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RNS Number : 8410C Ryanair Holdings PLC 20 November 2009

RYANAIR NO 1 Customer Service StatISTICs - OCTOBER 2009

Ryanair, the World's favorite airline, today (Friday, 20th November 2009) released its customer service statistics for October. Ryanair has a policy of publishing its customer service statistics each month. These confirm that Ryanair delivers Europe's No 1 customer service to airline passengers.

During the month of October 2009:

RNS Number : 7645C Ryanair Holdings PLC 19 November 2009

Ryanair announces 3 NEW AIRCRAFT aND 10 new routes FROM

Bristol, edinburgh, glasgow (PIK) & Liverpool

500,000 £1 CHRISTMAS SEAT SALE

Ryanair, the world's favourite airline, announced today (19th Nov) that it will invest an additional $210m in UK tourism as it bases new aircraft in Bristol (up one to five) and Liverpool (up two to eight), from 28th March, and opens ten new routes from Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow (Prestwick) and Liverpool Airports, from February next, which will deliver 400,000 additional passengers p.a. and sustain 400 new jobs at these airports in 2010.

All Ryanair's new routes from Bristol to Faro, Gdansk, Palma de Mallorca, Venice (Treviso) and Valencia, from Edinburgh to Tampere, from Glasgow (Prestwick) to Carcassonne and from Liverpool to Lodz, Rimini and Trapani will be available for booking tomorrow, Friday (20th Nov), on www.ryanair.com. Ryanair will also increase frequencies on two Bristol and four Liverpool routes.

Ryanair celebrated these three new aircraft and ten new routes by extending its 500,000 £1 Christmas seat sale to midnight Friday (20th Nov), for travel in late December, which is available for booking on www.ryanair.com.

Ryanair's Stephen McNamara said:

"Ryanair is delighted to announce three new aircraft and ten new routes for Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow Prestwick and Liverpool airports which will deliver 400,000 additional passengers and sustain 400 new jobs while ensuring increased competition and choice for consumers.

"Ryanair routes at these airports deliver millions of passengers, and sustain thousands of jobs at each airport and in the surrounding regions every year.

"To celebrate these new aircraft, routes and frequencies Ryanair is extending its 500,000 £1 Christmas seat sale, for travel across Europe in late December, until midnight Friday. Since seats at these crazy low prices will be snapped up quickly, we urge passengers to book them immediately on www.ryanair.com."

New Ryanair routes:

Route Begin
Faro 31 Mar
Gdansk 1 Apr
Palma 31 Mar
Treviso 31 Mar

Valencia 25 Feb

Edinburgh

Route Begin

Tampere 1 Apr

Glasgow (Prestwick)
Route Begin

Carcassonne 31 Mar

Liverpool

Route Begin
Lodz 1 Apr
Rimini 31 Mar

Trapani 30 Mar

Increased Frequencies: Route Malaga Malta

Liverpool

Route Faro Krakow Poznan Wroclaw

Ends. Thursday, 19th November 2009

For further information:

Stephen McNamara Pauline McAlester
Ryanair Murray Consultants
Tel: 00 353 1 812 1271 Tel: 00 353 1 4980 300

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DUBLIN, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Irish airline Aer Lingus warned employees on Wednesday that it will implement an alternative cost cutting plan if agreement cannot be reached over proposed measures by the end of November.
Aer Lingus, which has fended off two hostile bids by Irish rival Ryanair, the industry leader in cutting costs, wants to reduce its annual operating costs by 97 million euros ($145.2 million) by shedding almost one-fifth of staff.
The SIPTU and UNITE trade unions, which represent ground staff and technical workers at the company, oppose the cuts and the airline said it had agreed to meet employee representatives.
Aer Lingus said compulsory redundancies could not be ruled out if the required savings had not been agreed in full when talks conclude on Nov. 30.
"These alternative means will include further reductions in capacity resulting from an uneconomic cost base, which in turn will lead to additional redundancies beyond those included in the plan," the former state carrier said in a statement.
"While the preference will be for such redundancies to be on a voluntary basis, compulsory redundancies cannot be ruled out," it added.
Aer Lingus, which has been rapidly been burning through its cash reserves, re-affirmed that it was essential the planned savings were urgently achieve in, what it described as, an extremely challenging operating environment.
(Reporting by Padraic Halpin; editing by Elaine Hardcastle) ($1=.6680 Euro) Keywords: AERLINGUS/

(padraic.halpin@reuters.com; Reuters Messaging: padraic.halpin.reuters.com@reuters.net; +353 1 500 1504)

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RNS Number : 6375C Ryanair Holdings PLC 17 November 2009

EasyJet Warns of "Tough Winter" Because They Can't Compete

with Ryanair's Low Fares

Ryanair today (17 Nov 09) rejected EasyJet's latest claims that it offered better value than Ryanair. Ryanair's 66m passengers are never wrong. The only reason why EasyJet is able to carry 45m passengers is because many of these people could not get seats on Ryanair's fully booked aircraft.

Ryanair's Stephen McNamara said:

"Passengers prefer Ryanair's average fare of £30 because it's half than EasyJet's fare of £60. This is why Ryanair is adding new bases and new routes all over Europe while Easyjet is closing bases and pulling aircraft from Luton, Liverpool, East Midlands, Bristol and Rome Ciampino. EasyJet's results today show their ex-fuel unit costs have risen 6% in the past year while Ryanair has reduced its ex fuel unit costs by 5%. The gap between Ryanair and high cost EasyJet is getting wide,r which is why EasyJet is slowing growth and pulling routes.

"In order for Ryanair to match EasyJet we would have to double our average fare, something we have no intention in doing because this winter we will lower our fares even further to insure an even "tougher winter" for high fare airlines like EasyJet, BA and others".

Ends. Tuesday, 17th November 2009

For further information

Please contact:

Stephen McNamara Pauline McAlester
Ryanair Ltd Murray Consultants
Tel: +353-1-812171 Tel. +353-1-4980300

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