SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 6-K
Report of Foreign Private Issuer
Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
For the month of August, 2006
RYANAIR HOLDINGS PLC
(Translation of registrant's name into English)
c/o Ryanair Ltd Corporate Head Office
Dublin Airport
County Dublin Ireland
(Address of principal executive offices)
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual
reports under cover Form 20-F or Form 40-F.
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contained in this Form is also thereby furnishing the information to the
Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934.
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in connection with Rule 12g3-2(b): 82- ________
RYANAIR RELEASES 1 MILLION GBP25 SEAT SALE
FOR AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER
CALLS ON GOVERNMENT
TO RESTORE NORMAL SECURITY RESTRICTIONS
"LET'S GET BRITAIN FLYING AGAIN"
Ryanair, Britain's largest passenger airline, this morning (Friday, 18th August
2006) announced that it has released 1 million seats for sale on over 100 routes
from the UK to Europe, for travel during August and September. These seats which
are priced at GBP25 one way (including all taxes, fees and charges) can be
bought just three days in advance of travel, at these lowest ever peak Summer
fares. Ryanair is releasing these cheap seats to get Britain flying again, which
is the best way to defeat terrorists and extremists.
Ryanair also confirmed this morning that they have written to the Secretary of
State for Transport, asking him to immediately restore the security measures at
Britain's airports to the IATA "normal" standards in order to get Britain's
airports and airlines moving again. Whilst airports and schedules are returning
to normal in recent days, this is mainly due to emergency rosters and overtime
being operated by airport security staff. The extraordinary efforts of these
people are not sustainable and the only way to prove to the terrorists that they
cannot disrupt British life is to return the airport security requirements to
their safe pre-9 August levels. This will involve:
1. Restoring the hand luggage allowance for passengers leaving British
airports to the normal IATA dimensions of a small wheelie case, which is
just 20% larger than the current restriction of a "large briefcase"
dimension. There is no difference in security whatsoever between a large
briefcase and a small carry on wheelie bag.
2. Returning the passenger body searches from the current one in two to
the normal one in four which still allows any suspect flights or suspect
passengers to be individually body searched. This will reduce the
pressure on security staff as well as eliminating the queues and delays
at British airports security points.
3. Ryanair has also asked for the Transport Minister's assurance that
the next time the Government quadruples the number of individual body
searches, that they will send in police and army reserve personnel to
help carry out these additional searches. This will at least allow the
increased security to be carried out, in an emergency, without the
disruptions, delays and cancellations that have characterised the chaos
at London airports over the past week.
Ryanair has confirmed to the Secretary of State for Transport that if the
Government restores the security at British airports to these normal IATA levels
within the next seven days then it will not make any claim for compensation,
which it is entitled to, under the provisions of Section 93 of the Transport Act
2000.
Announcing today's seat sale in London Stansted, Ryanair's Chief Executive,
Michael O'Leary said:
"The best way to defeat terrorists and extremists is for ordinary people
to continue to live their lives as normal. Because of the additional
security restrictions imposed by the Government last Thursday, the
shambles at the London airports has been anything but normal.
"The UK Government successfully led the return to normality of the
London Underground within two days of the 7/7 terrorist attacks. It is
important that they now restore security at the London airports to
normality and remove some of these nonsensical, and (from a security
perspective) totally ineffective restrictions which were introduced last
week. If they don't, and if they allow these restrictions stay in place,
then the Government will have handed the extremists an enormous PR
victory.
"Ryanair, by releasing 1 million seats for sale at just GBP25 one way
for travel during the remainder of August and September, is playing its
part to encourage British people to keep flying, and more importantly,
encourage British visitors to come to London, which is the best message
we can send to the extremists namely, that we will not allow the
economic life of Britain to be disrupted by their mindless and senseless
activities.
"The 1 million seats at these low prices are available for sale for one
week only at www.ryanair.com, and I urge everyone to defeat terrorism,
book early and keep Britain flying".
Ends. Friday, 18th August 2006
For further information:
Peter Sherrard - Ryanair Pauline McAlester - Murray Consultants
Tel: 00 353 1 812 1228 Tel: 00 353 1 4980 300
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned, hereunto duly authorized.
RYANAIR HOLDINGS PLC
Date: 18 August 2006
By:___/s/ James Callaghan____
James Callaghan
Company Secretary & Finance Director