Blow for Ryanair takeover bid
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Aer Lingus employees reject a takeover approach from Ryanair dealing a new blow to the no-frills airlines plans.
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Qantas Airways, the Australian carrier, rejected an $8.6 billion takeover bid led by Macquarie Bank of Australia and the American equity firm, the Texas Pacific Group. Qantas said it had received a nonbinding proposal, but that the terms were ânot acceptable.â Qantas confirmed in November that it received a takeover proposal from Macquarie Bank and Texas Pacific.
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JP McManus and John Magnier, the Irish racehorse owners, are to reject Malcolm Glazer&#39;s 300p per share offer for their 29.9 per cent stake in Manchester United.
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Australian airline Qantas rejects a controversial $8.6bn takeover deal led by Australian bank Macquarie.
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Singapore Airlines' offer to buy a stake in China Eastern Airlines is rejected by a   shareholders' vote.
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Spanish bank Santander Central Hispano would drop an eight billion pound-plus offer for Abbey National if rival bids result in a drawn-out competition investigation, the Sunday Telegraph reports.
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Budget airline Ryanair signs a deal to buy 27 planes from Boeing worth a possible $1.9bn (Â£960m).
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Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary says that the EU would be unlawful to halt a bid for Ireland's Aer Lingus.
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Australia's Qantas Airways Ltd.   rejected on Wednesday a conditional A$10.9 billion  ($8.6 billion) buyout offer led by Macquarie Bank Ltd.   and private equity firm Texas Pacific Group .
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Irish budget airline Ryanair has said that shareholders owning 0.9 percent of rival Irish airline Aer Lingus had accepted its takeover offer.
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Ryanair extends the deadline for its proposed takeover of Aer Lingus after fewer than 1% of shareholders sign up.
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Ryanair Holdings PLC, Europe's largest discount airline, launched a takeover bid Thursday for its Irish rival, Aer Lingus Group PLC, in a deal that would value the formerly state-owned carrier at 1.48 billion euros ($1.88 billion).
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Michael O'Leary, Ryanair Holdings PLC's combative chief executive, criticized the directors of rival Irish airline Aer Lingus and ruled out raising his takeover offer Tuesday in a letter to the shareholders of the recently privatized airline.
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Budget airline Ryanair launches a 1.48bn euros (Â£1bn) bid to buy Irish carrier Aer Lingus.
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Irish low-cost airline Ryanair warned on Monday that its profits could be slashed next year after reporting a 27-percent plunge in third-quarter earnings owing to rising fuel prices.
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Australian flag carrier Qantas Airways said it had rejected a multi-billion-dollar takeover bid from a private equity consortium.
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BUDGET airline Ryanair will fail to make a profit this winter as its aircraft fuel bill soars by as much as 50% after it admitted it had not taken action against the spiralling oil price.