British Airways’ parent company International Airlines Group has announced that it has established a new airline in Spain which will cater for short-haul and medium-haul travel. IAG was formed at the beginning of the year after BA and Spanish flag carrier Iberia joined forces. The new airline is to be called Iberia Express. The group [...]

Customers looking to fly on Ryanair will soon need to use the company’s prepaid card system in order to avoid additional fees. The low-cost carrier announced today the launch of its ‘Cash Passport’, which from November will enable customers to book Ryanair tickets without fees of as much as £12 per person on a return [...]

Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair has said it will have to increase its fare prices in order to cope with the high price of aviation fuel. The carrier said that although it has already purchased around 90 per cent of the fuel it will use this year, it has had to pay 18 per cent more [...]

Budget carrier Ryanair has said it will be introducing a number of new services from Manchester Airport. The announcement comes two years after the airline fell out with the airport over charges, and cancelled nine routes. By October, Ryanair aims to be serving 13 destinations and plans to increase this number to 26 by summer [...]

A recent report has shown that a bottled water costs up to 11 times more than those sold in a grocery chain. The report comes via travelsupermarket.com and showed that food items onboard budget airlines see massive mark-ups; a four-person family could quickly spend £45 on a drink, a bag of crisps and a sandwich [...]

Gatwick Airport will have to revise the way in which it handles its charges for baggage and check-in after the Civil Aviation Authority upheld a complaint made by Ryanair. The low-cost carrier said it was unfair for passengers who had checked-in online and who were only travelling with hand luggage to have to pay the [...]

As warnings that Iceland may be entering a phase of increased volcanic activity come from experts, the UK government has appointed a top scientist to oversee how the country should react to future ash clouds. Airlines in the north of England and Scotland had their schedules disrupted recently after the Grimsvotn volcano spewed ash into [...]

The first ‘child-free’ holiday brand has been launched in the UK. Thomson Holidays’ new Thomson Couples brand got underway on the 27th of May, promising customers pleasant holidays in environments void of children. The news marks the latest notion that many travellers are becoming less tolerant of those travelling with the whole family. The company’s [...]

Normal service is resuming in the skies over northern Germany following the disruption caused by a volcanic ash cloud blowing in from Iceland. Berlin, Bremen and Hamburg airports were all closed for several hours amid fears that ash could cause airliner jet engines to fail. According to Eurocontrol, Europe’s air traffic control service, around 700 [...]

Fears that the latest volcanic eruption in Iceland could cause airline fleets to be grounded as an ash cloud spreads towards Europe have caused shares in the largest carriers to drop. Flights in and out of Scotland have already been cancelled and the Civil Aviation Authority has warned airlines to be prepared for further disruption. [...]