CityJet founder Pat Byrne has said the airline’s transformation will be helped by greater access to credit after sealing a deal to buy the airline from its German owner, with the help of investors.

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CityJet is poised to increase from three to four flights a day on its new Cork to London City Airport service, and is already considering new routes from Cork to France and Italy.

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.

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A veteran republican handed over almost $250,000 in Russian hotels in an international plot to spread the notes across Europe, a court heard.

FOR all culture vultures out there, check out Copenhagen’s Night of Culture on October 10 – an annual event that grants visitors access to venues such as museums, churches, galleries and political institutions.

FORMER Irish rugby legend Trevor Brennan has launched a new travel company, Trevor Brennan Rugby Tours.

Authorities in Madrid are beginning the grim task of identifying 153 victims burned to death when a jet heading to the Canary Islands crashed on take-off.

A Spanish airliner bound for the Canary Islands at the height of the holiday season crashed, burned and broke into pieces today while trying to take off from Madrid, killing 149 people on board, officials said.

CLUB Med has published a tempting offer for a seven day Hallowe’en special in Morocco.

ETIHAD Airways has extended its global network by providing Irish customers for the first time with access to Yemen, following the signing of a new agreement with Yemen Airways.

ABBEY Travel has released the latest selection of high-quality holidays to Dubai and Oman, with an additional destination to Abu Dhabi. That’s not surprising since the relatively recent start-up of flights from Dublin with Etihad to Abu Dhabi and beyond.

Scandinavian travel group SAS AB today said it would sell its holdings in British carrier bmi and two other airlines as it announced a savings package designed to cut costs by £200m (€296m).

STENA LINE’S day trips to Oakwood theme park in south Wales become are one of the ferry company’s most popular programmes offerings — with more than 35,000 Irish making the trip last year.

PROJECT Travel has teamed up with Scandinavian Airlines to offer a special five-night Norwegian break from €769 per person sharing — three nights in Oslo and two in Bergen plus the special ‘Norway in a Nutshell’ journey between the two.

Police have arrested a suspect in a spectacular robbery of a passenger plane in south-western Sweden.

Passengers on a flight from London to Sweden looked on as masked gunmen robbed their plane in a dramatic runway incident, Gothenburg police said tonight.

Authorities evacuated parts of an airport in south-western Sweden today after masked gunmen robbed a passenger plane that had just landed from London and left a suspicious package that police said looked like a bomb.

A regional airport in central Sweden has been evacuated after an airline employee reported that a suspected suicide bomber had been spotted.

BMI has scooped the Chambers of Commerce of Ireland's (CCI's) Airline of the Year Award 2004 and has also won in the ‘Best Airline 2004 - London Routes’ category.

The Chief Executive Board of Star Alliance today unanimously approved the application of US Airways to join the world’s largest airline alliance.

Airport operating company Aer Rianta has welcomed yesterday's news that an American airline is to begin two new services to Ireland next year.