Rejuvenated Cue Card ready to tackle King George and hunt £1m bonus December 9, 2015 Some National Hunt horses truly capture the hearts of the public and Cue Card is one of them. Colin Tizzard’s nine-year-old appears to have been around forever. A winner of the Champion Bumper at 40/1 on just his second start in 2010, his last trip to Cheltenham was in March 2013 when he demolished his Ryanair [...]
Ryanair and Wizz Air report jump in passenger numbers December 3, 2015 Budget airlines Ryanair and Wizz Air have both reported a healthy jump in passenger numbers for November. Traffic at Ryanair, which is part-way through its customer charm offensive dubbed "Always Getting Better", rose 21 per cent to 7.71m passengers, while its load factor rose five percentage points to 93 per cent. Rolling annual traffic to November rose [...]
Ryanair is suing Google over search results December 1, 2015 Ryanair is suing Google in Ireland following repeated requests to remove travel comparison site eDreams from search results for the airline. The Irish budget carrier claims eDreams is misleading customers due to similar website layouts. eDreams uses the URL Ryanair.EDreams.co.uk and sells tickets for Ryanair flights with added fees. It follows a successful move by the airline [...]
Paris attacks: Air France, Ryanair, EasyJet, ICA share prices fall in wake of Islamic State attack on French capital November 16, 2015 Airlines' share prices were down on Monday, the first day of trading since the terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday night, in which 129 people were killed. Asia Pacific-listed airlines were the first to feel the brunt, amid concerns over consumer reactions to the coordinated series of attacks, in which gunmen targeted a music venue, a [...]
FTSE 100 index: Banks get some welcome relief from Visa cash – London Report November 3, 2015 The first trading day of November saw the FTSE 100 close flat as the news that Visa Europe is to be bought by US company Visa helped rally banking stocks. The FTSE 100 ended yesterday’s session flat, up just 0.01 per cent at 6,362 points. However, HSBC, which reported a jump in pre-tax profit to [...]
At the close: FTSE 100 closes flat on first trading day in November November 2, 2015 The first trading day of November saw the FTSE 100 close flat as the news that Visa Europe is to be bought by Visa US helped rally banking stocks. The FTSE 100 ended Monday's session 0.01 per cent up at 6,362 points. However, HSBC, which reported a jump in pre-tax profit to $6.1bn (£3.95bn) for the third quarter, [...]
Ryanair share price rises with airline expecting full year profits and traffic numbers to fly November 2, 2015 Profits are soaring for Ryanair, as the low-cost airline expects full year profits to reach the upper end of a range which was recently adjusted upwards. The figures Half year profits jumped 37 per cent to €1.09bn (£780m) in the first half to 31 October. Revenue was €4.04bn, up 14 per cent from the same period last [...]
Customer service: How brands like Ryanair have taken it from ugly sister to Cinderella October 23, 2015 During our annual convention on customer service in Glasgow next month, one of the key speakers will be Carol Anne O’Neill of Ryanair. This might strike you as ironic given the budget airline’s historically poor reputation for pared down, no frills customer service. But it’s a clear sign of how the times are a changin’ [...]
There is something of a renaissance underway around the British coast. And London needs to watch out. October 22, 2015 “Coming from London,” a local journalist asked me as I stepped off the train at Scarborough last week, “do you just see us as a back wash of the Yorkshire backwater?” I was too taken aback to even consider an answer, let alone snap back that I was actually brought up in Derby, went to [...]
Ryanair’s passenger numbers soared in September October 5, 2015 The number of passengers flying Ryanair has soared 12 per cent, with 9.55m traveling on the Irish airline in September, compared with 8.49m last year. Load factors – how many seats were filled – increased four percentage points to 94 per cent. "These record monthly numbers and load factors are due to our lower fares, [...]