O’Leary said his airline, which is one of the big players in the discount flight market in Europe, [...]
Daily Dose 04.11
By Chris | April 11th, 2007 |* Half of the Metropolitan Police had at least 3 weeks sick leave last year. Probably the stress of eating all those doughnuts.(EveningStandard)
* Ryanair making £100million a year in check-in fees. They charge £8 to check-in a bag at the airport.(Telegraph)
* Sailor captured by Iranians admits he cried himself to sleep in his cell after [...]
British Airways top airline for lost luggage
By Chris | April 4th, 2007 |Not a good day publicity wise for British Airways after they were named the worst of 24 major European airlines for losing passengers baggage in 2006 in a report from the Air Transport Users Council(AUC). In their press release the AUC says, ‘According to the airlines’ own data, the major European network airlines mishandled over [...]
Daily Dose 02.09
By Chris | February 9th, 2007 |* Seven Chinese footballers from the team involved in the rough and tumble with QPR at their training ground match are sent home by their squad. Reports this morning said threats had been made by London based triad groups against Rangers players.(BBCNews)
* British lottery operator Camelot to launch world draw with a top jackpot of [...]
Free Flights from the UK
By Chris | February 5th, 2007 |Ryanair are advertising a whole load of free flights from the UK, exclusive of air taxes, on their website.They’re good for travel up to 30 June 07 but the sale ends at midnight tonight.
That’s the good news but Ryanair are also in the news for the amount of money they make charging people for anything [...]
