Articles tagged “Ryanair”

In this special edition of the Airline Weekly Lounge, we sit down with Ryanair Group CEO Michael O'Leary. No subject is off the table as we discuss everything from social…

Wizz Air CEO József Váradi was almost flattered by the amount of time Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary spent on his airline's recent earnings call to take down Wizz. In fact,…

No one has ever called Ryanair or its colorful CEO Michael O'Leary bashful, and that's proving to be true as European travelers slowly return to the sky. The discounter has…

The U.S. State Department has suspended the 2019 U.S.-Belarus bilateral air services agreement in the aftermath of that country hijacking a Ryanair flight last month to detain a dissident journalist,…

The UK and the European Union moved to strike back against Belarus after the country forced a Ryanair flight to land in Minsk in order to detain a dissident journalist.…

The leaders of Europe's largest budget carriers, EasyJet and Ryanair, have distinctly different takes on the outlook for the coming summer travel season.

More and more people are traveling by air in Mexico, but Mexico’s airlines continue to struggle. All four of its main carriers had a disappointing 3rd quarter, which is historically…

Of Europe’s “Big Three” airline groups, International Airlines Group (IAG) continues to significantly outperform the other two, namely Air France/KLM and Lufthansa Group. A big part of IAG’s success is…

Thanks to rising costs, it’s no surprise profits have declined at Air Canada and WestJet. But rising costs alone don’t explain how these Canadian carriers continue to consistently underperform their…

Despite a 29% year-over-year increase to its labor costs, Ryanair still posted a positive profit margin in the first quarter. Ryan’s eastern European counterpart, Wizz Air, meanwhile faced an even…