IRISH airports have been given the green light to resume operations one week after volcanic ash crippled the airline business.

Air traffic controllers tonight threatened to repeat the massive disruption which grounded more than 150 flights in and out of Ireland.

AER LINGUS has announced that it is to start a twice daily service from Cork to London Gatwick from March 6.

Aer Lingus is pushing ahead with plans for compulsory redundancies to cut costs by almost €100m.

Aer Lingus has insisted it has no "immediate" intention to set up a new base in Britain.

Aer Lingus has said the airline "will face a very bleak future" if its latest restructuring plan is not implemented.

A fourth daily flight to London Heathrow from Belfast International was launched today by Aer Lingus.

AER LINGUS chiefs yesterday raised the possibility of the national carrier going the way of failed airlines Sabena and Alitalia if the company’s controversial cutbacks are not backed by unions.

RYANAIR will not bail out Aer Lingus with a new takeover bid in spite of the rival airline posting record €93 million losses.

Aer Lingus is celebrating a British government decision to award it the contract for flying civil servants and other government employees between Belfast and Heathrow.

AER LINGUS, the state’s second-biggest airline, will delay taking delivery of Airbus aircraft as it cuts long-haul services.

Shannon: Aer Lingus is expanding its high-profile Shannon to Heathrow service almost two years after pulling flights completely.

Aer Lingus is expanding its high-profile Shannon to Heathrow service almost two years after pulling flights completely, it was revealed today.

AER LINGUS has admitted its decision to axe 25% of its winter transatlantic schedule is only a “small step” in a complete overhaul of the airline that could see hundreds of jobs axed.

AER Lingus’s Shannon to New York route got a “stay of execution” following the decision by Delta Airlines to cease its service on the route.

AER Lingus could cut routes from Shannon and Dublin this winter if the Government does not scrap the air travel tax which is causing “serious damage” to the airline.

AER Lingus has hit out at claims from one of the country’s top airline analysts that its refusal to provide profit guidance for this year is a “kick for touch” to avoid a short-term strike this summer.

AER LINGUS began the first wave of its cost reductions yesterday by cutting flights from Dublin and Belfast.

Aer Lingus is cutting flights out of Belfast and Dublin this winter as it fights to cope with the economic downturn and a fall in passengers.

DESPITE being relatively new to Aer Lingus, former Ryanair executive Sean Coyle is seen as a front-runner to succeed Dermot Mannion as chief executive.

Sightseers were given an eyeful today when hundreds of people stripped off beside a top English tourist attraction.

Airlines roundly condemned new air travel passenger taxes announced in today’s Budget.

Aer Lingus says it is pleased at its 42% share on the Belfast to London Heathrow route.

Aer Lingus today celebrated reaching its 500,000th booking for flights from Belfast International Airport less than nine months after the first aircraft took off.

AER LINGUS has announced that it is to increase its long-haul fuel surcharges on routes to the United States for the third time since March.

THERE was good news on several fronts for Cork Airport yesterday.

AER LINGUS yesterday ruled out introducing transatlantic flights from Cork any time soon.

AER LINGUS yesterday announced fuel surcharges would increase to as much as €90 on key transatlantic routes — the second rise by the airline in two months.

CONSUMERS are being hit by a triple whammy of airport baggage charges after three airlines increased their luggage fees within days of each other.

Aer Lingus has today announced plans to increase its check-in and baggage charges for all short-haul flights.

AER LINGUS filled just over a quarter of its seats on some flights from its new base in Belfast last month.

AER LINGUS yesterday said it is too early to say whether it will reassign its entire maintenance contract from the current operator SR Technics with the likely loss of up to 1,500 jobs.

A WAR of words broke out yesterday between Aer Lingus and Ryanair over how many passengers were onboard the former’s inaugural flight between Belfast and London.

PETROL and diesel-dependent industries can expect few breaks in the upcoming budget, with the Department of Energy pointing to the development of the biofuels industry as the solution to the surge in oil prices.

AER LINGUS Group Plc said it’s creating three management positions to oversee strategy and help increase sales.

Aer Lingus will go all out to capture the corporate and public service market when it opens its Belfast hub, its commercial director said today.

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.

Aer Lingus pilots are optimistic that a solution can be found in a row with the airline’s management over job conditions at a new hub in Belfast, they said today.

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.

Passengers planning on flying with Aer Lingus this week are being reminded that only a limited service will operate, if pilots go ahead with their two-day strike on Tuesday and Wednesday.

AER LINGUS will now not introduce an early morning flight from Heathrow to Cork after it rowed back on plans to move its most attractive landing slots to Belfast.

An Aer Lingus flight from Spain to Ireland was grounded today following a bomb threat.

AER LINGUS has leased eight planes and crews to accommodate more than a fifth of the 45,000 passengers whose flight plans have been thrown into disarray by a pilot strike next week.

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