A FORMER British Midland air hostess has failed in her bid to receive redundancy payments under Irish terms, having already accepted a package under British law.

Ryanair has expressed its fury today after Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey announced that the Dublin Airport Authority is to operate the new Terminal 2 at Dublin Airport.

I WISH to correct the numerous misleading claims made by the Paul O’Kane of the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) in his letter (November 17) regarding the DAA and its white elephant, €1.3bn Terminal Two (T2).

Germany’s flagship airline Lufthansa was today set to take control of a UK carrier for the first time after agreeing to buy a majority stake in British Midland in a deal costing £223m (€263m).

Lufthansa’s takeover of British Midland was approved by the European Commission today.

German airline Lufthansa today lowered its full-year profit forecasts as a result of the economic slowdown and higher fuel costs.

THE Government has less than a week to salvage a Shannon/Heathrow service for 2008, it emerged yesterday.

EMPLOYERS from across the mid-west will gather for a bigr business meeting in Shannon tomorrow amid concerns that the loss of Aer Lingus’s Heathrow link will cripple the regional economy.

Bad weather in the UK means some flights to and from Irish airports are delayed.

A strike threat by airline catering workers at Dublin Airport has been averted, it emerged tonight.

THE need to implement a €6m proposal to improve facilities at Kerry Airport was highlighted yesterday.

New moves to ban airlines discriminating against the disabled were announced by the European Commission today.

AER LINGUS is to review its policy on transporting bodies as the mother of a young man who died in Australia revealed she spent days attempting to sort out the return of his remains.

AIR FRANCE and BMI turned up the heat on Aer Lingus yesterday when they said they were ready to exploit the gap left behind when the national flag-carrier closes down most of its short-haul cargo operations.

RYANAIR has joined with other European low-fares airlines to challenge new European Union legislation guaranteeing compensation to passengers who are denied boarding or are subject to flight delays or cancellations.

The sale of Belfast City Airport by its cash-strapped Canadian owner was expected to be announced today.

I CHANCED upon a press release from Brussels this week and it makes interesting reading for more than one reason.

A flight from Belfast to London was forced to make an emergency landing after developing technical difficulties.

EasyJet is replacing fuel pumps in five of its Boeing 737 aircraft following a safety alert.

A low-cost airline was today criticised by the advertising watchdog for making cheap flight claims.

A British Midland flight arriving from London had to abort its landing at Dublin Airport yesterday, it was revealed today.

Department store group John Lewis Partnership is the biggest private company in Britain with annual sales of more than £4 billion while four of Richard Branson's companies make the list, it emerged yesterday.

The US government is on the verge of approving Delta Air Lines Inc and Air France's application for anti-trust immunity to deepen their transatlantic alliance, according to a source familiar with the negotiations.

Low cost airline easyJet announced today it was bidding to take over the Heathrow to Belfast route being dropped by British Airways as part of its cut backs.

Bmi British Midland has told union officials it is to cut 600 jobs.

Airline bmi British Midland today described reports that 650 jobs were to be cut in the aftermath of the US terrorist attacks as ‘‘speculation’’.

British Midland is switching its Northern Ireland operation to the revamped Belfast City Airport, it emerged today.

British Midland staff have accepted a Labour Court recommendation issued earlier today.

Several hundred airport staff have stopped work in support of striking British Midland ground handling workers in the latest escalation of the four-week-old dispute over a decision to sell off the ground handling services at Dublin Airport.

Dublin Airport is preparing itself for disruption this afternoon as hundreds of workers stop work in support of their striking British Midland colleagues.

Striking British Midland staff were prevented from marching through Dublin Airport's departure terminal this afternoon.

Striking British Midland staff are planning to step up their action at Dublin Airport this lunchtime by marching on the Aer Rianta head office.

The ATGWU and British Midland's ground handling staff have rejected the airline's invitation to go to the Labour Court for talks.

British Midland has said its flights out of Dublin are operating as normal today

Aer Lingus flights will resume as normal this morning as further efforts get underway to resolve the cabin crew row that grounded planes yesterday.

Virtually the entire Aer Lingus fleet is being grounded by cabin crew staging a one-day strike over pay.

British Midland is confirming that it has been forced to cancel five of its flights today because of action by its ground handlers at Dublin Airport.

Management at British Midland is in talks with staff this afternoon, in an attempt to avoid any more flight cancellations.

The British Midland strike at Dublin Airport has begun hitting the company's flights.

Striking staff at British Midlands are escalating their industrial action to a full all out strike, instead of returning to work at midnight tonight.

British Midland ground handling staff at Dublin Airport are on strike.

British Midlands staff will return to work at Dublin Airport tomorrow in an effort to resolve the dispute that is threatening to disrupt flights.

British Midland airline has said it will continue to do everything in its power to ensure a successful conclusion to a strike by a group of its staff at Dublin Airport.