Ryanair has come under attack after passengers stranded on a badly-delayed flight were refused refreshments, leaving them nothing to eat or drink but ice cubes.

Ryanair is swapping the only type of card that can be used to avoid a charge when booking a flight with the airline. Users of the Mastercard Prepaid card will not be charged the £5 per person administration charge from December 1.

Ryanair has announced it will open its first base in Norway and create 1,700 jobs in the process. The budget airline will open a base at Oslo Rygge Airport in March – its 37th in Europe.

Ryanair has revealed it is considering easing back on its decade-long expansion as it struggles to keep a lid on operating costs while maintaining its low fares. More specifically Ryanair is looking for a better deal on new aircraft from Boeing.

Ryanair, the World’s favourite airline, today (9th Oct ‘09) confirmed that it submitted over 50 separate complaints to Consumer Protection Authorities in Ireland, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain against blatant breaches of consumer legislation by screenscraper websites, including Bravofly, Opodo and Wegolo. Ryanair called on the National Consumer Agency of Ireland, the UK Office of Fair Trading and their equivalents in other European countries to take urgent action and compel these screenscraper websites to comply with the EU Checklist of Compliance with Consumer Rights Legislation in the Air Transport Sector.

Ryanair, Ireland’s favourite airline today called on the Department of Transport, to explain why it rejected Ryanair’s December 2008 offer for Aer Lingus, which guaranteed to double the size of Aer Lingus’ short-haul fleet and create 1,000 new jobs in the airline over a 5 year period, when yesterday the Board of Aer Lingus, which is controlled by the Irish Government and the trade unions announced 670 jobs losses, as well as pay and pension cuts in Aer Lingus.