Icelandic carrier WOW air is to launch a new year-round Dublin-Reykjavik service from next summer.

Talk about taking the right photo at the right time.

Ryanair has ordered an inquiry into how six holidaymakers were allowed to board the wrong flight at East Midlands Airport in England.

Air accident investigators in Britain have launched a probe into an accident at East Midlands Airport that involved an Irish cargo aircraft.

A pensioner who claims he was advised by Ryanair to leave his ill wife behind while he took a pre-booked holiday flight has said he is still awaiting his refund.

A newly ex-boyfriend who bought a holiday to Malta for his girlfriend has decided to give it away for free after they split up.

A couple have described the “frightening” moment when their Ryanair flight had to be diverted after a depressurisation incident in the cabin and the captain could be heard calling out “mayday”.

Interpol, the largest international police organisation in the world, issued a global security alert to its 188 member countries today after explosives were found on two US-bound planes last week.

One of two mail bombs sent from Yemen last week was defused just 17 minutes before it was set to explode, the French interior minister said today.

A member of the terror group blamed for last week’s cargo plane bomb plot was arrested in the UK on suspicion of planning a attack in this country earlier this year, Britain's Home Secretary revealed today.

THE bombs used in the cargo plane terror plot were at least 50 times more powerful than would be needed to blow a hole in an aircraft fuselage, officials said yesterday.

The young Yemeni woman arrested on suspicion of mailing powerful bombs to US synagogues was released on bail today as Yemeni officials said authorities believed her identity had been stolen.

A 22-year-old Yemeni engineering student has been detained along with her mother in connection with the alleged cargo bomb plot.

Police in Yemen arrested a woman suspected of sending a pair of bombs powerful enough to take down aircraft.

An explosive device found hidden in a printer cartridge on a cargo plane at a UK airport was apparently designed to blow the aircraft out of the sky, British Prime Minister David Cameron said tonight.

Yemeni authorities were today checking several more packages in the hunt for terrorists who tried to mail bombs to synagogues in the United States.

The British government's emergency committee COBRA is to meet this morning to discuss security after suspicious packages were found at East Midlands airport and on a plane in Dubai.

The British Home Office has stopped direct flights from Yemen to the UK in light of the security alert caused by a suspicious package found at a British airport.

LOW-COST airline bmibaby is to schedule extra flights from Belfast after Ryanair said it was pulling out of the city.

Low-cost airline bmibaby is to schedule extra flights from Belfast after Ryanair said it was pulling out of the city.

Stoke were involved in flight drama on their return from Portsmouth last night when their private plane had to make an emergency landing at Gatwick Airport.

RYANAIR passenger traffic rose 19% to 6.88 million last month, while its load factor, a measure of seats filled stayed at 90%.

British budget airline easyJet is to close its East Midlands base and reduce services at Luton airport by 20%, it announced today.

Germany’s flagship airline Lufthansa was today set to take control of a UK carrier for the first time after agreeing to buy a majority stake in British Midland in a deal costing £223m (€263m).

People around the world will light candles for missing Madeleine McCann tomorrow as her parents mark an agonising year without her.

Passengers had to abandon an airliner in Poland today when one of its wheels got stuck in mud.

Portuguese police are arriving in the UK tomorrow to sit in as the friends of Kate and Gerry McCann are interviewed.

Madeleine McCann’s parents woke up today back home in Britain, but without their missing daughter and with a cloud of suspicion hanging over them.

The family of missing Madeleine McCann flew out of Portugal today to return to Britain.

A mystery phone call from a man claiming to know the whereabouts of missing Madeleine McCann could provide a new lead in the case, it emerged today.

Tullow Oil plummeted 23c down to €3.78, nearly 6%, following their announcement that drilling on the Faucon-1 exploration well off the coast Mauritania has been completed.

Ryanair has been forced to cancel 600 flights in the New Year due to a delay in the delivery of new planes it has ordered from the aircraft manufacturer Boeing.

A British airport will today reveal if it is to change its name and spark a dispute between three neighbouring cities.

Low-cost airline, bmi British Midland, said today it was fighting back against its rivals.

Almost 850,000 people took advantage of the free-seat offer made by low-fare airline Ryanair last month, it was announced today.

A low-cost airline was today criticised by the advertising watchdog for making cheap flight claims.

Bmibaby expects to carry 500,000 passengers in its first nine months.

It currently operates 20 leased Boeing 737-300s, with seven more arriving this year.

BMI British Midland has announced plans to establish budget operations in Britain in competition against Ryanair, Go! and EasyJet.