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Ryanair limp profits, still on better side

Ryanair limp profits, still on better side

According to the CEO Michael O'Leary of Ryanair, the group sees to move on with huge prospects to nurture its business throughout Europe.

Ryanair ventures are known to be the Europe's biggest discount airline, recorded a quarterly profit which has beaten the analysts' approximation and predicts that the fares may plunge up by as much as 15 percent in the recent period.

Ryanair to pay damages to easyJet

Ryanair to pay damages to easyJet

The Irish accounts maintained airline Ryanair expressed on Thursday that it has nodded to shell out to make slander damages to the originator of competing carrier easyJet for fallaciously blaming him of stifling the reports regarding the company's performance.

Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou of easyJet has taken legal action against Ryanair as the ads which blamed him of obstructing the publication of weekly reports on easyJet's on-time concert. The ad, that depicted Stelios with as a snob, reiterated him to stop lying.

Ryanair Welcomes Aer Lingus Shareholding

Ryanair Welcomes Aer Lingus Shareholding

The ruling passed by the general Court on an plea made by the Ryanair in opposition to the European Commission's refusal for its conquest bid and the appeal made by Aer Lingus in opposition of the regulatory rejection for its plea to order that Ryanair deprive stake in Aer Lingus.

The Commission that entails the 27 nations European Union's competition implementation expressed that in the year 2007 the decision that the joint air carriers should be overriding on many paths, indicating its second veto of the merger in the four years.

Ryanair tickets for £5

 Ryanair tickets for £5

Ryanair's chief executive, Michael O'Leary, is all set to wave the proposals today which shall entail charging customers to use the washroom as well. The area shall be bringing into inception with vertical seats that shall be introduced at the back of its fleet of 250 planes.

Ryanair announces cuts in UK winter capacity, citing costs

Ryanair announces cuts in UK winter capacity, citing costs

Irish no-frills carrier Ryanair has announced its plans to slash winter capacity in Britain by 16 per cent.

Budget airline’s chief executive Michael O’Leary blamed higher taxes in Britain for the potential cuts and added that they would shift aircrafts to other European countries such as Spain, which impose lower passenger taxes and offer cheaper airports.

Ryanair curtailing 16% UK Winter Capacity

Ryanair curtailing 16% UK Winter Capacity

The low budget carrier, the Irish airline Ryanair Holdings, expressed on Tuesday regarding its plans for curtailing its U. K. winter flight capacity by 16% due to the U. K.'s tourist tax, however it hasn't planned for curtailing the capacity of the winter flights at Edinburgh and Leeds-Bradford airports.

Ryanair Hunts for New Phones Partner

Ryanair Hunts for New Phones Partner

Reports said that yesterday, Europe’s largest budget airline, Ryanair declared its plans to close its in-flight phone service.

This is said to be done after the trial with OnAir ends, and in its place, Ryanair plans to find a new provider to begin the facility across its fleet.

According to the Irish airline, the contract for a year and a month would close down because there was disagreement between the carrier and OnAir on the timing of putting the service on the remaining 230 aircraft of the airline.

Easyjet founder to sue Ryanair’s CEO over Pinocchio jibe

Easyjet, Ryanair

Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the founder of Easyjet, has said that he would take a legal action against rival carrier Ryanair’s chief executive Michael O’Leary over an advertising campaign that tried to defame him by depicting him with a Pinocchio-style long nose.

In its recent advertising campaign, the Irish-carrier Ryanair insinuated that the Luton-based Easyjet lied about its punctuality statistics by depicting Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou as a Pinocchio figure.

Ryanair Chief to be Slapped with Lawsuit by EasyJet Owner Over "Despicable Behavior"

Ryanair, EasyJet

Official reports have confirmed that owner of EasyJet, Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou is all set to slap a lawsuit on Michael O’Leary, accusing the Chief Executive of Ryanair of "despicable behavior”, all thanks to an advertising campaign which characterized the Greek entrepreneur as Pinnochio, thereby implying that he had lied about EasyJet’s punctuality statistics.

£8m Investment Confirmed by Ryanair

£8m Investment Confirmed by Ryanair

£8m (€9m) investment was confirmed by Ryanair for a new aircraft maintenance facility at Glasgow Prestwick Airport. A major expansion is planned following the announcement made yesterday regarding new routes and the base that is the biggest maintenance base.

Ryanair raises full-year profit guidance

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No-frills airline Ryanair has raised its profit guidance for the full-year to €275 million, up from its earlier forecast of attaining the lower end of a €200 million to €300 million range, as it saw a sharp decline in third-quarter losses.

The Irish airline said its losses plunged to €10.9 million during the three months to the end of December as compared with losses of €118.8 million in the year ago period.

Revenue jumped from €604.5 to settle at €612 million, representing a gain of 1 per cent.

Ryanair plans cash payouts to investors

Ryanair plans cash payouts to investors

European no-frills carrier Ryanair has announced that it would reward its shareholders with a cash payout of around 1 billion pounds from 2013.

Ryanair has decided not to buy 200 aircraft from Boeing, in a move that will cut back its capital spending considerably in the approaching years.

Commenting on the issue, the budget airline Ryanair said, "We expect our current cash reserves of £2.2bn to grow substantially by March 2013 and we plan to distribute surplus cash to shareholders from that date."

12% Rise Recorded in Traffic by Ryanair

12% Rise Recorded in Traffic by Ryanair

During the month of December, Irish budget carrier Ryanair witnessed a 12% growth in Traffic as travelers continued to make the most of the firm's low fares over the Holiday season.

As many as 4.9 million passengers were flown by the company over the month, as compared to the figure of 4.37 million passengers recorded for December 2008. Load factor, which is the measure of how full the airplanes are, jumped by 2 percentage points to 82%.

Ryanair Ready to Charge Additional Online Fee

Office of Fair Trading

Now online bookings will require the customers to pay more. The Irish low-cost airline Ryanair is now charging additional fees for online bookings of tickets.

John Fingleton, chief executive of the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), condemned the airline company for the new fee charged from the passengers named as "quite puerile”.

Ryanair to Shift Focus of Growth from Fleet to Shareholders’ Dividend

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Boeing seems to have lost a large order for the moment when the on-going negotiations with Ryan-air for 200 aircrafts fell through. The manufacturer was supposed to supply these 200 aircrafts between 2103 and 2016, increasing the Ryanair fleet strength. As stated by Michael O'Leary, Chief Executive of Ryan-air, the problem lay with "a bunch of numpties out in Seattle" who he says couldn’t come to a decision.

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