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Ryanair, TUI, easyJet Share Advice To Passengers At Airports Over New Europe Rules

Ryanair, TUI, easyJet Share Advice To Passengers At Airports Over New Europe Rules

Published by Sam Flores

The EU’s new Entry/Exit System (EES) has fully kicked into place for UK passengers after its October rollout. It’s a biometric system (including a photo and/or fingerprints) that registers non-EU nationals every time they make a short stay in Schengen countries. The EU’s site says it’s designed to eventually replace passport stamps and offer a more “efficient” version of EU check-ins. But so far, there have been early hiccups: EES has been blamed for border delays that left passengers behind and “hours-long queues”. In response, airlines like TUI, Jet2, and easyJet have shared advice. Which countries are affected by the EES system? The Schengen countries involved are: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. The Republic of Ireland and Cyprus are excluded from EES systems as they’re not Schengen countries. What advice have airlines given to UK travellers for EES checkins? The advice so far includes: British Airways Their site reads, “You …

Ryanair flights cancelled as Spain airport to shut impacting thousands of Brits

Ryanair flights cancelled as Spain airport to shut impacting thousands of Brits

Published by Sam Flores

An airport in Spain is due to shut from next week, with all scheduled flights cancelled. Santiago de Compostela Airport in northwest Spain will be closing for over a month, from April 23 to May 27. The planned closure is so that multi-million-pound maintenance work can take place at the base. During this time, the whole airport will be closed to air traffic. There are usually 30 flights from the UK to Santiago de Compostela Airport each week including from airports London Stansted, London Gatwick and London Heathrow, reports The Sun. Airlines that fly from the UK to the destination include Vueling, Ryanair and Iberia. Each airline tends to use aircraft that hold an average of 180 passengers. And with 30 flights a week, this means around 5,400 Brits could be impacted by the cancellations, according to The Sun. The other routes from the airport mainly include other spots in Spain such as Barcelona and Madrid. Click here to get the biggest stories straight to your inbox in our Daily Newsletter In a statement on …

Bailiffs board Ryanair plane after airline refuses to pay delayed flight compensation | Ryanair

Bailiffs board Ryanair plane after airline refuses to pay delayed flight compensation | Ryanair

Published by Sam Flores

Bailiffs have boarded a Ryanair aircraft after the airline refused to pay compensation to a passenger whose flight was delayed. Austrian officials took action after the budget carrier ignored a court order to pay the unnamed woman €890 (£742) in legal costs and compensation for a delayed flight two years ago. A bailiff entered the plane, which was bound for London, as it sat on the stand at Linz airport on Monday and fixed a seizure sticker to the cabin when crew were unable to settle the debt. The label, known as a “cuckoo sticker”, gives the court legal control over the aircraft, which was allowed to continue to operate under set conditions. The court can sell the Boeing 737 at public auction if the debt is not paid by a deadline. The dispute began in 2024 when a flight from Linz to the Spanish island of Mallorca was delayed by 13 hours. A passenger who was forced to pay for an alternative flight claimed a refund of her expenses and compensation under aviation regulations. …

Ryanair insists we failed to board a phantom flight | Consumer affairs

Ryanair insists we failed to board a phantom flight | Consumer affairs

Published by Sam Flores

I was on a Ryanair flight from Bristol to Dublin that took off during Storm Amy in October last year. It was unable to land at Dublin after two abortive attempts and was diverted to Manchester, where we sat on the plane for six hours, with no complimentary refreshments, before being unceremoniously ejected at nearly midnight. We were told Ryanair staff would organise taxis and hotels, but no crew disembarked with us, and the terminal was deserted. I, along with other passengers, was forced to take a taxi to a hotel for the night. There was no word from Ryanair and no flights showed as available the next day, so I took two buses back to Bristol. The abortive trip cost me £900 but Ryanair failed to offer a ticket refund and has refused my £240 claim for the hotel and transport because it seems to have recorded the flight as having landed in Dublin. RC, Bishop’s Tawton, Devon Your communications with Ryanair make for surreal reading. Customer service agents first insisted that you submit …

Micheal Martin ‘spends more time abroad than Elton John’, says Michael O’Leary

Micheal Martin ‘spends more time abroad than Elton John’, says Michael O’Leary

Published by Sam Flores

“This Government does very little, but it’s led by somebody who spends far too much time being wheeled around abroad, meeting global leaders – which would be fine, as long as you were having a Cabinet meeting here at 8.30 on a Monday morning and getting stuff done, he wanders in it about 11 o’clock on Tuesday and then disappears to Davos for a couple of days.” Source link

Elon Musk vs Ryanair: Could tech billionaire actually buy budget airline and what started online spat? | Money News

Elon Musk vs Ryanair: Could tech billionaire actually buy budget airline and what started online spat? | Money News

Published by skeptic

Elon Musk has said he could buy Ryanair amid an ongoing public spat with the budget airline’s boss Michael O’Leary. The two have clashed numerous times over the past few days, resulting in Mr Musk asking his X followers if he should buy Ryanair and “restore Ryan as their rightful ruler”. Ryanair responded by announcing a “big idiot seat sale”, which it says is for the billionaire tech mogul and any other “idiots” on Mr Musk’s social media platform. Here is everything you need to know about why the two outspoken chief executives are trading insults, from what has been said to why it began in the first place. What is the row about? The spat appears to have stemmed from Mr O’Leary ruling out equipping Ryanair jets with Mr Musk’s Starlink satellite internet service, after rivals Lufthansa and Scandinavian airline SAS announced a deal to install Starlink on its aircraft. In an interview with Irish radio station Newstalk on 16 January, Mr O’Leary said he would not install the technology because he believed that …

Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left, flight log suggests | Ryanair

Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left, flight log suggests | Ryanair

Published by Jenni Sidey

An investigation is under way after a Ryanair flight battling with high wind speeds during storm Amy last week landed at Manchester airport with just six minutes of fuel left in its tanks. The pilots had been taking passengers from Pisa in Italy to Prestwick in Scotland on Friday evening, but wind speeds of up to 100mph meant they were unable to land. After three failed attempts to touch down, the pilots of Ryanair flight FR3418 issued a mayday emergency call and raced to Manchester, where the weather was calmer. The Boeing 737-800 had just 220kg of fuel left in its tanks when it finally landed, according to a picture of what appears to be a handwritten technical log. Pilots who examined the picture said this would be enough for just five or six minutes of flying. Analysis of the log suggests the plane left Pisa with reserve fuel, as commercial flights are required to do. A spokesperson for the airline said: “Ryanair reported this to the relevant authorities on Friday [3 October]. As this …