Ryanair

Budget airline Ryanair is to force passengers travelling with young children to pay a £4 seat reservation fee on any flights booked after 1 September, in the latest development in the ongoing row over whether parents should be able to sit next to their kids on flights for free.

The crisis in Turkey means tens of thousands of holidaymakers have had their travel plans thrown into chaos just as the peak holiday season is set to kick off.

Additional fees charged by airlines for checked-in baggage, airport check-ins and other extras will be reviewed by the regulator to see if they're unfair on passengers.

No-frills airline Ryanair will simplify its fees for checked baggage in June this year as it pilots a fleet of new customer-experience initiatives – with the flat-rate fee likely to be around £30 each way.

Passengers flying with Ryanair will soon be able to get a legally-binding decision on gripes such as flight delay and cancellation claims, as the budget airline has become the first to sign up to the Ombudsman Services' airline complaints arbitration scheme.

Ryanair faces legal action after the UK's aviation regulator has found it's been wrongly rejecting flight delay and cancellation claims.

Passengers have won against Ryanair, after a judge today ruled in a test case that they are entitled to claim compensation for flight disruption, which happened more than two years ago.

Passengers have today taken Ryanair to court for tying to wriggle out of paying compensation for flight delays that happened more than two years ago. If a decision goes in their favour, it may make it easier for others to claim too.

Ryanair tried to seat a three-year-old away from her horrified parents on a flight from Portugal to Liverpool. The budget airline is one of at least five that operates a 'family tax', where the only way to guarantee parents and their children are seated together is to pay for allocated seating.

MoneySavingExpert.com is demanding that budget airlines scrap a 'family tax' that pushes worried parents to fork out an extra £15 each per flight just to guarantee they can sit next to their children.