The FINANCIAL -- Ryanair, the World’s one of the favourite airlines, today (Friday, 6th November 2009) announced that it carried four times the UK and Europe short-haul traffic of British Airways (once the World’s favourite airline) in October as 6.2m passengers travelled throughout Europe on Ryanair’s guaranteed lowest fares (up 15%) while BA’s short haul (UK and Europe) traffic fell by 4% to just 1.6m passengers.

The FINANCIAL -- The London Hilton on Park Lane is celebrating after winning ‘England’s Leading Business Hotel’ at the 2009 World Travel Awards. The glittering ceremony was held on 17th October at the Marriot Praia Del Rey Obidos, Portugal.

The FINANCIAL -- The new Czech Airlines Vice President for Marketing and Sales, effective 16 November 2009, will be Philippe Moreels, a Belgian manager with many years of experience with international sales networks and marketing.

The FINANCIAL -- The sixth Airbus А330 aircraft was delivered to JSC “Aeroflot – Russian Airlines”. The airliner is painted with the new SkyTeam alliance livery.

The FINANCIAL -- The Executive Committee of Alitalia - Compagnia Aerea Italiana SpA, met in Rome, chaired by Roberto Colaninno, and examined the results for the third quarter of the Group’s consolidated balance sheet, presented by CEO Rocco Sabelli.