Ryanair has been accused of deliberately assigning passengers who choose not to pay for reserved seating to middle seats - and separating couples and groups. Travellers say the budget airline has abruptly changed its policy.more
LOT Polish Airlines is to increase capacity on its Warsaw-Heathrow flights, brushing aside uncertainties over a possible Brexit effect on air travel.more
Analysis of more than 850,000 flights to British airports revealed that 26 per cent failed to arrive within 15 minutes of their schedule last year.more
Theresa Carter, who flew with nine pals, was let on a Ryanair flight at Stansted using 15-year-old Joshua's passport - with a picture taken when he was 13.more
Every month there is a case of a passenger being scalded on a Ryanair flight, a cabin attendant told the Circuit Civil Court. Judge Jacqueline Linnane awarded Limerick woman Grainne Dunworth €10,500 damages over a scalding incident on a flight from Prague to Dublin in January last year.more
Qatar Airways said on Sunday it has signed a deal with global soccer body FIFA to be one of the official sponsors and the official airline of the next two World Cups, in Russia and Qatar.more
Ryanair have today released their latest traffic statistics for April which show traffic grew 14% to 11.3m customers while load factor rose 3% points to 96%.more
United Airlines and the passenger who was dragged from a Chicago flight earlier this month have reached a settlement for an undisclosed sum as part of the airline's latest step to contain damage from an incident that sparked international outrage.more
Days before Qantas officially launches its new non-stop flights from Britain to Australia, The Independent can reveal the likely schedule for the new flight. more
Polish police made an intervention with a passenger who suggested that he might have a bomb. He was fined 1,000 zlotys, and the representative of the airline he was supposed to fly did not let him board the plane.more
Popular British holiday destinations like Barcelona, Faro, Krakow and Rome have all been included in the sale, which is now online. The fares are all in April and May and they need to be booked before midnight next Tuesday.more
Up to 50,000 passengers a year are being "bumped off" British flights as airlines overbook to maximise profits. Experts said that "denied boarding" was becoming increasingly common because of competition among airlines, which led carriers to sell too many tickets to avoid flying with empty seats.more
Despite information about Brexit, LOT is observing a significant increase in demand for Warsaw-London flights, "said PLL LOT President Rafał Milczarski.more
The British carrier cancels plans to remove the Polish language version on its website. In a special communication there was information that from 4 April 2017 Polish passengers will no longer be able to use Polish, today BA changed their mind. "Nothing will change" - Londynek.net portal.more
A poor standard of English among foreign pilots risks leading to miscommunication and disaster in the skies over Britain, according to an official report.more
Britain's airports and nuclear power stations have been told to tighten their defences against terrorist attacks in the face of increased threats to electronic security systems.more
US intelligence and law enforcement agencies believe that ISIS and other terrorist organizations have developed innovative ways to plant explosives in electronic devices that FBI testing shows can evade some commonly used airport security screening methods, CNN has learned.more
