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By the end of 1989 Ryanair was on the brink of collapse, and Tony Ryan informed the Irish government that he would only put more money into the airline if he got government protection from Aer Lingus's predatory tactics. Ryanair successfully lobbied the Irish government to change to a two airline policy, by dividing up Britain's airports between Aer Lingus and Ryanair. In particular, the Irish government decided that London's Heathrow and Gatwick airports would be the sole domain of Aer Lingus, and London's Luton and Stansted airports would be only for Ryanair flights.
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All Ryanair flights into Newquay are operated on Boeing 737-800 series aircraft which seat 189 passengers. The Stansted Express links central London (Liverpool Street Station) with Stansted airport in just 45 minutes making the journey from central London to Stansted airport easier than ever. To see connecting flights out of Stansted go to www.baa.com/changingplanesatstansted.
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The counterpoint to the all-automated Ryanair way, perhaps: Scott McCartney has a nice feature on human touches that make the inflight experience more enjoyable. In this case, it’s United pilot Denny Flanagan, who hands out business cards with handwritten notes thanking customers for their business, orders takeout for passengers when there’s a diversion, and phones parents of unaccompanied minors when there’s a flight delay. Wow. Give that man a bonus.
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Ryanair [W]ill launch new daily service from London Stansted to Brno, Granada and Wroclow as well as a new daily flight from London Gatwick to Knock. Flights to Brno and Wroclaw will begin March 24 while Granada service commences Feb. 7. Service to Knock will begin Jan. 19. In addition, the carrier will increase flights from Stansted to Cork from three to four daily Jan. 19 and to Shannon from two to three daily Jan. 19 and to four daily on March 24. It ... will launch a second daily summer service from Stansted to Nimes March 14 2005. Nov 22, 2004
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Ryanair obtains permission from the regulatory authorities to challenge the British Airways and Aer Lingus' high fare duopoly on the Dublin-London route. Services are launched with two (46-seater) turbo prop BAE748 aircraft. The first flights operate in May from Dublin to London Luton. The launch fare of £99 return is less than half the price of the BA/Aer Lingus lowest return fare of £209. Both British Airways and Aer Lingus slash their high prices in response to Ryanair's. Ryanair starts the first fare war in Europe.
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Ryanair is often accused of flying to airports which, while cheap, are too far away from the cities they say they are serving. For example, the airline used to advertise a service to "Copenhagen", Denmark which actually flew to Malmö, in Sweden. This service is now advertised as Malmö. Legal actions forced name changes on routes previously referred to as "Düsseldorf (Niederrhein)" and "St. Etienne (Lyons)", but in other cases court actions have upheld the designated name of the route — this was the case for Frankfurt Hahn, over 100 km from central Frankfurt. In February 2005, the same issue made headlines after an advertisment published in Norway's Aftenposten featured flights from Oslo to London Prestwick, an airport that doesn't exist with that name; Prestwick Airport is in Scotland, 400 miles from London [7][8].
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