Ryanair have announced that they will open four new routes from Knock to Barcelona (Girona), Frankfurt (Hahn), Milan (Bergamo) and Paris (Beauvais) from April 2012.

The Dublin Airport Authority says crosswinds over the airfield there have caused a number of flights to be diverted to Shannon or Belfast.

AER Lingus has been asked to “come clean” and end speculation over the future of its operation at Shannon Airport amid fears that it will cut as many as three short-haul routes and suspend its transatlantic operation for the winter.

AN inquest into the death of a man whose defective pacemaker failed on a flight to France heard a warning had been issued by the manufacturer four months earlier, but the hospital failed to inform him.

FANCY a bargain?

MORE than 100 angry Ryanair passengers refused to leave an aircraft last night after their scheduled flight to Beauvais in France was diverted to Liege in Belgium.

SHANNON AIRPORT was given a much needed boost yesterday with confirmation Aer Lingus will resume its Paris-Charles de Gaulle service from December.

Ryanair has announced that it will open one new route from Barcelona (El Prat Airport) to Fuerteventura and will increase frequencies on nine other routes to Brussels (Charleroi), Cagliari, Dusseldorf (Weeze), Edinburgh, Gran Canaria, Milan (Bergamo), Paris (Beauvais), Rome (Ciampino) and Venice (Treviso) from November 2010.

Ryanair have announced five new routes from Madrid to Ancona, Ibiza, Krakow, Oujda (Morocco) and Stockholm Skavsta from November 2010.

A SCHOOLBOY threw a plastic bottle at France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy yesterday during a visit to discuss violence in French schools, but failed to hit his target.

Ryanair has today launched a £99/€99 (one way including taxes and charges) rescue fare for Eurostar passengers stranded in London and Paris.

Ryanair has today announced that it is to open its 38th base at Malaga in June 2010 with four based aircraft and 19 new routes being launched.

Ryanair is to open its thirty-seventh base at Oslo Rygge in March 2010 with three aircraft and 16 new routes (22 in total).

Ryanair is to open seven new routes in the autumn from Rygge airport (50kms from Oslo) and four new routes from Oslo (Torp).

A DANISH pilot felt he had to choose between following regulations set by the Irish Aviation Authority and rules issued by Ryanair in deciding not to operate a return flight that would have required him to work in excess of daily safety limits, an Employment Appeals Tribunal in Dublin heard yesterday.

MOST of us by now, I suspect, have a Ryanair horror story to tell. Mine involved a late evening flight back from Italy last November which was suddenly cancelled.

THERE was a bomb scare on a plane flying into Cork Airport last night.

THE Dublin Airport Authority has claimed that its proposed second terminal at Dublin Airport is arguably “the most important public building in a generation.”

RYANAIR passengers using Irish airports face some of the highest levels of “hidden charges” imposed by the airline anywhere in Europe.

OSCAR FREIRE edged a classic sprint finish to win the fifth stage of the Tour de France yesterday as Tom Boonen retained the yellow jersey.

AUSTRALIAN Robbie McEwen stole through to claim a sprint finish win on the fourth stage of the Tour de France in Saint-Quentin yesterday as world champion Tom Boonen held on to the yellow jersey.

An Aer Arann flight from Luton to Galway has been diverted to Prestwick airport in Scotland following a hoax bomb alert last night.

THE Irish Air Lines Pilots’ Association (IALPA) has expressed serious concern about the handling of a bomb alert by the British authorities involving a Ryanair flight forced to land at Prestwick Airport on Wednesday.

A bomb alert on board a Ryanair flight today was given to the plane's captain in the form of a note in a magazine, Strathclyde Police Assistant Chief Constable John Neilson said.

A BIG thank you to Ryanair, and particularly Captain Dave Courtney. I was flying from Shannon to Beauvais with my wife and two daughters on Thursday, February 23.

President Jacques Chirac is eager to leave the military hospital where he has been confined since last week, and news about his health is “very good,” the French prime minister said today.

THOUSANDS of air passengers are expected to be affected by the latest strike by French air traffic controllers today.

RYANAIR chief executive Michael O’Leary claims the no-frills airline has not acted illegally in refusing to refund €4.5m it collects annually in airport charges for no-show passengers.

A Ryanair flight with 115 passengers and crew on board was forced to return to Dublin Airport shortly after take-off last night due to a technical problem.