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Record summer at Ryanair helps low-cost airline announce first regular dividend

Shareholders to get €400 million in first set of regular payouts

Evening Standard

Ryanair makes £120 profit per second over summer as fares soar by 24%

Passengers boarded at an average rate of 400 per minute between April and September

The Independent UK

Ryanair to reward shareholders as it heads for record profits after fares rise

Airline to pay regular dividends as finance boss says consumers are going to continue spending

The Guardian - UK

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Airlines rage about bank holiday Monday air traffic control meltdown

‘The numpties at Nats didn’t tell us. We had to find out from someone else that they’d crashed their system,’ says Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary

The Independent UK

Ryanair: Air traffic control chaos happened as Nats ‘collapsed their system’

Chief executive Michael O’Leary said processing flight plans with duplicate waypoints is ‘not something complicated’.

The Independent UK

Michael O’Leary accuses Nats boss of ‘incompetence’ in furious row over air-traffic control failure

‘Your system engineers were sitting at home drinking tea instead of being onsite and ready to deal with a total system failure,’ says Ryanair boss in heated exchange of letters

The Independent UK

Taylor Swift’s ‘The Eras Tour’ dances to No. 1 at the box office, eyeing ‘Joker’ film record

‘The Eras Tour’ could be the highest-grossing concert film ever, debuting at between $95 million and $97 million on North American screens, distributor AMC reports.

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Ryanair boss defends ‘no compromise’ rules – saying they mean low fares

Exclusive: ‘Ryanair is a very simple business. We operate with very simple policies’ – CEO Michael O’Leary

The Independent UK

Ryanair and Michael O’Leary’s eastern promise to help rebuild Ukraine

The Man Who Pays His Way: Ryanair is seeking first-mover advantage – promising flights from Kyiv, Lviv and Odesa within weeks of a ceasefire

The Independent UK

Ryanair cuts winter flights schedule due to plane delivery delays

Budget carrier to reduce number of aircraft at several airports across Europe including East Midlands Airport

Evening Standard

Ryanair cuts flights due to plane delivery delays

It will reduce the number of aircraft it planned to base at several airports across Europe, including East Midlands Airport.

The Independent UK

COVID outbreak among ATC staff causes flight chaos at London Gatwick

The airport will process 164 fewer flights than planned after COVID-19 and other illness put 30% of ATC staff out of action.

Fortune

Gatwick air traffic control disruption: What is happening and why?

At least 5,000 people began Friday a long way from where they intended to be after a controller fell sick the day before

The Independent UK

Thousands impacted as Gatwick air traffic control hit by staff shortages

It comes just two weeks after a Nats technical glitch caused widespread disruption at airports across the UK.

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - UK

‘Be very afraid’: what I learned from a 26-hour Ryanair delay

The Guardian’s former money editor endured two days of misery after he and others were bumped off an overbooked flight

Fortune

Climate activists greet Ryanair’s CEO with a pie in the face, but he rips them for using artificial cream: ‘I invite passengers to come to Ireland where the cream is better!”

The aviation sector has pledged to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, but activists want change now, and they’re not above a vaudevillian prank.

Evening Standard

Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary hit with cream pies by eco activists

The incident happened on Thursday morning as he was preparing to hand in a petition

Fortune

Ryanair CEO slams U.K. air traffic service’s explanation for meltdown that forced him to cancel 370 flights

“This inaccurate and rubbish preliminary report is not acceptable,” Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary said.

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The Conversation

Air traffic control chaos: how human error can lead a tiny glitch to spiral out of control

Several thousand passengers were stranded at airports, hotels and connection depots following the recent system-wide glitch of the UK air traffic control systems. Some passengers were told of flight cancellations in advance, so they could make alternative travel plans.

Evening Standard

Ryanair boss says air traffic chaos report ‘full of rubbish’

Michael O’Leary said a report into the air traffic control failure on August 28 is ‘bogus’

The Guardian - UK

Markets rally as China steps up support for economy and Country Garden strikes debt deal – as it happened

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as stocks rally as Country Garden agrees extension to its onshore debt payments

Fortune

'Technical glitch' sparks crippling delays for major U.K. airlines—and it could take 'days' before it’s resolved

More than a quarter of all flights coming into and leaving the U.K. were canceled on Monday.

The Independent UK

Ryanair boss slams air traffic control chaos as ‘unacceptable’

In a video message, the chief executive described Monday as ‘a very difficult day’.

The Independent UK

Ryanair’s way: the airline’s secret is to be counterintuitive

Plane Talk: Michael O'Leary is the only airline CEO I know who would turn up in Kyiv in the middle of a war

Evening Standard

Ryanair profits take off as traffic soars for Easter and Coronation bank holidays

CEO Michael O’Leary points to potential lower fares at Christmas due to increased capacity

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