Budget Airlines

Ryanair Brands Customer An 'Idiot Who Deserves To Pay For Her Stupidity'

Huffington Post UK | Posted 05.09.2012 | UK

Ryanair’s chief executive Michael O’Leary has slated a passenger who complained about the airlines’ excess charges on Facebook, calling her an i...

EasyJet To Introduce Allocated Seating

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 05.09.2012 | UK

Low-fare airline easyJet is to introduce paid-for allocated seating for all flights. Passengers will have the option to choose from three brands of...

Airline's 'Crafty' Credit Card Fees To Be Included In Ticket Price

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 05.07.2012 | UK

EasyJet and Ryanair are among 12 budget airlines that will no longer add last-minute fees on customers paying by debit card, the consumer watchdog has...

EasyJet 'To Allocate Seats'

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 27.03.2012 | UK

EasyJet passengers could get allocated seats in a new initiative being trialled by the budget airline. Currently many passengers on budget airlines...

Sit Back And Enjoy The Ride: Ryanair Unveils Inflight Porn Plans

Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse | Posted 08.01.2012 | UK

Plans by budget airline Ryanair to screen porn, via an online app for smartphones and laptops, have been unveiled in the latest money-spinning proposa...

UK Soldiers Fly To Military Bases - Via EasyJet

Huffington Post UK | Peter Guest | Posted 24.12.2011 | UK

Ministry of Defence personnel will be given discounted fares on the low cost airline EasyJet, as the department tries to trim spending on logistics, t...

Ryanair In Gaffer Gaffe After Tape Used To Fix Window Comes Loose Mid-Air

Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse | Posted 24.12.2011 | UK

Ryanair were left in a sticky situation after attempts to fix a pilot’s window with tape forced the aeroplane to turn back 20 minutes into a flight ...

Ryanair Removes Toilets To Add Additional Seating

The Huffington Post UK | Cosima Ungaro | Posted 12.12.2011 | UK

Ryanair’s new cost-cutting proposal to remove plane toilets would leave more than 200 people having to share one bathroom. This would “lower ai...

RyanAir Gives Cardiac Arrest Passenger A Sandwich - Then Charges Him For It

AOL News | Posted 05.10.2011 | UK

When Per-Erik Jonsson went into a cardiac arrest on a RyanAir flight from the UK to Sweden on Sunday, all the airline staff did was offer him a sandwi...

Administration For UK Budget Tour Company

The Huffington Post | Posted 03.10.2011 | UK

The UK-based budget tour operator Holidays 4 UK has gone into administration with more than 13,000 British holidaymakers who used the company currentl...

"Book Early, Pay Less" - Regional Airports Are Bad For The Community

Tamsin Omond | Posted 02.10.2011 | UK Politics
Tamsin Omond

An airport on your doorstep damages health, diminishes house-price and impairs children's education, yet inceasingly local communities are accepting airport expansions in their back yard.