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Edition 273
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Friday 27th May 2016
THE SKY’S THE LIMIT! B
ritish expats using Ryanair services from Alicante-Elche and San Javier airports are set to benefit from the Irish budget airline’s announcement of an air price war. The company says that fares will fall by at least seven percent this year and up to 12 percent in the winter months as it fends off the competition from other airlines offering low fares in Europe. “If there is a fare war in Europe, then Ryanair will be the winner,” said Michael O'Leary, the company’s chief executive, speaking to journalists this week. Ryanair has promised to
BY ALEX TRELINSKI
beat rival companies after beating 2015 profits by 43 per cent to take €1.2 billion for the year to the end of March. Revenues rose 16 per cent to €6.5 billion in the year. The airline benefitted from lower fuel costs but
suffered from over 500 cancellations following the Brussels terrorist attacks. O'Leary said that "unjustified" strikes in Italy, Greece, Belgium and France had caused a further 200 cancellations and that its first
quarter 2016 profit would take a hit. Despite cancellations, passenger numbers have risen nine per cent and the airline said it expected to have carried 116 million passengers in the year to March. Ryanair uses a "load factor/yield passive" model that means that it decreases prices in order to keep its planes full. Over the past two years, the loads factor, or how full the planes are, has improved from 83 per cent to 93 per cent and Ryanair has almost increased its passenger numbers from 80 million to 106 million.
BRUTAL ATTACK A
British woman was beaten up and sexually assaulted by three men in a property at the La Tercia Golf Resort at Gea y Truyols in the Murcia region last Friday (May 20th). The raiders burst into the home at around 4.00pm and subjected the woman to a terrifying ordeal. No details over her age and whether she was a resident or staying on holiday were released by the authorities. The three assailants, who were said to be Spanish, drove to the address in a stolen car and went in demanding money.
The woman refused their request and according to
the police, was subjected to violence and a sexual
assault. The ordeal only ended because the woman's sister arrived and surprised them, leading them to flee as they stole her car, as well driving away in their other vehicle. The sister's vehicle was discovered on the roadlinking La Tercia to Sucina, and was taken away for examination by the Guardia Civil. No further information over the condition of the assaulted victim was made public or anything else in connection with the incident that happened in a normally quiet part of the Murcia region where serious crime is concerned.