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Aeroflot winds up Irish subsidiary amid financial squeeze over Russia war

Company headquartered in a Dublin solicitor’s office does not appear to have traded since its incorporation

Frequency aims to bring legacy aviation communication technology up to speed

The software start-up has developed a platform that will make it possible for airline staff to share text, voice, video or photos at the same time, giving all users an overall view of where flights are

DAA asked aviation regulator for short queue bonuses

The operator of Dublin Airport said it should be ‘incentivised’ to keep queues below 20 minutes and 30 minutes respectivel, for a certain percentage of time rather than being penalised when it failed to do so

Lacking authority: How DAA struggled to hold the line and will it happen again?

The chaotic scenes witnessed at the country’s biggest airport in recent days have their root in DAA’s drastic misjudgment of a problem it had seen coming from a long way off. As the pressure slowly eases, the question now is whether such lengthy queues can be prevented in the future

Matt Cooper: Avolon boss’s €150m plan to bring the brightest and best here could pay off

It will be considered elitist by some, but Dómhnal Slattery’s proposal to attract the ‘best brainpower in the world’ to Ireland to carry out research here could bring big rewards

Dublin Airport: Passengers who arrive too early will have to wait in outdoor ‘holding areas’

Airport was down 37 staff last Sunday when more than 1,400 people missed their flights due to lengthy security queues

Ryanair courts Airbus after O’Leary’s rant at Boeing’s ‘headless chickens’

After public spat with its usual partner Boeing, the airline is looking further afield to expand its fleet to carry projected 165 million passengers this year

General Electric moves to wind up Irish entity that sent $65bn to US

The multinational has filed a notice to liquidate an Irish subsidiary and shifted money stateside, as many others have done following Trump tax incentive

IAG boss: European short-haul flights close to pre-Covid levels

Bookings for both for business and leisure are almost back to pre-pandemic levels despite Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, says Luis Gallego

Up in the air: uncertainty as aircraft lessors face writing off billions

New EU sanctions mean companies, including Irish lessors, may be forced to leave their planes stranded in Russia while the Kremlin has hit back with a law allowing foreign-registered aircraft to be re-registered in Russia

Belarus was behind Ryanair flight hijacking, Byrne says

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the exiled opposition leader, wants Ireland to urge the UN to discuss last year’s ‘act of aircraft piracy’ following completion of ICAO report

Ryanair chief: airline will grow at expense of weakened rivals

Eddie Wilson credits the Traffic Recovery Scheme, which offers airlines a rebate for restoring traffic, with Ryanair’s decision to invest heavily in Dublin

UN report finds bomb threat that grounded Ryanair flight in Belarus was ‘deliberately false’

New report details inconsistent evidence presented by Belarusian authorities, while the air traffic controller who downed Ryanair flight 4978 cannot be contacted

Government supports gave Ryanair ‘confidence’ to launch largest ever summer schedule from Dublin Airport

Airline says schedule will include 120 destinations and more than 900 weekly flights

Matt Cooper: Living in interesting times: what may lie in store for us in 2022

From an election-hungry Sinn Féin to fuel prices and the possibility of long term inflation and interest rate rises, the coming year looks likely to further test our patience and endurance

Ryanair drops €14 million damages claim in settlement with trade union Forsa

A judge had ruled that Michael O’Leary’s phone records, texts and Whatsapp messages be searched as part of the lawsuit

R116 crash warning system was based on Russian military maps

The Air Accident Investigation Unit’s report into the crash revealed that the system did not warn the crew of the presence of Blackrock Island, which is 70 metres above sea level, before their helicopter crashed into it on March 14, 2017

Michael O’Leary’s phone records, texts and Whatsapp messages to be searched as part of lawsuit Ryanair is taking

A High Court judge made the decision after the court heard airline’s chief executive ‘doesn’t do email’

Company Watch: Aer Lingus hopes for post-Covid take-off as US flights sell out

The airline has lost €270 million so far this year, but is optimistic that it can slowly return to normal now the US is opening up for travel

Company Watch: Up, up and away again as Ryanair’s revenues soar by 83%

The airline is recovering quickly from the pandemic slump with more passengers, more routes and Michael O’Leary back in combative mood