Newquay airport saw a substantial drop in passenger traffic last year. New figures revealed this week that the facility saw 26 per cent fewer passengers in 2011 compared to the previous year, marking the largest drop-off among airports in the United Kingdom. Experts note that the statistics, which came via the Anna.aero analysis firm, mirror [...]

Budget airline Ryanair has released revealed profits for the first quarter. Figures released on Monday showed the carrier’s earnings rose to 502.6 million euro (£405 million) for the three months leading up to 31 March. Despite the 25 per cent increase, carrier officials said that a repeat of such performance was unlikely for the remainder [...]

Ryanair, the Irish budget airline, has announced that it will now be flying passengers between Edinburgh and Poland on twice weekly services. Michelle Lowe, a spokesperson for the budget carrier, said Ryanair would be flying from the Scottish capital to Szczecin in Poland on Saturdays and Tuesdays. She added that as a celebration of the [...]

A new report suggests that budget airlines may be charging families more to travel than their mainstream rivals. The travel comparison website responsible for the study found that once the extra costs of administrative services, priority booking, seat reservations and baggage surcharges were taken into account, the price of a ticket with a low-cost carrier [...]

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 [...]

The cost of flying from the UK has become more expensive after a 10 per cent hike in Air Passenger Duty. The increase was made known in Chancellor George Osborne’s budget and has been condemned by airlines and travel associations. A family of four travelling to Florida will now have to come up with an [...]

A number of the country’s leading airlines have come together to ask the government to scrap its plans to hike Air Passenger Duty in April as a way of preserving jobs and aiding economic recovery. The tax is due to go up by eight per cent at the beginning of next month. The chief executives [...]

The top official for Ryanair has accused the Office of Fair Trading of being unfair in its handling of the sale of BMI. Chief executive Michael O’Leary said that the OfT was favouring British Airways’ and Iberia parent firm International Airlines Group (IAG) in the buyout of the ailing carrier from German owners Lufthansa by [...]

Budget carrier Ryanair has said a dispute over costs with the British Airports Authority led to its decision to cut flights. Officials from the Irish carrier said this week that the flights trimmed from Edinburgh airport – Scotland’s busiest air gateway – come as a result of the BAA turning down the company’s request for [...]