The budget airline Ryanair is in negotiations with Munich Airport to start flying from the southern hub as part of a strategy to aggressively expand its German market-share.
A drunken man forced a Ryanair Boeing 737 to land in Berlin after making repeated threats to the crew that he had a bomb on board, police reported on Tuesday.
Michael O'Leary, CEO of Irish low-cost airline Ryanair, hopes to quintuple his market share in Germany at the expense of the national airline Lufthansa.
Ryanair will begin flying out of Hamburg later this year, scrapping its service from LĂĽbeck Airport which is 70 kilometres away from the city and was described as "Hamburg" by the budget airline.
The discount airline Ryanair has announced plans to expands its service in Germany. Beginning in 2013 the Irish company plans to offer services from Dortmund.
A Ryanair plane had to make an unscheduled landing in Berlin on Monday, the airline confirmed, after it developed a technical defect on the way from London to Bratislava.
Budget airline Ryanair is putting its pilots under so much pressure to save money that they are flying with just enough fuel on board to reduce costs – a practice that forced three planes to make emergency landings in Spain recently.
Passenger statistics for this year’s first six months appear to show that Germany’s new flight tax is driving thrifty flyers away from German airports and to neighbouring countries.
This year’s new flight tax has brought in far less money than expected, a media report said Monday. Frugal Germans may be using airports across the country’s borders to save money.
Irish low-cost airline Ryanair said Tuesday that it would make further cuts to its services in Germany owing to a new tax on flights to be levied next year.
Members of a small community near the northern German city of LĂĽbeck have filed a lawsuit against Irish budget airline Ryanair after a low-flying plane allegedly put an 82-year-old woman in the hospital.
A Ryanair flight from Frankfurt-Hahn airport to Rome's Ciampino ran off the runway as it was landing Monday, rattling its 166 passengers but causing no injuries, Italy's ANSA news agency reported.