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Hot Breaks In Lanzarote

Travel Deals and Tips | October 23rd 2009 by Lidia Abadia

Lanzarote is a hugely popular destination.  One of the seven Spanish owned Canary Islands and located off the coast of Morocco over 1.5 million foreign tourists enjoy a holiday here every year. Yet Lanzarote still somehow manages to retain an unspo read more

gobananas

Virgin Try Harder

Reputation Management | October 23rd 2009 by Mark Scott

After reading Richard Branson book “Stripped Bare”, it’s no surprising the Virgin brand has done well for its self.  Richard has totally understood the importance of positioning his brand and creating a positive reputation about hi read more

jbshort

Hotels by Airports Increase as Passenger Numbers Boom!

Hotels Today | October 22nd 2009 by Joan Yankowitz

There’s so much rhetoric about flying that sometimes you’re not quite sure whether to board a plane or not. If it’s not delays it’s the threat of something else from a long... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websi read more

LanceNelson

Sofia Flight Prices Cut By 20%: Wizz Air Offer

Bansko Blog | October 22nd 2009 by Lance Nelson

Sofia Airport A useful 20% off all Wizz Air flights booked between 22nd and 26th October for travel from today to 27th March has just been announced. This offer includes flights to Sofia from London Luton and from the many cities in Europe that now read more

Seafarer

Need a laugh? Low-cost airline spoof video had me rolling

Family Travel Logue | October 22nd 2009 by Sheila Scarborough

Y’all know I can be pretty tight-fisted, right? I’ll happily spend money when it makes sense to do so, and for things and experiences that are special, but when it comes to transportation and hotels, I’m okay with your basic clean v read more

Airobserver

2nd LCC Web blog popularity: Ryanair, easyJet and Air Berlin

AirObserver | October 22nd 2009

It’s always interesting to see which low cost company’s profile is most checked. Even if it doesn’t provide any positive or negative value, it does however, testify to blog trends in airline popularity. In an effort to track and monitor the read more

valueireland

World Cup Play Off Flights Uproar – ignore the grandstanding!

ValueIreland.com - Irelands Only Truly Independent Consumer… | October 22nd 2009 by Diarmuid MacShane

Following a close second in the pointless and non-newsworthy headlines stakes, we saw this beauty last Tuesday “Shameless rip-off as airlines hike Paris football flights to €300”. If you remember, I wrote yesterday about the number one most poi read more

Airobserver

When Ryanair advices Scottish govnerment…it sounds like blackma…

AirObserver | October 21st 2009

Give us your money, we’ll boost our business! Ryanair has proposed a strange deal yesterday to the Scotland’s Finance Minister John Swinney. He said that he had a solution to reverse Scotland’s passenger collapse. This proposition really so read more

Aereoo

Vuelos Madrid-Jerez de Ryanair, éxito total

Aereoo | October 20th 2009

A pesar de una escasa publicidad, pero gracias a una agresiva política de precios que ofrece billetes Jerez-Madrid a partir de cinco euros, la nueva ruta en España operada por la compañía low cost irlandesa consigue altos niveles de ocupación, a read more

Aereoo

Vuelos Madrid-Jerez de Ryanair, éxito total

Aereoo | October 20th 2009

A pesar de una escasa publicidad, pero gracias a una agresiva política de precios que ofrece billetes Jerez-Madrid a partir de cinco euros, la nueva ruta en España operada por la compañía low cost irlandesa consigue altos niveles de ocupación, a read more

Airobserver

Michael O’Leary: The PR Stunt Machine

AirObserver | October 20th 2009

I just wanted to have a record somewhere of all that O‘Leary has done, just to keep it all in mind and unveil his latest Pr stunt. There is so much news in the aviation industry and O’Leary pulls off so many eccentricities that sometimes you forg read more

gobananas

Ryanair’s O’Leary – unvarnished

Reputation Management | October 20th 2009 by Mark Scott

Tony O’Leary seems to divide opinion violently between those who love him (”he should be president” ) to those who hate him (”he’s a total prick”). There are two great merits about him: he is supremely entertaining read more

gobananas

Ryanair – brand and reputation enigma

Reputation Management | October 20th 2009 by Mark Scott

Ryanair is one of the most popular airlines in the world. It certainly flies more people than any other airline in the world. It is also one of the world’s most unpopular airlines judging by surveys of passengers. What’s going on? Ryanair read more

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Ryanair adds extra flights to Paris

Air ticket sales news | October 20th 2009 by Barbora

Low cost airline Ryanair announced yesterday that in addition to our regular daily flights to Paris (Beauvais) from Dublin and Shannon we will operate extra flights for the World Cup playoff match in Paris on Wednesday November 18, 2009. Ryanair has read more

GestoraTuristica

Ryanair lança um milhão de bilhetes a cinco euros

Turista-Evasões | October 19th 2009 by Lénia Teixeira

Ryanair lança um milhão de bilhetes a cinco euros--até à meia-noite da próxima quinta-feira, dia 22A companhia aérea Ryanair está de volta às super promoções e lançou agora um milhão de bilhetes, válidos nas suas rotas europeias, a cinco read more

giteinbrittany

Travel updates - new services from Euroferries, Celtic Link, LD L…

Running a French Holiday Gite in Rural Brittany | October 19th 2009

Been making some updates to the French ferry and airline routes page for our self-catering Brittany cottage.First up, thanks to Richy who left a comment on my last Euroferries posting, as at long last Euroferries finally launch their Ramsgate to Boul read more

giteinbrittany

Travel updates - new services from Euroferries, Celtic Link, LD L…

Running a French Holiday Gite in Rural Brittany | October 19th 2009

Been making some updates to the French ferry and airline routes page for our self-catering Brittany cottage.First up, thanks to Richy who left a comment on my last Euroferries posting, as at long last Euroferries finally launch their Ramsgate to Boul read more

StudentHelp

Free Seats with Ryanair

StudentsInEurope Blog: The Backpacking Experience | October 15th 2009

Free Seats with Budget Airline Ryanair Ryanair, the European budget airline is to give away free seats – 1.6 million – after it was criticised in a BBC Panorama documentary ”Why hate Ryanair.” The documentary which wa read more

RegesterLarkin

Prepare to repel boarders!

Reputation Spotlight | October 15th 2009 by Regester Larkin

When should a chief executive confront hostile critics publicly? This week saw Ryanair publish on its website the full correspondence between the airline and the producers of Panorama. Definitely worth a read. Michael O’Leary, Ryanair’s CEO, refu read more

Airobserver

O’Leary needs 200 planes, but he won’t get them from Airbus

AirObserver | October 15th 2009

Yesterday I wrote about Ryanair and easyJet’s communication. I mentioned O’Leary announcement about his desire to conclude a deal of 200 jets by the end of the year. Let’s take a closer look, as I think there are a few interesting facts to p read more

Airobserver

Pressure, lies and demagogy: easyJet and Ryanair’s communicatio…

AirObserver | October 14th 2009

Today two things really caught my attention. First, it was Ryanair’s announcement. The Irish discount airline said that it hopes to complete an order of  200 aircrafts by the end of the year. M. O’Leary, Ryanair Chief Executive, declared that read more

BBC Panorama investigate Ryanair

Oxygen Consulting - Oxygen Blog | October 14th 2009

Last night's Panorama investigation into the selling practices of Ryanair was interesting. Following the hour-long programme I was left thinking was there really a story here to tell. Ok, so the Ryanair website may not be the best at quickly flagging read more

MattParsons

Television, meet Twitter

Journeys Through Travel | October 13th 2009 by Matt Parsons

Question Time, The X Factor – and now Panorama. Television is making big inroads into Twitter. The first two programmes you’ll notice always make Twitter’s trending list when shown, but I’m going to take a quick look at Panorama a read more

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Ryanair to decide on new plane order by end of year

Airline News Blog | October 13th 2009 by Jason Rhen

Ryanair Boeing 737 Ryanair, currently operating an all-Boeing fleet, is expected to make it’s decision to purchase up to 200 new narrow-body aircraft from either Boeing or Airbus by the end of this year.  Ryanair has been widely expected to se read more

Airobserver

A war of numbers: the battle for best time performance

AirObserver | October 13th 2009

I had an interesting discussion on twitter today with Damian Corrigan of Spain Travel. He made me notice that Ryanair seems to use tips to reach top time performance. He says that he realised the last times he travelled that “the advertised flig read more

Aereoo

1 millón de billetes gratis con Ryanair

Aereoo | October 13th 2009

Ryanair, la compañía low cost irlandesa ha vuelto a ofrecer su promoción de un millón de billetes gratis a distintos destinos durante noviembre y diciembre. Esta promoción que incluye tasas e impuestos es válida durante hoy 13 y mañana 14 de o read more

Aereoo

1 millón de billetes gratis con Ryanair

Aereoo | October 13th 2009

Ryanair, la compañía low cost irlandesa ha vuelto a ofrecer su promoción de un millón de billetes gratis a distintos destinos durante noviembre y diciembre. Esta promoción que incluye tasas e impuestos es válida durante hoy 13 y mañana 14 de o read more

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Are TW and its readers still 'predictable' over Ryanair?

Travel Weekly Blog | October 13th 2009 by Nathan Midgley

Twitter hosted some inevitable chatter about the Panorama show on Ryanair.Former Travolution editor Kevin May, never terribly sympathetic to the traditional bad blood between travel agents and Ryanair, tweeted: utterly predictable responses from pre read more

GestoraTuristica

Ryanair: 1 milhão de lugares grátis para reservar hoje dia13 e…

Auto-Estima e Bem Estar- a Blog about experiences in Portugu… | October 12th 2009 by Lénia Teixeira

Ryanair: 1 milhão de lugares grátis para reservar hoje e amanhã A partir das 07h00 de hoje e até às 24 horas de quarta-feira a low cost Ryanair lança no seu site um milhão de bilhetes gratuitos, para viagens a realizar às terças, quartas e q read more

GestoraTuristica

Ryanair: 1 milhão de lugares grátis para reservar hoje-DIA13 e…

Turista-Evasões | October 12th 2009 by Lénia Teixeira

Ryanair: 1 milhão de lugares grátis para reservar hoje e amanhã A partir das 07h00 de hoje e até às 24 horas de quarta-feira a low cost Ryanair lança no seu site um milhão de bilhetes gratuitos, para viagens a realizar às terças, quartas e q read more