Continental Airlines recently made public the plan to cut down its free in-flight meal service on its short-haul economy flights in the US to save as much as $35 million a year. If implemented, Continental will be the last among major US carriers to offer free in-flight meal service to economy-class passengers. Most airline companies had already pulled the service out since the economic downturn.
However, long-haul passengers and those seating in business class will not be affected by the new scheme and will still get their usual in-flight meal for free. The fourth biggest US carrier has also introduced a [...]

Low cost carriers Ryanair and easyJet was said to have received the most number of complaints last year than any other airline that had been utilized by British passengers.
According to the Air Transport Users Council (AUC), complaints from passengers on both airlines include cancellation of flights, missing luggage and denied boarding. easyJet was hard-hit with a total of 719 complaints followed by Ryanair with 673. Both budget carriers appear to have more and more complaints received since 2005.
The recent conducted survey shows that quality service standard is often forgotten by low fare carriers. Liberal Democrat transport spokesman, Norman Baker, said [...]

Minister Tony Killeen told that budget airline Ryanair had recently withdrawn its earlier decision to stop its flight services from Shannon to Liverpool and Edinburg.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, Wroclaw, Tenerife and Paris Beauvais until the end of summer 2010.
Killeen said that the growth of Shannon Airport depends on the services currently offered. He emphasized that Ryanair’s recent decision complements the UK’s domestic and transatlantic services currently being provided by Aer Lingus and Continental Airlines.
On [...]

Reports have been coming in that show that a Ryanair jet was forced to make an emergency landing in Liverpool on Monday over fears of a fire on board the plane. The plane was en route to Agadir in Morocco from Liverpool’s John Lennon Airport. After a fire indicator light came on in the cockpit, the airplane made a u-turn and landed back at the airport.
The plane, which was a Boeing 737 was forced to return to the airport and make an emergency landing less than half an hour after takeoff. The 116 passengers and crew members that were on [...]

It would now appear that the Office of Fair Trading has come out and made their feelings about Ryanair’s payment policies known. Apparently the Office of Fair Trading feels that Ryanair is being childish and playing funny games with its passengers.
John Fingleton, the Office of Fair Trading chief executive, went on to attack Ryanair, saying that the budget carrier is attacking its passengers with stealth charges buy adding on charges for the use of paying by credit card for all but one card type.
He went on to say that the airline has found a legal loophole to justify charging this [...]

Apparently Ryanair has just recently threatened to stop domestic flights in Italy starting next month amid a dispute with the country’s authorities over new rules on ID documents that passengers can show at airport gates. Ryanair pointed out that Domestic flights operated at 10 Italian airports, which does include Rome and Milan, will be grounded starting January 23 if the issue is not resolved.
Just last month, the Italy Civil Aviation Authority, ENAC, ordered airlines to accept driving licenses, government badges, fishing and hunting licenses, as well as other documents to identify passengers at boarding gates for domestic flights. Ryanair said [...]

It now seems that Ryanair has been dealt a hard blow after being named Britain’s Worst Family Brand. This all comes thanks to a study that was done to find what companies in the UK offer the most family values.
The results of the study show that most people rank Ryanair, the no frills airline, as doing very little to promote family values and does not seem to care or listen to their customers. Almost 100 famous firms in the UK were ranked in this poll that 15,000 Britons took part in.
Although Ryanair came out as the worst company on the [...]

It now seems that Ryanair has just recently announced changes to its card polices. These changes will affect passengers who use their cards to book a flight with Ryanair. As of December 1st, users of the Mastercard Prepaid card will not be charged the £5 per person administration charge.
Despite this good news, there are some bad changes coming as well. Apparently people who like to pay with Visa Electron cards will be faced with a charge for the first time starting January 1st. However, experts point out that this new charge does not come without just cause. Apparently the [...]

Reports now show that Ryanair has just recently announce that it will open its first base in Norway. With the opening of this base, 1,700 jobs will be created. The budget airline said that the base will be made at Oslo Rygge Airport in March
The base, which will be established with $200 million, will get three new aircrafts and 16 new routes. These new aircrafts will come on top of the six that the carrier already has at the airport. The airline hopes that this new base will boost its annual traffic to the airport by 1.7 million passengers.
Michael O’Leary [...]

New reports show that Ryanair is now thinking of easing back on its decade long expansion. This new change in growth strategy comes as the hotel chain aims to keep a lid on its operating costs and keep offering customers low fares.
Ryanair went on to report that it has had a 35 percent jump in its net profits for the three months to September 30th. This is thanks mostly to a 42 percent drop in oil prices when compared to last year. However, without the reduced fuel bill, the airline would not be able to mask its steep 17 percent [...]