GIVEN HIS multi millions, it’s hard to imagine Lord Alan Sugar travelling with Ryanair too often, but the Irish airline’s first-quarter results this week prompted a cheeky tweet on Tuesday from the Apprentice host. “Ryanair reports a fall of 29 per cent in profit,” the wealthy businessman noted. “I can see signs in the loos now saying: ‘Toilet paper, please use both sides.’”
IRISH AIRLINE CityJet has launched its own music channel in association with MBM Records. It’s called OnAir and allows visitors to CityJet’s website and Facebook page to listen to tracks from European and US indie and pop artists such as Bag Raiders, Jens Lekman and Bon Iver.
The airline has also developed a playlist for its flights. CityJet says the music will give customers the “latest trends in contemporary music”, and is handing out CDs at airports to promote the service. Groovy.
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STICKING WITH aviation, Ulick McEvaddy’s plan of building a rival terminal beside Dublin Airport appears to have been permanently grounded. His company, Dublin Airport Terminal 2 Ltd, has been struck off by the Companies Registration Office.
McEvaddy’s co-director was property developer Gerry Gannon, a landowner around the airport. McEvaddy had hoped to build an independently-owned second terminal, but his plans were dashed by the last government after it mandated the State-owned Dublin Airport Authority to build the existing T2, which opened in 2010.
That decision, combined with the collapse of traffic in the recession (passenger numbers fell by 4.7 million at Dublin Airport between 2008 and last year), meant McEvaddy’s plan never took off.
