Ryanair traffic soars while O’Leary pushes for Spain and Italy to join UK travel green list June 2, 2021 Ryanair traffic soars more than 2,400 per cent year-on-year in May as EU skies begin to reopen
Wizz Air crashes to €576m annual loss as it waits for Covid recovery June 2, 2021 Wizz Air crashes to €576m annual loss as it waits for Covid recovery
Ryanair boss calls for open travel to all EU countries June 1, 2021 Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary has urged the government to open up travel to all EU countries to enable Brits to enjoy restriction-free summer holidays abroad. The budget airline chief called on transport minister Grant Shapps to ease international travel rules within the bloc for anyone who has been fully vaccinated at the next review of [...]
Russia to set up 20 new military units in west to counter Nato’s ‘growing threat’ May 31, 2021 The Russian military will form 20 new units in the country’s west this year to counter what it claims is a growing threat from Nato. Defence minister Sergei Shoigu made the announcement at a meeting with top military officials. He pointed to a growing number of flights by US strategic bombers near Russia’s borders, deployments [...]
Exclusive: Belarusian President Lukashenko sued for hijacking a plane with criminal intent May 28, 2021 Following the diversion of a Ryanair flight carrying 126 passengers last weekend, including Belarusian journalist Raman Pratasevich who was subsequently detained, Reporters Without Borders is suing the country’s president in a Lithuanian court. The media advocacy group filed a suit in Lithuania’s capital Vilnius, urging the country’s prosecutors to investigate Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko for [...]
Around 500 farmers with UK visas are trapped in Belarus after the flight ban May 28, 2021 Around 500 farmers from Belarus, who were recruited under a government visa scheme, have been left trapped in Belarus after the UK banned flights from the country this week. Trying to help the UK with its summer harvest, farmworkers have been trying to find indirect flights from neighbouring countries to get to the UK, after [...]
Raab welcomes aviation watchdog probe into Belarus plane grounding May 27, 2021 Dominic Raab this evening said that the UK welcomes a probe into the forced landing of a Ryanair flight by Belarus on Sunday. Earlier today Ireland’s transport minister said that air travel watchdog International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) would investigate the incident, which has been met with international outcry. Belarus scrambled a fighter and used a [...]
Ryanair’s O’Leary hammers Irish government over ‘untold damage’ to aviation May 27, 2021 Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary has accused the Irish government of bringing “untold damage” on the aviation and tourism sector. The budget airline’s chief executive also criticised transport minister Eamon Ryan for having no “plan, policy or commitment” on aviation, and said the government should announce an “immediate rescue plan” for the sectors. The carrier recently [...]
Belarus president claims journalist pulled from plane was plotting a ‘bloody rebellion’ May 26, 2021 The president of Belarus has said that the journalist pulled off a plane that was grounded in Minsk had been plotting a “bloody rebellion”. Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko went on to accuse the West of starting a “hybrid war” against him, in his first public comments since the incident on Sunday. The Ryanair plane, which [...]
Norwegian Air emerges from restructuring with wings clipped May 26, 2021 Norwegian Air has today emerged from a six month restructuring process, defying those who thought the pandemic would spell the end for the carrier. However, despite surviving the worst aviation crisis on record, the airline will return to the skies in utterly different shape – and much smaller – than it was before the pandemic [...]