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DAA hires extra cleaning company after criticism over hygiene at Dublin Airport

MCR Group has been contracted on a ‘short-term basis’ after a shortage of outsourced cleaning staff led to widespread complaints over hygiene at the airport

Ian Guider: How is Ryanair rising above the storm that is battering its rivals?

As other airlines flounder during the busy summer season, Michael O’Leary is not only surviving but thriving. What’s his secret sauce?

O’Leary: Ryanair shareholders won’t get cash return until 2024

Chief executive expects his airline to recover from Covid-19 and the war in Ukraine, achieving net zero debt in the next two years

Aer Lingus calls Dublin Airport security queues ‘problematic’ and urges improved cleaning standards

Airline says operational challenges are making it ‘impossible’ to deliver on customer service

Ryanair posts €170m profit in second quarter as passenger numbers recover

Easter bookings and fares, however, were badly damaged by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February

The Big Interview

‘Renting a car this summer is between 150-180% more expensive’ - Aileen McCormack of CarTrawler

The car rental software firm not only survived the pandemic but acquired a new investor and secured key partners. It is now thriving with its move into the US, says its chief commercial officer

Departure gates: Easyjet’s Peter Bellew and the aviation turbulence that preceded his resignation

The aviation heavy-hitter last week stepped down as chief executive of EasyJet, the British low-cost airline, following weeks of cancelled flights and chaos for passengers

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