“Mini-scoop about Ryanair: sometimes is cheaper to book two one-way tickets separately than a round-trip ticket.” Link: www.alfb.net

“Singapore-based low-cost airline Tiger Airways said today it expected passenger numbers to hit 3 million next year as it takes delivery of new aircraft and launches new routes.” Link: New Zealand Herald

“Thousands of British travellers are likely to have lost cash following the collapse of a Scandinavian low-cost airline. Swe Fly, based near Stockholm in Sweden, has stopped flying. Three months ago, it launched flights from Luton and Leeds-Bradford to the Swedish airport of Skavsta, with connections to Lahore in Pakistan. More than 300 passengers who…

“Stranded Ryanair passengers were forced to hire a bus and drive 600 miles home after their flight was cancelled and they were told that the next aircraft out of a small French airport would be in 10 days time.” http://www.telegraph.co.uk

“BRITISH Airways, which for years thrived on trumpeting itself as ‘the world’s favourite airline’, has been hit by perhaps the ultimate ignominy – being overtaken in size by the upstart Irish budget airline Ryanair.” http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id@3448&in_page_id=2

“UK-based Ryanair, last Friday, ran an ad that referenced the recent London bombings to promote low fares. The ad appeared in UK newspapers last week with the headline, “London Fights Back,” an image of Winston Churchill and a speech bubble that contained an alteration of a famous June 1940 speech and read, “ “We shall…