Ryanair is to base four new Boeing 737-800 series aircraft in Budapest Airport opening up 31 routes out of the Hungarian capital in response to yesterday’s collapse of Malev Airlines.

Hungarian airline Malev said today that it does not have the money to keep going.

Tens of thousands of passengers were left stranded at airports around the world at the weekend after Spanish airline Spanair went bust.

Around 20,000 passengers across Europe and Africa have been left stranded after the collapse of Spain's fourth-largest airline, Spanair.

AIRLINE software provider Datalex is set to announce a deal with one of the world’s top airlines which has the potential to double to 150 million the number of bookings its software processes each year.

Dublin-based travel retail solutions provider Datalex has seen a 1.3% increase in revenues to $13.3m in the first half of the year.

The first official report into the crash of a SpanAir passenger jet offers no hypothesis as to why the plane went down but says investigators are still focusing on a problem with the wing flaps.

WING flaps that help lift a plane on takeoff failed on the Spanair flight that crashed last month and an alarm to warn pilots of the problem never sounded.

Spain's aviation authority says Spanair, the airline involved in a crash that killed 154 people this week, has had another technical problem with one of its aeroplanes.

Spain's civil aviation chief said a glitch in an air temperature gauge that forced the doomed Spanair jet to abandon its first take-off attempt an hour before it crashed should be examined.

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.

THE MD-82 plane that crashed in Madrid is part of the MD 80 series commonly seen in Irish airports. The aircraft series is regarded by industry watchers as having a good safety record.

A SISTER plane of the jet that crashed in Madrid yesterday had to make an emergency landing five days ago after suffering suspected engine problems.

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.

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).

RYANAIR has boosted its fleet through the €0.5 billion acquisition of 10 new aircraft from Boeing.

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