Tag: Ryanair

Skytanking signs 6-year ground handling partnership with Ryanair

Skytanking signs 6-year ground handling partnership with Ryanair

Skytanking and Ryanair this week announced a 6-year ground handling partnership at "key airports" across Europe. Effective from April this year, the partnership will see the aviation services provider support Ryanair’s growing operation with ground handling services across European airports, su...

Ryanair issues warning to UK travellers amid French air traffic control strike

Ryanair has issued a warning to British travellers as the airline grapples with flight cancellations prompted by a strike from air traffic control workers in France, commencing on Monday, November 20. A spokesperson for Claims.co.uk has outlined the potential risks for individuals booking package h...

Passengers board a Ryanair flight.

Ryanair named worst airline for hidden fees in new report

A new study into airlines and "drip pricing" has found that Ryanair is the worst for hidden fees compared to other European carriers. NetVoucherCodes produced a report last week that shows the airline's hidden fees make its base fare 344 per cent more expensive. "Drip pricing" is term used to ...

Ryanair Repeats Call On European Commission To Protect Overflights During French Air Traffic Control Strikes

Following yesterday’s (14 Feb) confirmation that French Air Traffic Control (ATC) will strike again tomorrow (Thurs, 16 Feb) for the 5th time this year (almost 1 per week), Ryanair is once again calling on the EU Commission under President, Ursula von der Leyen, to step up and take immediate actio...

Baltic Ground Services renews a contract with Ryanair, further strengthening successful partnership

Baltic Ground Services (BGS), a full-range provider of aviation services and a family member of Avia Solutions Group, leaders in end-to-end capacity solutions for passenger and cargo airlines worldwide, has extended their partnership with the leading low-cost airline Ryanair. Under the renewed pa...

Swissport Starts Up Aviation Fueling in Finland

Swissport will be providing aviation fueling at Helsinki Airport in Finland. They will take over the operations of Shell Aviation, including a customer portfolio of leading international carriers. Swissport is expanding its fueling business in Northern Europe. The start of operations for its new ...

Ryanair launches electric handling In 11 major European airports

Ryanair, Europe’s no. 1 airline, has today (27 Oct) launched electric handling at eleven major European airports – Alicante, Barcelona, Madrid, Malaga, Mallorca, Seville, Santiago, Valencia, Amsterdam Schipol, Gothenburg-Landvetter and Oslo – enabling zero emission turnarounds. These latest...

Aviator signs a partnership agreement with Ryanair

Aviator, a full-range provider of aviation services at 15 airports across the Nordics and a family member of Avia Solutions Group, signed a partnership agreement with Ryanair for ground handling services. Under the new partnership, Aviator will provide Ryanair with full passenger- and ramp-handli...

GSE maker Mallaghan unveils new bus with Ryanair as launch customer

GSE maker Mallaghan unveils new bus with Ryanair as launch customer

Ground support equipment (GSE) manufacturer Mallaghan has unveiled its new airport bus at this year’s Inter Airport Europe trade fair in Munich. The company, known for catering trucks, passenger stairs, medical lifts and a variety of other GSE products, made the announcement alongside Adrian D...

Blue Handling creation at London Stansted already paying off for Ryanair

Ryanair and Omniserv say Blue Handling – the new ground handling provider established at London Stansted Airport in February – has already delivered a 90 per cent improvement on performance and satisfaction levels compared with a year ago. Blue Handling is responsible for the Irish low-cost ...

Prestwick Airport to be sold by Scottish Government

The Scottish Government has announced its decision to sell Glasgow Prestwick Airport to the private sector, six years after buying the airport for just £1. The purchase in 2013 was made to safeguard jobs connected to the airport, and also to protect what was seen as a strategic asset. “Sin...

Airlines allocated space in terminals at Berlin’s new airport

Establishment of the airlines’ location for flight operations has begun at Berlin Brandenburg (BER) Airport as the airport and its partners prepare for operations next year. With just under a year and a half before the October 2020 opening, the establishment of the airlines’ location for f...

Minor ramp collision occurs in East Midlands fog, reports claim

Two aircraft were involved in a minor ramp collision at East Midlands Airport this morning during foggy conditions, according to reports. A passenger waiting to take off on another plane said one aircraft on the ground appeared to clip a stationary plane at about 07:50 BST. The airport’s...

Exeter Airport begins construction of new boarding gate area

Exeter Airport in the UK, has begun construction on a new boarding gate area in preparation for a busy 2019, which will see the first ever series of flights from Ryanair. Initial ground works are underway for the construction of the new boarding area and a passenger pre-flight waiting area is being...

Winging it: Ryanair caught throwing buckets of hot water to de-ice plane

A video posted on social media last week, has revealed how ground crew members, at Brindisi Airport (BDS), used a bucket of hot water to de-ice an airplane by climbing stairs and throwing it over the wings. Ryanair’s approach to de-icing, caught on camera by Italian politician Mauro D’Atti...

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