Eugene McErlean is an expert on banking and corporate governance and he wonders why the improvements seen in aircraft safety which have resulted from disasters over the last 50 years seem like a distant aspiration when it comes to banking. 

Some 113,000 Lufthansa passengers are facing domestic and international cancellations due to all-day walkouts at three German airports staged by a cabin crew union protesting against cost cuts.

Ryanair shares surged as much as 10% yesterday as the airline indicated it had one of its most profitable summers in years.

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

The families of passengers killed in the Germanwings crash will take legal action against Lufthansa in the United States after rejecting the carrier’s compensation offer as inadequate, the Bild am Sonntag newspaper reported, citing the families’ lawyer.

The co-pilot who crashed Germanwings Flight 9525 researched how to get hold of deadly drugs and the possibility of a living will, it has been claimed.

A woman died of breast cancer just days after her third baby was born and after two missed opportunities to diagnose the tumour in her breast, the discovery of a suspected BSE case in Louth ’proves structures are robust’ and Liverpool have rejected a £25m offer for Raheem Sterling. Here’s this morning’s irishexaminer.com round up.

The co-pilot who crashed a Germanwings jet into the Alps feared he was losing his eyesight, and some of the many doctors he consulted felt he was unfit to fly, a French prosecutor said yesterday.

A state prosecutor says a co-pilot with a history of depression who crashed a Germanwings airliner into the French Alps had reached out to dozens of doctors ahead of the disaster, a revelation that suggests Andreas Lubitz was seeking advice about an undisclosed ailment.

The co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 appeared to have practised a controlled descent on his flight into Barcelona just two hours before he intentionally crashed the A320 jet into a mountainside on the return flight to Duesseldorf, air accident investigators said.

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Five years ag,o Federal Aviation Administration officials questioned the mental fitness of the Germanwings pilot who crashed an airliner in the French Alps last month. 

After the Germanwings Flight 9525 flew into the Alps, the cause of violent and suicidal behaviour has again gone under the spotlight as the search for answers begins.

Europe’s air safety regulator says it has found more than 10 incidents in recent years in which Germany appeared lax in following aviation medical requirements, prompting a European Commission investigation that is still under review.

The co-pilot of the doomed Germanwings flight repeatedly sped up the plane as he used the automatic pilot to descend the A320 into the Alps, the French air accident investigation agency said.

The co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 appears to have researched suicide methods and cockpit door security in the days before he flew the plane into the French Alps, killing 150 people.

Just over a week after a Germanwings plane crashed into the French Alps, investigators have finished retrieving human remains from the wreckage.

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The co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 that crashed into the French Alps last week had received treatment for suicidal tendencies several years ago.

Pilots with a history of depression should not be banned from flying commercial jets, according to a leading British psychiatrist, in a warning against a knee-jerk reaction to the French Alps air disaster.

Lufthansa subsidiary Germanwings could face liabilities well above the typical ceiling in airline crashes for the passengers who died on Tuesday when one of its jets was flown into an Alpine mountain, some aviation lawyers said.

Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz appears to have hidden evidence of an illness from his employers, including having been excused by a doctor from work the day he crashed a passenger plane into a mountain.

Graham Dwyer has been found guilty of the murder of Elaine O’Hara, Paul O’ Connell has been named Six Nations Player of the Tournament, and the remains of the crash vitims from the Germanwings disaster are being removed from the alps. 

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The Germanwings airline said it is stunned and “utterly baffled” as to why one of its pilots deliberately crashed a plane into the Alps killing himself and 149 other people.

Shocking revelations of how a Germanwings co-pilot deliberately crashed his own plane killing 150 people, the charging of three more people in relation to the Makayabella drugs seizure and Conor McGregor's geography lesson for UFC boss Dana White are all part of our evening briefing on the latest and most read content on irishexaminer.com right now.   

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A round-up of this morning’s top news.

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

Ryanair has been ordered to repay €500,000 to a small German airport because it was an illegal state subsidy, according to the European Commission.

Pilots at Lufthansa are to take part in a strike affecting long-haul flights from Frankfurt tomorrow, resuming a campaign of targeted walkouts after contract talks broke down last week.

Airlines could be forced to pay compensation to passengers for a delayed flight, even if it touches down on time.

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.

Germany’s Lufthansa airline has announced it is cancelling 3,800 flights because of a three-day strike by a pilots’ union later this week, affecting 425,000 passengers.

Michael O’Leary, who built Ryanair into Europe’s biggest discount airline over two decades, pledged to stay another five years and render its dominance complete as competitors exit short-haul flying.

German airline Lufthansa said today that profits jumped 30% in the third quarter despite a strike and higher fuel prices.

A COLLISION between two commercial aircraft was narrowly avoided at Dublin Airport last year after an alert crew noticed another plane was about to encroach onto the main runway as they were about to land.

Two aircraft came within seconds of colliding on the main runway at Dublin Airport last year, it has emerged.

IRELAND is still perceived as an expensive location, according to tourism chiefs, who say business from Britain has collapsed.

AN airline pilot was forced to declare an emergency after almost all the passengers fell asleep during its ascent just minutes after taking off from Dublin Airport.

Thousands of pilots returned to work at German airline Lufthansa today after a strike was suspended but the carrier warned that it would not return to its normal schedule until Friday.

More than 4,000 pilots at Germany’s Lufthansa airline launched a four-day strike early today that is expected to cause headaches for travellers around the world.

Stronger travel firms and expectations of a further cut in US interest rates ensured the London market traded on the front foot today.