Ryanair has confirmed plans to move into Lufthansa’s home hub of Frankfurt, stepping up its push into bigger airports and ratcheting up pressure on the German carrier which is expanding its own budget flights.

Lufthansa’s supervisory board is to meet on April 27 to discuss buying the 55% of Brussels Airlines which it does not yet own, German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported yesterday.

A German court has today issued an injunction ordering a halt to a strike by pilots at Lufthansa, the country’s biggest airline.

Irish travel software firm Datalex is continuing on an upward curve with new customers driving revenue growth in the first half of the year.

Pilots at German airline Lufthansa have extended their two-day strike to long-haul flights in an ongoing dispute over retirement benefits.

Travel software company Datalex has reported a 14% increase in revenues in the first half of the year, thanks largely to the addition of a number of new customers.

Air France and Germany’s two largest airlines have cancelled more flights to Tel Aviv because of continuing safety concerns amid the fighting between Israel and Hamas.

Travel software company Datalex expects to announce its first non-aviation-based customer partnership this year, with the addition of rail operators.

Ryanair has announced a 10% jump in profit for the first half of the year to €596m.

The biggest strike in Britain for over 30 years got under way today with schools, hospitals, courts, transport and government hit by a walkout involving up to two million workers.

AER Lingus can survive as a standalone airline but it might prefer to sell a stake to a larger player to take part in the sector’s consolidation wave, its chief executive has said.

A plane with 63 people on board lost air pressure after an object hit its windshield and was forced to make an emergency landing at Sweden’s Landvetter airport, officials said today.

European Union and Danish officials have named and shamed more online travel operators and airlines in an ongoing crackdown against misleading ads and rip-off consumer price schemes.

Security personnel and firefighters staged a wildcat strike at Brussels International Airport today, causing widespread delays and cancellation of flights.