February 13, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Stansted":
National: 5 Aug 10
Ryanair has reversed plans to axe its route between Stockholm Västerås and London, the airline has confirmed. Meanwhile, a number of new routes have been announced.
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National: 17 May 10
Volcano ash from the Eyjafjallajökull volcano on Iceland has caused further disruption to flights from Sweden on Monday after the UK and Ireland were forced to close airports.
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National: 16 Apr 10
Swedish authorities have begun reopening airspace in the north of the country although widespread disruption persists with Stockholm's main Arlanda airport unlikely to open until Saturday morning at the earliest.
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National: 2 Feb 10
A 37-year-old British citizen has been arrested in Sweden after staff on a Ryanair plane claimed they spotted him secretly filming their security procedures.
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National: 7 Jan 10
A Latvian passenger whose drunken mid-air antics plunged a Ryanair flight into turmoil last summer has successfully appealed against an eight month jail term as a Swedish appeal court cleared him of sabotage charges.
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National: 5 Nov 09
A Swedish prosecutor is pushing for a longer sentence for a Latvian man who was jailed for eight months after attempting to open a cabin door on board a Ryanair plane. The man was restrained by two professional boxers.
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Business & Money: 21 Sep 09
An offer of “free flights” by discount airline Ryanair to executives of Scandinavian airline SAS has erupted into a war of words between the rival airlines on Facebook which has invoked the character of a popular Jim Carrey film.
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Analysis & Opinion: 17 Aug 09
Airline industry veteran Rick Methven talks up the virtues of low cost air travel and recalls a pre-Ryanair era of outlandish prices and skies closed to the average consumer.
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Travel: 10 Aug 09
This summer, for the inevitable trip back to the UK, Ben Kersley was determined to avoid air travel and attempt to recapture the lost art of travel.
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Travel: 20 Sep 08
A Swedish woman was obliged to buy a new ticket when travelling home on Ryanair after a weekend with her daughter in London. The problem - her name was too long.
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National: 19 Jul 07
Ryanair released tickets for 11 new routes from 7 bases around Europe on Thursday. The new routes include Dublin to Stockholm Skavsta but five Swedish routes will cease to operate as part of the change.
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National: 8 Feb 07
Heavy snow in southern England has led to the cancellation of flights between Sweden and London.
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National: 23 Jan 07
A major telecoms network fault grounded flights from Skavsta on Tuesday evening, with incoming flights diverted to other airports.
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National: 18 Oct 06
Irish low-cost airline Ryanair is to launch new routes from Västerås airport to London Stansted and Dublin, following the new government's axing of plans for a new flight tax.
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National: 10 Aug 06
Flights from Sweden to London were still being cancelled on Thursday evening, with BA services worst hit. SAS flights to London were running, but incoming flights were cancelled. Ryanair escapes the worst of the delays.
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National: 2 Nov 05
A Ryanair plane on a flight from Finland to Britain was forced to make an emergency landing in Malmö on Tuesday after experiencing engine trouble. The plane was carrying 111 passengers.
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Analysis & Opinion: 6 Oct 05
Our Stockholm Syndrome correspondent meets an Englishman who, despite one setback after another in the Swedish capital, just won't give up and go home.
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National: 30 Sep 05
A Ryanair pilot who landed a plane too fast at Stockholm Skavsta, in what an air accident report described as a "serious incident", was suffering marital problems and was to due to return home to Australia.
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Business & Money: 30 May 05
Tickets for new low-cost route from Stockholm to London have gone on sale. Swedish airline FlyMe says it wants to compete with SAS and British Airways for business customers.
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Business & Money: 9 Sep 04
A series of negative newspaper articles and an airport protest by a trade union provokes a response from Ryanair's famously abrasive chief executive. But does anyone care when you can fly to Paris for 348 crowns?
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As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »
Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »
"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »
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