6 h. ago easyJet hit by ‘unexpected and significant costs’ from French air

Headline profit at Britain's biggest budget airline rose by £50m in April-June

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18 h. ago Budget airline that took ICE deportation flight contract shuts down West Coast operations

Avelo Airlines, which sparked controversy and boycotts of its service earlier this year over the agreement, will end flights in California, Oregon, Washington and Montana

Politics

20 h. ago 'We never cared': Estelle shuts down Adele ‘feud’, talks Kanye West, fame and fear on the bus

The Grammy-winning artist tells the Standard: ‘I think people made more of it than it was’

Transport

21 h. ago Judge will consider releasing Kilmar Ábrego García from jail, which may allow second deportation

Lawyers for Trump’s justice department have said Maryland man will be detained if he is freedA federal judge in Tennessee could rule on Wednesday on whether to release Kilmar Ábrego García from jail to await trial on human smuggling charges, a decision that could allow Donald Trump’s administration to try to deport the Maryland construction worker for a second time.Lawyers for the justice department have said US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) will detain Ábrego García if he is freed. Ice officials have said they will initiate deportation proceedings against the Salvadorian national and will possibly try to send him to a third country such as Mexico or South Sudan. Continue reading...

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29 h. ago 'I was turned away by easyJet at gate over my passport and just assumed they were right'

Woman's 50th birthday holiday break from Glasgow was ruined - and she then found out budget airline had got post Brexit rules wrong

Politics

43 h. ago ICE can expedite deportations to ‘third countries’ with as little as six hours’ notice, memo says

Immigrants don’t have enough time to challenge their removal to countries where they could face violence, lawyers warn

Politics

69 h. ago EasyJet staff get Brexit passport rules wrong again and wreck family’s birthday trip to Paris

Exclusive: Britain’s biggest budget airline continues to play ‘passport roulette’ with passengers, denying a family a 50th-birthday weekend

Politics

5 d. ago Ryanair passenger orders breakfast on flight and the bill leaves him floored

A Youtuber who was determined to fly with Ryanair to see if it was as "bad" as people say was left shocked when he saw the price of the budget airline's breakfast items

Politics

6 d. ago Inside the ICE offices where morale is ‘miserable’ and the deportation push has become ‘mission impossible’

‘Morale is in the crapper,’ one former agent said

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6 d. ago ICE is now hunting for clergy members willing to work in Guantánamo Bay

Exclusive: The chaplain will earn between $28 and $32 an hour and will minister to ‘major Christian denominations,’ as well as ‘Islam, Hinduism, Rastafarian, Judaism, etc,’ according to an ICE solicitation reviewed by The Independent

Politics

6 d. ago Joe Rogan ‘pushed Trump to back off on mass deportations’ at a dinner before slamming him over ICE raids

Podcast host, whose endorsement is credited with helping Trump secure the presidency, reportedly dined with him and UFC boss Dana White on June 30

Politics

7 d. ago Trump wants 10,000 more deportation agents. Experts say it’s an impossible goal — and dangerous

The administration hopes an historic injection of taxpayer cash can fix hiring challenges for an agency facing intense political and legal scrutiny, Alex Woodward reports

Politics

8 d. ago Anyone flying budget airlines this summer given new update on baggage size checks

Industry expert says airlines will be cracking down - and people should get evidence bag is right size

Politics

9 d. ago Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary’s most outrageous quotes as the company turns 40

Ryanair might be a divisive brand, but there’s one thing we can all agree on. The budget airline’s boss Michael O’Leary has said some hilarious – and hilariously awful – things

Politics

9 d. ago Frustrated judge blasts Trump team over deportation plans for Kilmar Abrego Garcia: ‘Like trying to nail Jell

ICE plans to arrest and deport the Salvadoran dad, again, if he’s released from pretrial detention in criminal case

Politics

1 week ago ‘The lawsuit was my life. Of course I’m writing about it’: Hard Life – formerly Easy Life – on being sued by easyGroup and starting afresh

When the Leicester band were forced to drop their old name after a legal threats from a certain budget airline, it could have been curtains. But frontman Murray Matravers’s trip to Japan has prompted a bold new outlook – and an upbeat new albumWhen writing songs, “95% of the time” Murray Matravers starts with the title. It’s a tactic he picked up from Gary Barlow: a producer once told him the Take That man tends to arrive at sessions touting a load of prospective song titles “cut out on little pieces of paper, and he’d put them on the table and you could just choose one. I was like: that’s fucking brilliant. Ever since I’ve always had loads of titles in my Notes app. It actually changed the way I wrote music,” he says with genuine enthusiasm. “Shout out to Gary Barlow!”Names are clearly very important to the 29-year-old – but in recent years they have also caused him untold stress. By 2023, Matravers’ band Easy Life was thriving, having s...

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1 week ago Tens of thousands of passengers face another day of travel hell amid French air traffic control strikes... as chaos hits Eurostar and UK airports

Budget airline Ryanair has slashed more than 160 flights because of French air traffic control strikes, affecting over 30,000 passengers.

Events

1 week ago Julio Cesar Chavez Jr arrested by Ice amid organised crime charges days after losing to Jake Paul

Federal officials say Chavez Jr will be deported back to Mexico where he faces organised crime charges

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1 week ago Boxer Julio César Chávez Jr arrested by Ice over alleged cartel ties

Boxer Chávez Jr arrested by Ice in Los AngelesDHS flagged him as threat but let him re-enter USLinked to Sinaloa cartel and faces deportationImmigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) has arrested Mexican boxer Julio César Chávez Jr in California and begun proceedings to deport him, citing cartel affiliations, multiple criminal convictions and an active arrest warrant in Mexico for weapons trafficking and organized crime.Chávez Jr, 39, the son of the legendary world champion Julio César Chávez Sr, was taken into custody by Ice agents on Tuesday in Studio City, a Los Angeles neighborhood known for celebrity residences. According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), he had been living in the US unlawfully and posed a significant threat to public safety. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Former world champion Julio César Chávez Jr arrested by Ice over alleged cartel ties

Chávez Jr arrested by Ice in Los AngelesDHS flagged him as threat but let him re-enter USLinked to Sinaloa cartel and faces deportationImmigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) has arrested the Mexican boxer Julio César Chávez Jr in California and begun proceedings to deport him, citing cartel affiliations, multiple criminal convictions and an active arrest warrant in Mexico for weapons trafficking and organized crime.Chávez Jr, 39, the son of the legendary world champion Julio César Chávez Sr, was taken into custody by Ice agents on Tuesday in Studio City, a Los Angeles neighborhood known for celebrity residences. According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), he had been living in the US unlawfully and posed a significant threat to public safety. Continue reading...

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