Ryanair has opposed recommendations for expansion at London’s Heathrow Airport, saying that the only solution to the airport capacity crisis in the south-east of England lies in more runways at all three of the city’s main hubs.

The Government should consider subsidising the Cork-Dublin air route, the chairman of the DAA has suggested, adding that Cork Airport is at a disadvantage compared to other airports.

A daily service from Belfast to Amsterdam by Dutch national carrier KLM is to be launched in May.

Ryanair is unlikely to launch a transatlantic service within the next five years, opting instead to further boost its position as leading short-haul operator in the European market.

Schiphol Airport is the wrong place to be for family and friends of those who died on Malaysian flight MH17.

The Interfax agency has said a Malaysian passenger jet carrying 295 people has crashed in Ukraine.

Dutch police have busted a cocaine-smuggling ring at Amsterdam's main airport which used baggage handlers to smuggle drugs in from the Caribbean.

An airliner was at the centre of a mistaken hijack alert today after being escorted in to land by two military fighters.

Part of Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport was evacuated today after workers unearthed a suspected Second World War bomb near its main terminal building.

The FBI and police at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport have opened a criminal investigation into how needles got into turkey sandwiches served to passengers on Delta Air Lines flights from Amsterdam to the United States.

Traffic at Irish airports has landed with a bump as new figures show they suffered the biggest decline in passenger numbers of any EU member state in 2010.

Heavy overnight snowfall has grounded about 450 flights and caused major delays at German airports.

FREEZING temperatures and snowstorms killed 12 more people and caused travel chaos across northern Europe yesterday as some of the worst floods in a century devastated parts of the Balkans.

An airliner carrying 135 passengers and eight crew crashed on landing at Amsterdam airport today.

An airliner carrying 135 passengers crashed on landing at Amsterdam airport today.

A series of international firms were today reported to be targeting Gatwick Airport as owner BAA faced being broken up by competition bosses.

SLIPPING under the radar of media and public attention, Waterford Airport has been the quiet success story of Ireland’s regional airports in the past 12 months.

Aer Arann has entered a franchise agreement with Nex Aviation to add four new routes to Amsterdam, Bordeaux, Malaga, and Faro.

Blackrock International Land has announced that it has agreed to purchase a Class A office investment in Amsterdam for a total consideration, including costs, of €25.5m.

PLUMMETING sales at airport duty free shops will be on the agenda for the EU-US summit next month, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has promised.

HEROIN and cocaine use is dominating the Irish drugs market, while ecstasy and cannabis availability appears to have dropped significantly, according to new figures.

A US airliner bound for India was diverted to Amsterdam under escort of two Dutch F-16 jet fighters, after air marshals and the crew grew suspicious of several passengers they saw exchanging mobile phones as the plane was taking off.

Dutch F-16s escorted a Northwest Airlines flight bound for India back to Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport today, and authorities detained several passengers for questioning.

The EU today hailed the success of the British authorities in disrupting a “major terrorist plot” aimed at blowing up several civilian airliners.

THE Irishman who set off a major alert at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport after claiming there was a bomb in his luggage because he was furious information staff could not help him with a query has been remanded in custody for 14 days by a Dutch Examining Magistrate.

A London-bound British Airways passenger jet was being searched today after diverting to Amsterdam airport following “a specific threat” being made to the aircraft.

THERE should be little immediate impact on Aer Lingus and Ryanair following the merger of Air France and Dutch carrier KLM to create Europe’s biggest airline, analysts predicted last night.

KLM could lose thousands of take-off and landing rights at Amsterdam airport Schiphol next year, following an error at the airport that will reduce the number of allowed flights in the short term, the airport's CEO Gerlach Cerfontaine said.

THE address sounds like the airport at Amsterdam, Schiphol, but Shipool in Cork is a far more down to earth sort of place.

THE address sounds like the airport at Amsterdam, Schiphol, but Shipool in Cork is a far more down to earth sort of place.

Thousands of people have been evacuated from a Dutch airport after an explosion and large fire erupted.