Ryanair expects “the majority” of its fleet will be grounded while Finnair and SAS are among the latest airlines to stop almost all flights. Air France is also grounding its entire Airbus A380 fleet and KLM its entire Boeing 747 fleet.
Air France-KLM, EasyJet, International Airlines Group and Ryanair all said they will cut most of their flights in the coming days as travel restrictions push demand for air transport close to zero.
Alitalia and Ryanair are cutting more flights to and from Milan airports after Italy’s government implemented strict new quarantine measures on Mar. 8 in a bid to contain the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak.
European airlines were trying to reassure themselves Mar. 3 that the spread of COVID-19 and the demand slump they are currently experiencing will be short-lived and followed by a quick-recovery.
Former Ryanair chief commercial officer David O’Brien has been named joint CEO of Laudamotion, and will work alongside CEO Andreas Gruber, effective Apr. 1.
Irish LCC Ryanair has teamed up with Aviomar Flight Academy to officially launch a Ryanair-mentored pilot training program in Rome that it hopes will train up to 400 new pilots from across Europe in the next four to five years.
Irish LCC Ryanair has welcomed a UK appeal judgment ruling that determines labor strikes qualify as extraordinary circumstances under European Union (EU) passenger-rights rules (EU261).
The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled that Ryanair advertisements, claiming it is Europe’s greenest airline, are misleading and banned the Irish LCC from repeating the ads in their current form.
Ryanair has accepted a mediator’s recommendations on a collective labor agreement (CLA) with Irish pilot union Fórsa, as it warned of possible further jobs because of growing Boeing 737 MAX delays.
Ryanair raised its full-year financial guidance Jan. 10 after what it described as stronger than expected figures over the busy Christmas and New Year period.
This week: Air France-KLM drops Virgin Atlantic deal plans; Ryanair to close two bases; Transavia to start Brussels service; codeshare agreed between Gulf Air and Middle East Airlines and more.
This week: Cebu Pacific adds route to previous World Routes host; Budapest gains another Ukraine service; and United plans Los Angeles – Anchorage resumption.
Armenia currently has no low-cost routes to Western Europe, but that is about to change following Ryanair’s decision to enter the former Soviet republic’s market. Routesonline takes a look at Armenia's growing aviation sector.
Ukraine’s government has laid out an action plan to grow the share of low-cost routes in the country and create conditions for a 60 percent increase in total passenger traffic over the next five years.
Ryanair has warned that it will be forced to cut the number of flights next summer and close some bases because of delays to deliveries of Boeing’s 737 Max aircraft.
Proposed green taxes on airlines will have no positive impact on the industry’s sustainability, senior figures from some of the top carriers have agreed.
Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair is to establish a subsidiary in Malta, with plans to have as many as ten aircraft on the island's register within the next three years. The airline will become the third new brand in the expanding group’s family of carriers.
Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary expects the Irish low-cost carrier’s first five Boeing 737 Max aircraft to be in service during the winter 2019-20 season, but said the grounding of the jet has cost it “about one million passengers this year”.