Monthly Archives: June 2005

“Budget airline Ryanair has announced four new routes and an increase in frequency on other services. The low-fare Irish carrier will be starting flights this autumn from Stansted in Essex to Grenoble in France, Kaunas in Lithuania the Polish towns of Lodz and Poznan.” http://www.ananova.com/business/story/sm_1436582.html http://www.ryanair.com

“A bicycle journey from Exeter UK across Europe Russia Siberia Mongolia to China” http://www.2wheels.org.uk/ride/index.asp

Irish Times Article – Most Irish-based Ryanair pilots claim victimisation “Almost all Ryanair’s Irish-based pilots are claiming to have been victimised by the airline, with some lodging multiple complaints with the Labour Relations Commission” Irish Times Article

“The US government has again pushed back the date by which biometric information must be included in passports of foreigners visiting the country. Countries with US visa waiver agreements are no longer required to issue their citizens with passports using chips that store biological information by 26 October, 2005.” http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/16/_bio_delay/

“Rules requiring Irish citizens to carry high-tech passports when visiting the US are to be dropped because the technology behind the scheme is seen as unreliable. The US Department of Homeland Security had previously set an October 2005 deadline for the inclusion of biometric information chips in the passports of European citizens who avail themselves of the Visa Waiver programme. This programme allows people to make short-term visits to the US without a visa. The chips would have included a variety of biological information about the passport holder, such as their fingerprints and retina scans.” http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/13/us_bio_passports/