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Full coverage: Airlines

“If we don’t keep innovating and thinking, we are going to get caught and lose market share”

From its HQ in north Dublin, ASL Aviation Holdings now owns or part-owns seven airlines around the world and is a global leader in freight transport. But, as its CFO Mark O’Kelly explains, this is just the start, and the company has big plans for the future.

Tom Lyons
18th Jan, 2023 - 14 min read

Flying nowhere slowly: CityJet’s Pat Byrne on examinership, battling the taxman and the state’s “reckless” Covid stance

Having piloted CityJet through examinership, founder Pat Byrne believes the airline's model will benefit in a post-Covid recovery – but he is a scathing critic of the state's handling of Covid-19.

Ian Kehoe
23rd Feb, 2021 - 22 min read

“Until a vaccine comes, travel will never be the same again”

Mary McKenna’s travel agency Tour America has sent a generation of Irish tourists to the country now worst hit by the pandemic. She expects no travel until Christmas and her team are busy rescheduling trips - but with a mother in a nursing home, she knows this is not only about business.

Thomas Hubert
11th May, 2020 - 16 min read

CityJet uncovered: How airline was grounded by mounting debts, spiralling losses and a global pandemic

Irish airline CityJet was already suffering before the Covid-19 lockdown grounded its fleet – and the pandemic made a bad situation much worse. New documents reveal the company’s torrid trading performance and its plan for survival.

Ian Kehoe
24th Apr, 2020 - 9 min read

The Devil’s couple: How an Irish businessman helped the hunt for 2 of Europe’s most wanted criminals

Murder convicts Jean-Claude Lacote and Hilde Van Acker have been extradited to Belgium after years on the run. Noel Hanley, one of their many fraud victims, relentlessly pursued them around the world.

Tom Lyons
21st Feb, 2020 - 15 min read

Austrian air control puts Ryanair subsidiary under watch

As ambulances met a Laudamotion flight at Dublin Airport, civil aviation officials increased their scrutiny of the Austrian low-fares airline. Is this a bump in the ascent of the company recently sold by a Formula 1 legend to Ryanair?

Thomas Hubert
5th Dec, 2019 - 4 min read
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