Irish airline Ryanair has come bottom of a UK survey of favourite airlines, it has been announced.

Thousands of British Airways cabin crew will start voting again today on whether to strike in a bitter row over pay, jobs and working conditions.

Thousands of British Airways cabin crew are to hold a fresh ballot on strikes, raising a renewed threat of disruption to flights, it was announced today.

Thousands of British Airways cabin crew started voting today on whether to launch a pre-Christmas strike in protest at “far-reaching” changes to working practices.

ETIHAD AIRWAYS, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, will launch services from Dublin to Melbourne, Australia from March 2009.

AS part of its first birthday celebrations this month, the Cork International Airport Hotel will be flying the gastronomic flag for Italy in a three-day showcase of the finest flavours and foods from one of the world’s centres of gourmet excellence.

Rapper Snoop Dogg could be heading back to Britain after winning the latest stage in a legal battle to get a visa ban on him lifted, it emerged today.

AER LINGUS chief executive Dermot Mannion told angry workers yesterday that the decision to move aircraft and the London Heathrow (LHR) slots to Belfast was based on projections the move would deliver an extra one million passengers a year.

An Indian doctor released from jail after Australian prosecutors dropped charges linking him to the failed terrorist attacks in Britain gave the thumbs-up sign on arriving in Thailand today.

BRITISH AIRWAYS (BA) yesterday resumed talks with its biggest union in a bid to avert a 48-hour cabin crew strike that could affect more than 140,000 passengers.

RAPPER Snoop Dogg has had to cancel a gig as part of the Freedom Day celebrations in South Africa because he is being held in police custody in Britain.

RAPPER Snoop Dogg has had to cancel a gig as part of the Freedom Day celebrations in South Africa because he is being held in police custody in Britain.

Two seconds before impact, the last man conscious in the cockpit of a doomed Cypriot airliner made a desperate call for help – “Mayday, Mayday” – before the plane carrying 121 people smashed into a mountain near Athens.

A five-year-old boy who was aboard the Cypriot airliner that crashed in Greece was still alive – but only for a second – after the plane slammed into a mountainous area north of Athens, a coroner said today.

A child aged about five of six who was aboard the Cypriot airliner that crashed in Greece was still alive after the plane slammed into a mountainous area north of Athens, Greek state television quoted a coroner as saying today.

A man’s leg and partial torso fell from a South African jetliner onto a suburban New York home yesterday as the aircraft prepared to land at John F. Kennedy Airport, authorities and the airline said.

WHY, oh why, do journalists always focus on the negative, the bad, the tragic side of things? On St Patrick’s Day, when the whole world wants to be Irish, Colette Sheridan thinks St Patrick would be turning in his grave.

BRITISH AIRWAYS (BA) took the latest step in getting its house in order yesterday when it announced plans to sell its 18% stake in Australian carrier Qantas for AUD$1.1 billion (€630 million).

Aussie pop sensation Kylie Minogue brought sun, sand and sexiness to central London today.

Air Miles is giving away 500,000 British Airways flights to more than 80 destinations.