Budget airline Ryanair has announced profits of 14.9 million euros for the final quarter of 2011. The increase in profit compared to a year earlier has been due to higher ticket prices and better winter weather. Cancellations because of ice and snow meant that the airline issued a loss of 10.3 million euros at the [...]

Budget carrier easyJet has declared a 16.7 per cent rise in revenues for the last quarter of 2011. The airline said that passenger numbers were also up by 8.1 per cent on the same period a year earlier. Although the figures are an improvement, easyJet pointed out that figures for the last three months of [...]

Budget carrier easyJet has been found guilty by a court in France of discriminating against disabled passengers. The airline has been told to pay 70,000 euros (£58,000) for refusing to allow three wheelchair-bound passengers onto its aircraft at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris in 2008 and 2009. Abdelkrim Grini, a prosecutor, declared that the [...]

Despite threats by China to cancel orders with Airbus in reaction to the European Union’s emissions trading scheme, Hong Kong Airlines has confirmed that it has placed an order with the planemaker worth £2.5 billion at current list prices. The contract is for 10 A380 superjumbos. The carbon emissions scheme means that all airlines landing [...]

The introduction of the European emissions trading scheme, which applies to all airlines flying to and from the EU, has resulted in two international airlines declaring that it has forced them to hike ticket prices. Although it is still to announce the details, Lufthansa has said it will be handing the additional cost of paying [...]

United Arab Emirates’ national airline Etihad Airways has announced that it will be increasing its Air Berlin stake to over 29 per cent from its current three per cent share. The deal includes Etihad providing around £165 million in financing over the coming half-decade. Although Air Berlin is currently the second largest carrier in Germany, [...]

A blind woman attempting to fly between Gatwick and Belfast at the weekend was forced to miss her easyJet flight because staff were not convinced that her dog was actually a guide-dog. Joanna Jones was refused access to the flight because of her lack of paperwork. Although Miss Jones had booked her seat a number [...]

Low-cost carrier Jet2 has confirmed plans to increase its presence at Newcastle Airport. The company wants to have six planes permanently based in Newcastle carrying passengers to new destinations in Italy, Turkey and Spain. The expansion plans are expected to create around 100 jobs, and could mean an increase of 80,000 passengers flying out of [...]

Comtel Air, the carrier which found itself accused of asking passengers to hand over extra cash in order to get home this week, has cancelled services between the UK and India this weekend. The incident happened on Tuesday when the plane was making a stopover in Vienna. Due to financial reasons, passengers were asked to [...]

Passengers travelling from India to the UK on Comtel Air have complained that they were asked to pay for fuel. The incident happened during a scheduled stopover in Vienna. The airline has said that it will investigate the allegations that customers were asked to hand over £20,000 to pay for jet fuel. The Austrian airline [...]