Ryanair have released figures showing its passenger numbers for September have risen 17% year on year to 2.37 million.

Low cost airline Ryanair today announced that it carried almost 20% more passengers than BA in UK/Europe during August, one of the busiest months of the year for UK air travel.

Ryanair has today been confirmed as Scotland’s number one international airline for 2003.

The ISEQ index of Irish shares gained 43.13 points to 5440.61 in morning trading today.

AER LINGUS and Ryanair said they have no plans to introduce a levy on passengers to compensate for higher fuel prices following a decision by British Airways (BA) to more than double its charge on customers.

Ryanair has banned four Italian passengers for life from flying with Ryanair for smoking and disruptive behaviour during flight a flight from Genoa to London.

Ryanair today criticised Britain's Trading Standards Institute for taking court action over Ryanair’s low fares on the day when British Airways announced it was more that doubling fuel surcharges to consumers.

THE British Airports Authority (BAA) is to take court action against Ryanair over the non-payment of £1 million landing fees at Stansted Airport.

In Dublin today, the ISEQ index closed up 8.44 points at 5415.31.

ITALY’S Milan-Bergamo airport recorded 2.8 million passengers in 2003 (not dissimilar to Shannon’s 2.4m and Cork’s 2.2m) and has just announced profits were up by 93% to €3.46m.

Ryanair today celebrated its 15th anniversary of the Stansted-Dublin route.

Low-fares airline Ryanair is celebrated a record-breaking month for European passenger numbers.

More than 200,000 people now carry the Ryanair credit card, the airline said yesterday. The card was launched in February 2003 and has 2,500 applications per week, it says.

Ryanair has topped a list for airline punctuality drawn up by the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) for the first quarter of 2004.

IT is now 12 weeks since the last threatened closure of our main international airport and still the Department of Transport has done absolutely nothing to put an effective contingency plan in place to keep the runways open.

Ryanair carried 2.14 million passengers during May in the UK and Europe compared to British airlines' 2.05 million, the low fares carrier said today.

Ryanair, today celebrated carrying over 45 million passengers to and from Ireland since operations commenced in 1985.

THE Irish Examiner of May 27 reported that the Aer Rianta monopoly has announced it has spent an incredible €7m of taxpayers’ money on Dublin airport’s pier D when not a single blade of grass has been touched.

Ryanair has called on the Government to proceed with the planned break-up of Aer Rianta after it was revealed that €7m has been written off by the company over the proposed Pier D extension to Dublin airport.

EIGHT more people have been banned from Ryanair flights for smoking on board, engaging in disruptive behaviour and criminal damage.

Ryanair has carried 10 million passengers on its London Stansted-Dublin route since operations began in June 1989.

IT is now six weeks since the last threatened closure of our main international airport and still Aer Rianta has done absolutely nothing to put an effective contingency plan in place to keep the runways open.

Ryanair today begins operations on its three new routes from Ireland to the UK and Spain.

Low fares airline Ryanair has launced a new initiative combining a range of short breaks and event packages.

RYANAIR recently highlighted the abject failure of the Commission of Aviation Regulation to do anything to reduce charges at the Aer Rianta semi-state monopoly.

HOLD the front page. An actual communication from Aer Rianta (Irish Examiner letters, March 30), a mere two weeks after the latest threatened strike and closure at Dublin airport.

THE debate (Irish Examiner, March 19) on anti-privatisation entirely misses the key issue in the transport arena. The debate is not about ‘privatisation’, but about competition versus monopoly.

Low-cost airline Ryanair today called on the Government and Aer Rianta to produce a contingency plan to keep Dublin Airport open during future strike actions.

DUBLIN airport was threatened recently with runway closure for the third time in nine months because just ten fire personnel were refusing to provide cover there.

Ryanair has called on Aer Rianta to produce a contingency plan to ensure that Dublin Airport remains open at all times during future industrial action.

Ryanair has called on Aer Rianta to devise a plan to keep Dublin Airport open in the event of any future industrial action.

Ryanair is to add extra services to London from Dublin and Kerry, as part of its new summer schedule.

EIGHT people have been banned for life from all Ryanair flights for compromising passenger and crew safety by smoking on board.

Low fares airline, Ryanair, has today announced it has banned eight passengers for life from flying with Ryanair for compromising passenger and crew safety by smoking on board.

Ryanair passed the 35m passenger landmark at Dublin airport this month since flights began 20 years ago.

I WOULD like to respond to Declan Groeger’s letter (Irish Examiner, February 10), and explain — yet again — that Ryanair does not and has never charged for wheelchair assistance at an airport.

RYANAIR carried more than two million passengers between Dublin and London this year.

Ryanair has announced it has broken through the two million passenger landmark figure on Europe's busiest air route - Dublin-London - carrying nearly half of all the traffic on this route.

Ryanair has announced a pre-Christmas seat sale with 490,000 seats for 49c excluding taxes.

RYANAIR will restart low fare flights between Strasbourg and London if the Court of Appeal in Nancy decides in the company’s favour before the end of December.

Ryanair is to halve the frequency of its Shannon to London route.

Ryanair has carried 40m through Stansted airport since it began operations there in 1989.

I REFER to Gerard O’Rourke’s letter entitled ‘Aer Rianta is flying – why break it up?’ (Irish Examiner, Nov 3).

I REFER to Michael Brennan’s article headlined ‘Aer Lingus pledges fare play for customers’ (Irish Examiner, August 26).