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Irish low cost air carrier Ryanair is embellishing its 2016 summer flight schedule with five new routes from Athens to Bucharest, Corfu, Malta, Bologna and Mykonos as well as more flights to Thessaloniki, Rhodes and Santorini.

Ryanair launched their winter flights offering airline travel for the price of a scorching hot cappuccino! The budget airline revealed seats across 250 European routes going for just 5 euros for the month of December.

Irish low-cost airline Ryanair will include two new routes in its schedule from Athens to Dublin and Berlin next year.

According to Ryanair’s sales and marketing manager for Greece, John Alborante, the route to Dublin will start in March 2016 with three flights per week, whereas the route to Berlin will be covered with one daily flight.

Irish airline Ryanair's first-half net profits soared by nearly 40 percent on keen demand, the strong pound, fuel savings and poor weather conditions in northern Europe, it said Nov. 2.

A German court ruled Lufthansa pilots must halt a strike on Sept. 9 that led to the cancellation of around 1,000 flights, in an increasingly bitter row over cost cuts and pay at the airline.

The pilots' union Vereinigung Cockpit said the decision meant all pilots must return to work immediately though it was unclear when flights would return to normal.

The airport of the Bulgarian capital recorded a 8.3 % increase in the number of passengers in July compared to the same month in 2014.

A total of 393 312 passengers were serviced in July, with 67 % of them going through Terminal 2, while the remaining 33 % passed through Terminal 1, which services the low-cost airlines.

Low-cost carrier Ryanair launches flights to Sofia as of May 2016.

The first route to be serviced by the company will be Sofia Airport - London Stansted Airport, according to an announcement published on the airline's website.

Tickets will go on sale in September.

Ryanair currently only operates flights from Plovdiv Airport.

German airline Lufthansa said on July 30 it saw no let-up in the pressure on fares in Europe, mainly as budget carriers like Ryanair move in on its home market.,

The cap controls, a repercussion of a surprise decision by the leftist Tsipras government to call a referendum on creditors’ proposal, also made online shopping with multinationals by holders of Greek cards impossible.

A Ryanair plane was struck by a bird while landing at Plovdiv Airport at about 21:00 on Wednesday evening, local news sources say.

The bird seems to have caused engine trouble to the Boeing aircraft, and it took repair workers a few hours to fix it, daily Trud reports.

The aircraft managed to take off at 01.35 EEST on Thursday morning.