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Ryanair has announced it will open its 33rd base at Porto (Northern Portugal) with two based aircraft and four new routes (16 in total). Ryanair will offer 50 daily return flights to/from Porto in an investment worth over $140 million.

Ryanair today (30th June 09) welcomed the publication of punctuality, flight cancelation and baggage performance statistics by the Association of European Airlines (AEA), for November ‘08 – March ‘09, which confirmed that Ryanair is Europe’s number one airline for customer service with the best on time performance, the fewest cancelations and the least lost bags.

Ryanair has announced a partnership with Webloyalty, a leading provider of online savings, discount and protection programmes, which will provide Ryanair UK passengers with discounts of up to 20% at over 700 top online retailers as well as best price guarantees, automatic extended warranty protection, and a £10 cash back cheque from Webloyalty every month in which they purchase a Ryanair flight, all for just £10 per month.

Ryanair today confirmed that it will freeze growth at its nine UK bases with immediate effect. Ryanair claims that Gordon Brown’s £10 tourist tax, combined with the BAA Monopoly’s high airport charges have caused the loss of over 4.5 million passengers at the BAA UK airports in the first five months of the year.

Ryanair has announced cuts in its winter based aircraft, flights and jobs at Dublin and Shannon Airports as the Government’s €10 tourist tax continues to devastate Irish traffic and tourism.

Ryanair has confirmed that its website ryanair.com will close for a 10 hour period from 19:00hrs Wednesday 24th June 2009 until 05:00hrs Thursday (25th June) due to an essential upgrade maintenance.

Ryanair has this week called on the Irish Government to scrap its €10 tourist tax to prevent a further collapse in Irish tourism and related jobs next winter.

Ryanair today (10th June 09) suggested that teenagers get rid of embarrassing parents and party this summer by snapping up one of Ryanair’s great value Father’s Day Gift Vouchers which are available from just £25 on ryanair.com.

Ryanair, Europe’s largest low fares airline, today (8th June 09) announced a new partnership with 15 Below to deliver booking confirmation numbers directly to passenger mobile phones via SMS message for just £1. Ryanair passengers will no longer have to print out confirmation emails as their itinerary can be sent to their mobile within 24 hours of booking.

Ryanair has announced a new 5 year partnership with AXA Travel Insurance, part of the AXA Assistance Group, which will come into effect from next September to provide Ryanair’s 67 million passengers with great value, quality, single-trip, multi-trip and annual travel insurance policies on ryanair.com.

Ryanair has announced that it has signed a licensing agreement with Momondo.com, a “price comparison only” website, which will now see Ryanair.com’s guaranteed lowest fares displayed on Momondo’s travel search engine.

Ryanair today (26th May 09) launched an online credit card offer providing 0% interest for the first 10 months on balance transfers, which is four months longer than any other credit card 0% “deal” currently available.

Ryanair today (19th May 09) confirmed a 60% increase in bookings on their camping website last month as more and more families take advantage of great value “recession chic” campsite accommodation throughout Europe and Ryanair’s guaranteed lowest fares this summer.

Ryanair today (19th May 09) condemned BAA for its decision to appeal the Competition Commission’s recent pro-consumer decision to break up the BAA hold over London’s airports. Ryanair has been a long standing critic of the BAA airport monopoly.

Ryanair has welcomed the decision by the Spanish Government to reduce airport taxes to zero for all airlines that maintain or increase the traffic they achieved at Spain’s largest airports in the second half of 2008 during the corresponding period this year.

Ryanair has confirmed that from Wednesday next (20 May) all new passenger bookings, including those travelling with infants and checked in bags, will move to online check-in and ‘bag-drop’ only as Ryanair phases out the use airport of check-in desks from its 146 airports by 1 October next.

Ryanair has today (13 May 2009) announced the appointment of Laszlo Tamas as Sales and Marketing Manager for the UK and Ireland. Laszlo graduated in Commerce and Tourism from the Budapest Business School and obtained an MBA at University of Debrecen in Hungary.

Ryanair has made a statement calling for the early sale of London Stansted after BAA figures confirmed that passenger traffic at the airport decreased by 13% in April (despite the Easter holiday) and highlighted that traffic has plummeted by 14% at London Stansted in the first four months of 2009.

Ryanair has confirmed that it will not implement a ‘fat tax’ because there is no way to collect it without disrupting its 25 minute turnarounds and its online check-in process. Ryanair confirmed that more than 16,000 passengers voted in its latest online poll to identify how the airline should charge larger passengers.

Ryanair has today slashed its lowest fares by 75% as it released 1 million ‘May Madness Seats’ for travel in late May, June and early July which are available at ryanair.com until midnight Sunday 10 May.

Ryanair has welcomed the issue of a new operating licence at Dusseldorf (Weeze) airport which will allow Ryanair to continue to base aircraft and operate its full flight schedule from the airport.

Ryanair today announced that it will allow “price comparison only” websites to access its timetable and pricing information in order to compare Ryanair’s guaranteed lowest fares with those of high fares, fuel surcharging, competitor airlines.

Ryanair, Europe’s leading low fares airline, today confirmed that it will close its base at Dusseldorf-Weeze with the potential loss of 2.5m passengers and 2,500 local jobs if the decision by the OVG Court in Munster to restrict the airport’s operating hours is not overturned.

Ryanair today announced that it will now consider how to charge a ‘fat tax’ after more than 30,000 passengers voted in favour of charging excess weight fees for very large passengers in an online vote over the past two weeks.

Ryanair confirmed that it has signed a new partnership agreement until 2014 with Hertz, the World’s largest general use car rental brand, which will see Ryanair passengers gain access to the Hertz car rental convenience and best value rates.