Posted on April 19, 2010 by Fiona Hilliard

Image via Wikipedia British Airways is haemorrhaging £20m (€23m) a day, 150,000 British holidaymakers are stranded and most of Europe’s airports are lying empty, with the exception of the odd bit of tumbleweed.  So what’s all the fuss about – it’s only a bit of dust isn’t it? Well, no.  This isn’t any old dust, it’s volcanic [...]

Posted on March 31, 2010 by Fiona Hilliard

Image by Malz77 via Flickr Dortmund is a large, robust city in Germany’s Ruhrgebiet built on the solid foundations of coal, steel and er, beer. Ok, so the coal mines and steel mills are increasingly winding down or grinding  to a halt, but the local breweries are still merrily churning out the local tipple – [...]

Posted on December 09, 2009 by Fiona Hilliard

Image via Wikipedia Job cuts, closures, doom and gloom: bring it on – Michael O’Leary loves it.  Recently in Brussels, he was asked  by the Wall Street Journal how the recession was affecting Ryanair and the no frills boss had this to say: “We love recessions. We’ve lowered fares, lowered costs and grown the business by another [...]

Posted on October 21, 2009 by Fiona Hilliard

Image via Wikipedia Don’t know if you’ve heard but London’s Gatwick Airport has a big FOR SALE sign on it. BAA originally announced that it would sell Gatwick in September 2008, just before the end of the Competition Commission’s market investigation ended, but today it’s all official. Airport authorities say that it will lead to [...]

Posted on October 15, 2009 by Fiona Hilliard

And you thought penalty points for puddles was weird…buoyed on by the UK’s bizarre rainy-day driving law, we thought we’d do some digging to uncover some more of the same. The following are 10 of the world’s strangest driving laws.  Some are a little crazy, some a little unbelievable – all are completely TRUE: Watch for [...]

Posted on October 06, 2009 by Fiona Hilliard

For 15 years he’s fed us a no-frills diet of gratuitous publicity stunts, tacky photo shoots and loud-mouthed quips, but his reign as Ryanair boss may soon be at an end. Yes, Michael O’ Leary, chief executive of Ryanair is currently preparing to stand down – that’s if a report by business website CityAM.com is [...]