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Just days after being hit with negative publicity for redirecting a flight from London destined for Thessaloniki's Makedonia Airport to Timisoara in Romania due to the weather conditions at the Greek airport, Irish low-fare carrier Ryanair announced on Sunday that it will be halting its domestic service linking Athens with Thessaloniki.

Almost 640 flights were cancelled in Germany on Jan. 10 as security staff went on strike at three airports, meaning disruption for around 100,000 passengers.

Ryanair has been rated as the worst airline for the sixth consecutive year by Which?, with the consumer group claiming the Dublin-based carrier is still catching out passengers with hidden costs, reported the Guardian.

In the annual survey of short-haul airlines, passengers gave the airline the lowest possible rating for boarding, seat comfort, food and drink, and cabin environment.

For some, the plane trip from London to Thessaloniki took entirely too long.

About 200 passengers were on a Ryanair flight that was diverted Friday night to the Romanian city of Timisoara after foggy conditions in Thessaloniki made it impossible to land the plane there.

Of them, 89 declined the airline's offer to take them to Thessaloniki, about 770 kilometers away, by bus.

The deadline for submitting tenders for the Sofia Airport concession was extended due to the great interest of the candidates in the procedure. This was announced by Minister of Transport Rosen Zhelyazkov during the forum "Entrepreneurship, Development, Perspectives", which took place in Pomorie. In his words, specifically interested in the airport are budget airlines, reports money.bg

A Bulgarian man, who thought he was coming to Ireland to work was tricked into signing a fake marriage certificate to help an illegal immigrant get through Dublin Airport, a court has heard.

Svetoslav Stefchov, aged 26, who did not speak English, believed he had signed contracts for work in Ireland.

Ryanair on Nov. 5 announced its first flights ever from Bodrum Airport in Turkey—its 225th airport—and a new twice weekly service to Dublin, which will commence in May 2019, as part of its Summer 2019 schedule.

AFP - Ryanair will cut 150 flights because of strike action across Europe on Friday, as Brussels urged it to respect workers' rights enshrined in EU law.

The Dublin-based carrier said that it would cancel six percent of flights amid the walk-outs in Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. It had previously estimated 190 would be affected.

Low-cost carrier Ryanair announced on Thursday a new route from Athens to London's Luton airport, which will be part of the company's winter 2018 schedule with three flights per week.

Ryanair reached an agreement with the trade union representing its Irish pilots on Aug. 23, a breakthrough that sent its shares sharply higher as the budget airline strives to quell staff protests around Europe.