Ryanair rival budget airline Wizz Air, which has withstood the pressures in the aviation sector better than many of its rivals, said it would offer new routes from London’s Luton airport to Cyprus, Slovakia, Estonia, Ukraine and Albania.

Michael O’Leary has insisted his employees have the best job security in Europe, as well as a “sophisticated” collective bargaining process.

Low fares regional airline Flybe has warned that first-half profits will be lower than expected, sending shares tumbling as higher maintenance costs compounded a tough airline market.

Low fares regional airline Flybe has warned that first-half profits will be lower than expected, sending shares tumbling as higher maintenance costs compounded a tough airline market.

IAG — the owner of Aer Lingus, British Airways, and Iberia — is interested in the London Gatwick slots of failed airline Monarch after it collapsed last week, IAG chief executive Willie Walsh said, adding that the reduction of capacity was good for the industry.

Ryanair pilots have been encouraged to invoke Winston Churchill in an attempt to deal with their management collectively.

A British bride and groom are facing a race against time to attend their own wedding after their flight was cancelled five minutes before they were due to board.

Update - 10.35am: Around 860,000 customers are affected by Monarch Airlines going into administration, the UK's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has said.

The owner of Norwegian Air is understood to have entered the race to secure a tie-up with Monarch Airlines in an attempt to snatch a bigger slice of Britain's low-cost travel market.

Irish aviation is at the centre of powerful changes and it is having consequences for investments and the direction of companies in the sector.

Sex, money, betrayal: The bizarre brawl between American Apparel and its founder, Dov Charney, has all that and more. But now this tabloid tale is coming down to a seemingly staid bit of finance: The bonds.

IT’S ALL horses for courses for the woman selling this one-off West Cork home, small holding, horse facility par excellence and a whole host more: as an engineer, she’ll simply saddle up and start all over again.

Sam Watson slotted into third after dressage yesterday in the long-format three-star class at the Johnson and Perrott Land Rover International Horse Trials at Ballindenisk, Co Cork, but was in no mood to get ahead of himself.

Castleknock Golf Club was one of seven Monarch Properties companies to record a loss last year.

Aidan O’Brien admitted nerves were jangling throughout the vast Ballydoyle operation as he prepares Camelot for his date with destiny in Saturday’s Ladbrokes St Leger at Doncaster.

Maurice Fitzgerald’s letter about the Labour Party (Apr 18) is an outrageous falsehood.

The tribunal commended current minister and Labour TD Pat Rabbitte for giving back a £2,000 donation he received from lobbyist Frank Dunlop in 1992.

A WOMAN who helped hundreds of Munster rugby fans fly to away games around Europe has admitted giving two charter airlines forged documents, Limerick Circuit Court heard.

Simon Cowell and Cheryl Cole have been turned into Top Trumps.

CASTLEKNOCK Golf Club was one of five Monarch Properties companies to record a profit last year.

AER LINGUS has “wet leased” nine aircraft and crews from other carriers in order to maintain service to passengers for the duration of its dispute with its cabin crew.

RYANAIR might brand itself as a low-cost carrier but the Irish airline has emerged as the most expensive when it comes to the cost of in-flight food and drink.

AIRCRAFT traffic at Cork and Shannon airports has suffered a double-digit decline so far in 2008, according to figures from the Irish Aviation Authority.

EasyJet and Virgin Atlantic may join forces to make a £2.5bn (€2.9bn) bid for Gatwick Airport, it was reported today.

Planemaking giants Boeing will today announce a possible 18-month delay in delivery of its new “green” 787 Dreamliner aircraft which has been ordered by a number of UK airlines.

PROPERTY boss Paul Monahan yesterday described the secretive nature of his father, the late Phil Monahan, who kept him in the dark over how he ran his business — and his contacts with politicians.

FIANNA FÁIL Senator Don Lydon yesterday denounced, as “filth” allegations linking him to bribery in Dublin County Council.

FORMER lobbyist Frank Dunlop was accused at the Mahon Planning Tribunal yesterday of hallucinating when alleging he paid Fianna Fáil councillor Tony Fox £2,000 to vote for a south Dublin housing development in the 1990s.

FORMER Monarch Properties executive Richard Lynn told the Mahon Tribunal yesterday allegations by Bill O’Herlihy and Frank Dunlop that the company bribed councillors were untrue.

FINE GAEL councillor Olivia Mitchell was caught hugging a developer after Monarch Properties won a vital rezoning vote, the Mahon Planning Tribunal heard yesterday.

IT would be like “shooting yourself in the foot” to ignore a politician’s request for a donation towards their election expenses, a former financial director of Monarch Properties development company admitted to the Mahon Planning Tribunal yesterday.

A FORMER finance director of Monarch Properties development company strongly denied at the Mahon Planning Tribunal yesterday that mystery cash payments went to bribe county councillors.

MONARCH Properties made mystery payments of £21,500 around the time it secured vital rezoning of its south Dublin lands, the Mahon Planning Tribunal heard yesterday.

NINE days before Dublin county councillors voted to rezone its lands, Monarch Properties issued a £15,000 cheque to lobbyist Frank Dunlop, the Mahon planning tribunal heard yesterday.

A former financial director of Monarch Properties has admitted paying political lobbyist Frank Dunlop £85,000 between 1993 and 1995.

PROPERTY developer Paul Monahan was warned yesterday he faces High Court proceedings arising from his evidence to the Mahon Tribunal.

FORMER Monarch Properties executive Phil Reilly told the Mahon Tribunal yesterday, he asked his bosses to make political donations to six Dáil candidates because he wanted “the best people” in Leinster House.

GIVING donations to politicians who could benefit the company was “a necessary evil”, former Monarch property company secretary Anne Gosling told the Mahon planning tribunal yesterday.

FORMER Monarch property company executive Richard Lynn will deny in testimony he knew lobbyist Frank Dunlop bribed councillors for their votes, the Mahon planning tribunal was told yesterday.

Bill O'Herlihy has told the Planning Tribunal that he was shocked and disgusted to learn about the corruption in the planning system in the 1980s and 1990s.

Four senior members of Fianna Fáil have appeared at the Planning Tribunal today to give evidence about payments they received from Monarch Properties.

PLANNING tribunal chairman Judge Alan Mahon yesterday criticised a former Fianna Fáil councillor for giving the impression he got no payments from developers.

The Mahon Tribunal has heard that former Fianna Fáil TD GV Wright failed to declare almost £3,000 in donations from a leading property firm to the party's inquiry into election funds.

A GOVERNMENT party senator Ann Ormonde admitted to the Mahon Planning Tribunal yesterday she failed to tell a Fianna Fáil party probe she got political donations of nearly £3,000 from Monarch development company.