Irish carrier Aer Lingus saw its stock price rise today following confirmation that Etihad has become a 2.987 per cent stakeholder in the carrier. Shares jumped 1.8 per cent Wednesday morning on the news, which also said that the Dublin- and Abu Dhabi-based airlines were amid negotiations for developing a fresh alliance. The news follows [...]

Families travelling abroad with budget carriers this summer are being warned that they are facing a dramatic increase in the cost of travelling with extra suitcases. The hardest hit are expected to be those travelling with children who find they are having to pay extra for the extra bags. Ryanair has pushed up the cost [...]

According to budget airline Ryanair, the European Commission discriminates against low-cost carriers in its travel policy. Michael O’Leary, Ryanair’s chief executive, has released emails the company received from the commission’s travel agency Amex. According to the communications, Amex is not permitted to book budget flights to and from Charleroi Airport in Brussels. Mr O’Leary first [...]

Like many carriers across Europe, Aer Lingus announced that 2010 saw a return to profit, but that the coming year is bound to be a challenging one. The Irish flag carrier managed to turn round a loss of €130 million during 2009 to report that it made €47 million in 2010. It managed this even [...]

Australian flag-carrier Qantas is set to sign a deal with Solena, a fuel producer based in the US, to create the world’s second plant which will produce biofuels on a commercial scale with which to power its planes. The deal is expected to be confirmed later this month. The move follows a deal already in [...]

The US state of Maryland has taken measures to ensure British Airways service remains at Baltimore-Washington airport. State officials decided last week to retain a subsidy for the Heathrow-based carrier in order to keep its flights, as well as its associated economic advantages, operating from BWI, aka Thurgood Marshall Airport. Under the measure, the airline [...]

Newly released figures show that air traffic across Europe recovered during the month of November. Experts say that the improvement shows that long-term recovery is not fading away as some have speculated, however they warn that figures seen following December could be lower than expectations due to severe weather and industrial action. European air traffic [...]

A change in wind direction over the skies of Europe, bringing with it the cloud of ash from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland, could once again cause disruption for air travellers. Icelandic meteorologists have confirmed that the wind is no longer pushing the volcano’s plume of ash northwards. The wind recently started blowing in a [...]

Aer Lingus, the Irish national airline, has met with delays in the proposed release of its latest profit figures owing to cabin crew members rejecting a range of new cost-cutting proposals. Raher, the under-fire carrier will instead issue a new trading update and will delay the release of the much anticipated profit details for a [...]

Minister Tony Killeen told that budget airline Ryanair had recently withdrawn its earlier decision to stop its flight services from Shannon to Liverpool and Edinburg. He said that Ryanair summer flights will continue to operate every Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. Minister Killeen also confirmed Ryanair’s continued services to London Gatwick, Malaga, London Stansfed, Palma, Nantes, [...]