St Helena's £285m airport, dubbed the "world's most useless" after a series of setbacks, will finally welcome its first scheduled service on Saturday.more
When choosing the destination for a much-needed getaway, I imagined sun-soaked beaches with crisp golden sand, poolside drinks and plenty of time to top up my tan. I did not for one second imagine that I would be spending my week with a group of total strangers, in a sports hotel located in the middle of a Polish forest. more
A former Cork prison has won a major European travel award. Spike Island has been named Europe's Leading Tourist Attraction at the 2017 World Travel Awards, seeing off a shortlist which included the Eiffel Tower, Buckingham Palace and the Colosseummore
Earlier this year Australia became the first country in the world to introduce strict legislation to clamp down on sex offenders leaving or attempting to go abroad. Now Ireland looks set to follow with draft legislation expected to be introduced later this month, which would pave the way for this country becoming the first European nation to make it illegal for convicted paedophiles to travel overmore
Two major airlines have taken a startup under their wings in pursuit of cleaner air travel. Boeing and JetBlue were revealed to be backing Zunum Aero back in April, and now, the company has set a target release date for their small hybrid-electric airliner: 2022.more
Ryanair's chief operations officer will leave the company at the end of the month, the crisis-hit airline has announced. Michael Hickey's resignation comes after the cancellation of tens of thousands of flights through to March next year.more
This is the moving moment a young man stepped in to help an autistic boy who was suffering a difficult episode on a train journey. Single mother Gayna Pealling hailed Daniel Ball, 21, "my hero" after he stepped in to help calm down her five-year-old son Jack, who has autism and ADHD.more
But for every New York, Paris, Rome, Barcelona and Moscow, the runways are also packed with planes heading directly to distant outposts that you definitely haven't heard of.more
An Air France A380 superjumbo jetliner taking more than 500 people from Paris to Los Angeles made an emergency landing in Canada on Saturday following "serious damage" to one of its four engines, the airline said.more
No-frills airline Ryanair has launched a one million seat fire-sale offering flights to Europe for as little as £5. After one of the worst weeks in its history, the Dublin-based carrier is attempting to win back customers with hundreds of rock-bottom prices this winter.more
This summer was the biggest yet for Airbnb in Ireland and the most popular spots to head for Irish people were in fact in Ireland. Seven of the top ten places were in Ireland and the sunny south east comes out on top as the premier destination.more
There will be 100,000 seats included in the sale for seat fares from October 4 until January 31 in 2018. Destinations include Madrid, Majorca, Amsterdam, Berlin, Zante and Barcelona from £20.99.more
News broke over the weekend that Ryanair would be cancelling about 50 flights a week for the next six weeks after they "messed up" on their pilots holiday time.more
A list has been revealed of the twenty most beautiful countries in the world and our Emerald Isle is on the list. The Rough Guide has revealed its list which includes Ireland in a modest 18th place.more
More than 20,000 Ryanair passengers have had their flights on Tuesday cancelled due to a strike by French air-traffic controllers. Many other travellers are being affected by the action by members of the USAC-CGT union.more
Officers from the Warsaw-Okecie Border Guard Station intervened due to a passenger who violated order regulations on board a plane flying from London Luton.more
Two strangers who met on a plane for the first time forced the aircraft to make an emergency landing after they got drunk and abused the cabin crew.more
Ryanair has said many customers will no longer be able to take two pieces of luggage into the cabin.
The budget airline said passengers without priority boarding would have to put their second bag in the hold free of charge at the gate.more
As the holiday season comes to and end, the good people of Britain have given us one more plane fight.
A brawl broke out on a Ryanair flight from Newcastle to Alicante recently which led to one woman being banned from the airline for life.more
