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\n Fly Ryanair and gamble<\/b>\n <\/p>\n

\n Ryanair’s latest potential cash generating scheme is
\n to provide in-flight gambling. No fills Ryanair
\n already charge for the ‘frills’ such as food,
\n luggage and movies, and, more famously ice if they could
\n get away with it, are now considering providing gambling
\n on board its planes. News reports say that gambling
\n operators have expressed interest, although there are no
\n formal talks underway.\n <\/p>\n

\n Ryanair’s Chief Exec warns of reduction in low
\n cost operators<\/b>\n <\/p>\n

\n Ryanair and easyJet are widely credited to have helped
\n transform Europe’s low cost airline industry.
\n Ryanair’s chief executive Michael O'Leary
\n recently warned the World Low Cost Airlines Congress that
\n “there will a bloodbath in Europe this winter”
\n in the budget air sector. “The bloodbath will reach
\n all the companies,” said O'Leary, who has
\n previously predicted that only one or two large low-fares
\n airlines will be left flying the skies of Europe in the
\n medium term. Competition in the low cost, no frills
\n airline industry is intensifying. In 2000 there were
\n just five low-cost airlines in Europe, now there are 49,
\n according to Wolfgang Kurth, president of the European Low
\n Fares Airline Association and chief executive of TUI's
\n no-frills carrier Hapag-Lloyd Express. Webster told
\n the conference that low-cost airlines could take advantage
\n of short-haul routes likely to be neglected by the larger,
\n established carriers.\n <\/p>\n

\n Ryanair adopts a school<\/b>\n <\/p>\n

\n Cause related marketing is a live and well.
\n Ryanair’s Head of Communications Paul Fitzsimmons
\n recently said: “It’s back to school time for
\n parents everywhere, and we’re giving people an
\n opportunity to grab a back to school bargain with flights
\n for ONLY 10p on many of our routes from Stansted and at
\n the same time help our adopted school Mountfitchet High
\n School. We will sell 200,000 seats at this fare, which
\n means we can donate £20,000.00 to the school.
\n It is fitting that as http:\/\/www.ryanair.com<\/a> is
\n Europe’s biggest travel website, that Mountfitchet
\n High School is to use our donation to further upgrade
\n their IT facilities for pupils. We would urge
\n passengers to book quickly as demand will be huge and to
\n remember that not only will they fly with Europe’s
\n No.1 low fares airline, but they will also be helping
\n school children further their computer education.”\n <\/p>\n

\n Announcing the support for Mountfitchet High School at a
\n photo call in the school, Mountfitchet High School
\n Headmistress, Jo Mullis said: “We are delighted to
\n have been chosen by Ryanair as their adopted school.
\n Ryanair’s support comes at an important time,
\n because with this help we can buy computer equipment for
\n our pupils, which will help us to achieve our goal of
\n becoming an IT merited school. We hope lots of
\n people will buy their Ryanair flight knowing that Ryanair
\n are donating the entire fare to our school
\n project.” Pass the sick bag, somebody.\n <\/p>\n

\n Ryanair told to pay back EU subsidy<\/b>\n <\/p>\n

\n No-frills Irish airline Ryanair has said that it would
\n repay EUR4 million in subsidies it received to operate
\n from Belgium's Charleroi Airport, pending an appeal to
\n the European Court of Justice. In February, European
\n Union regulators told Ryanair to repay EUR3.9 million
\n (USD$4.97 million) to the regional government of Wallonia
\n in southern Belgium, which had offered Ryanair cheap rates
\n at the region's Charleroi Airport. “(Ryanair)
\n agreed to repay EUR4 million in an escrow account until
\n Ryanair's appeal is heard,” the airline said in
\n a statement. The money will go into a blocked
\n account, to which Ryanair will regain access if it wins
\n its appeal. “We remain very confident that we will
\n win,” Chief Executive Officer Michael O'Leary
\n told a news conference in Brussels. O'Leary said
\n the airline reserved the right to quit Charleroi if an
\n adverse ruling raised costs, but said he intended to keep
\n operations at their current level until then.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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