A former Ryanair pilot has denied claims by the airline's CEO Michael O'Leary he caused five fare paying passengers to be offloaded from a flight in order to acommodate crew travelling from Dublin to London.

Holidaymakers and other air travellers are being advised to factor in longer queuing times on return trips from European airports due to tighter security checks.

Four months after the Rescue 116 disaster off Black Rock fresh questions have been raised about when the company responsible for an onboard warning system were first alerted to shortcomings in the system, writes Ciara Phelan.

The airline in dispute with a pilots’ union over a proposed Cork-Boston route admits its director of flight operations is not a member of the organisation, as it had originally claimed.

The Norwegian airline planning to launch the first transatlantic flights from Cork has rejected claims its Irish subsidiary will hire staff on lower pay and conditions.

An Aer Lingus cabin crew member is suing the airline over injuries she allegedly received as a result of a hard landing at Naples airport in Italy.

The owner of British Airways has ratcheted up pressure on the Irish Government to agree the takeover of Aer Lingus with the offer of a five year guarantee on crucial Heathrow slots.

A judge has ruled Ryanair is entitled to some documents it sought for its action alleging it was defamed by remarks relating to "low-fuel emergency landings".

Ryanair says public comments made by pilots’ spokesman Evan Cullen about how its fuel policy allegedly affects its safety practices were defamatory, the High Court has heard.

A former Ryanair pilot, who once wrote a letter to the Financial Times claiming the airline’s chief executive, Michael O’Leary, should be replaced by a junior to reduce costs, claims he would still be working for the company if it had not been “completely unreasonable”.

The planned strike by Aer Arann pilots over pay, which had threatened to ground dozens of flights from next Tuesday, has been called off.

Aer Lingus pilots are being balloted for all-out industrial action which could potentially see them on strike alongside their colleagues at Aer Arann.

Ryanair has announced average pay increases of 10% for all its cabin crew as well as increases of up to 10% for a number of its pilots, including those based in Cork and Shannon.

Pilots and cabin crews across Europe are to stage a “walkout for safety” on Jan 22 over proposed “flight time limitations” they say will endanger passengers and crew.

If you’ve been shot, stabbed, or set upon lately, don’t worry, the justice minister will be on the case — just as soon as he has finished trying to win the Pedantic Politician of the Year Award.

The Irish Aviation Authority was warned as recently as last September that the €85,000 fees paid by cadets training with Pilot Training College Waterford were at risk as the company could be in financial difficulty.

The High Court has refused to grant Ryanair an injunction stopping the Irish Airline Pilots Association from using images of its aircraft or fuselage on the association’s website pending the outcome of a full action.

CRUNCH talks aimed at averting industrial action by Aer Lingus pilots and travel chaos were continuing at the Labour Relations Commission (LRC) last night.

THE Labour Relations Commission has intervened in the dispute between Aer Lingus and its pilots in a bid to avert industrial action planned for next Tuesday.

AER LINGUS customers could be facing a summer of discontent after pilots balloted in favour of industrial action late last week.

WITH the busy summer season approaching Aer Lingus is once again facing the threat of potentially disruptive strike action by its staff, this time by pilots angry over rostering arrangements.

The Irish Airline Pilots Association (IALPA) last night informed Aer Lingus it will begin a work-to-rule industrial action today because of “bizarre and inhumane” rostering arrangements.

YET another war of words has broken out between Aer Lingus and its pilots over attempts to bring in a new savings programme at the airline.

PILOTS at Aer Lingus have voted to accept a €30 million cost-cutting package that will involve almost 80 of them losing their jobs and the rest facing 10% pay cuts.

Aer Lingus pilots have voted to accept a €30m cost cutting plan.

THE loss of more than 1,000 Aer Lingus jobs now appears unavoidable after last-gasp talks between management and pilots failed to create an agreement.

Aer Lingus Chief Executive Christoph Mueller this morning laid the blame firmly at the feet of the airline's pilots for the failure of management and unions to reach agreement on the former State carrier's cost-cutting plan.

AER LINGUS last night confirmed it is to press ahead with €97 million in cost-saving measures with the loss of almost 900 jobs, 200 more than it had originally intended.

IN fraught exchanges at an Oireachtas Committee, Aer Lingus management has been told the company would lose goodwill among staff and the public if it pressed ahead with its restructuring plan.

Irish pilots are taking part in a Europe-wide campaign calling for a change in laws on the amount of hours they can work.

LONG flight times, night flights, shift work, jet lag and early starts are all factors in cockpit fatigue that need to be addressed through changes to existing regulations, according to pilots’ unions.

Aer Lingus is reportedly facing another severe round of cost cutting as it fights for survival.

The increasingly bitter dispute between Aer Lingus staff and management worsened tonight after four pilots were suspended for refusing to train new recruits.

AER Lingus has threatened to suspend pilots from 10am today if they do not assist with recruitment and training of pilots for the new Belfast base.

The Government has broken its promise on the future of Aer Lingus by allowing it to end its Shannon-Heathrow link, Opposition leader Fine Gael’s Enda Kenny said today.

AER LINGUS pilots and management are to work into the night tonight to try to reach some accommodation aimed at stopping further strike action threats by the pilots.

The Taoiseach and his government ministers should hold their first post-summer Cabinet meeting in Shannon to personally gauge local anger over the decision by Aer Lingus to switch Heathrow flights from the Mid-West hub to Belfast, it was claimed today.

Aer Lingus pilots have offered to call off their plans to go on strike for two days from midnight tonight.

Executive members of the Irish pilots’ union will meet today to consider an invitation from Aer Lingus to enter talks.

THE European Commission has issued advice on entitlements to more than 30,000 passengers whose Aer Lingus flights have been cancelled due to strike action by pilots next Tuesday and Wednesday.

The trade union IMPACT is attacking the Aer Lingus chief for going over the heads of union bosses.

The Government tonight dismissed calls from a senior Cabinet minister to force Aer Lingus to reverse its controversial cutback plan at Shannon.

Aer Lingus says it has contingency plans in place to minimise the disruption that will be caused by next week's planned pilots' strike.

Embattled Aer Lingus chiefs tonight vowed to carry almost a quarter of its passengers facing disruption during next week’s planned pilots’ strike.