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City of Copenhagen dumps Ryanair stock

City officials said this week that the decision to ban all future investments Ryanair left them with "a clear conscience" in the wake of Danish unions successfully chasing the Irish airline out of Denmark.

City of Copenhagen dumps Ryanair stock
Ryanair closed both of its Danish bases last month. Photo: Josep Lago/Scanpix
After it was revealed in June that the City of Copenhagen owned stock in Ryanair at the same time that Mayor Frank Jensen and Danish unions were in a high-profile battle with the budget airline, city officials vowed to dump the stock as soon as possible. 
 
This week, the city council made good on those promises and voted to stop all present and future investments in Ryanair, despite the airline’s stock having risen 19 percent since January. 
 
“The working conditions that Ryanair offers are inconsistent with the values we have in the City of Copenhagen,” council member Lars Aslan Rasmussen told broadcaster DR. 
 
The decision to stop investments in Ryanair was supported by the Social Democrats, the Socialist People’s Party, the Social Liberals (Radikale) and the Danish People’s Party but opposed by Venstre, the Conservatives and Liberal Alliance. 
 
Rasmussen said that despite the stock’s increase, he felt good about the decision.
 
“We have a clear conscience now that we don’t have anything to do with social dumping via Ryanair,” he said. 
 
Ryanair last month decided to close its bases at Billund and Copenhagen Airports after a decision by the Danish Labour Court (Arbejdsretten) cleared the way for a legal strike against the company. 
 
In addition to the ongoing conflict with Danish unions, Ryanair also engaged Copenhagen’s mayor, Frank Jensen, in a public war of words over Twitter after Jensen banned the city’s 45,000 employees from flying with the airline on official business.
  

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UPDATE: Ryanair passenger jet makes emergency landing in Berlin over ‘fake bomb threat’

Polish police said Monday they were investigating a fake bomb threat that forced a Ryanair passenger plane travelling from Dublin to Krakow to make an emergency landing in Berlin.

UPDATE: Ryanair passenger jet makes emergency landing in Berlin over 'fake bomb threat'
A Ryanair flight making an emergency landing

The flight from Dublin to Krakow made the unexpected diversion after a reported bomb threat, German newspaper Bild Zeitung said.

“We were notified by the Krakow airport that an airport employee received a phone call saying an explosive device had been planted on the plane,” said regional police spokesman, Sebastian Glen.

“German police checked and there was no device, no bomb threat at all. So we know this was a false alarm,” he told AFP on Monday.

“The perpetrator has not been detained, but we are doing everything possible to establish their identity,” Glen added, saying the person faces eight years in prison.

With 160 people on board, the flight arrived at the Berlin Brandenburg airport shortly after 8 pm Sunday, remaining on the tarmac into early Monday morning.

A Berlin police spokesperson said that officers had completed their security checks “without any danger being detected”.

“The passengers will resume their journey to Poland on board a spare aeroplane,” she told AFP, without giving more precise details for the alert.

The flight was emptied with the baggage also searched and checked with sniffer dogs, German media reported.

The passengers were not able to continue their journey until early Monday morning shortly before 4:00 am. The federal police had previously classified the situation as harmless. The Brandenburg police are now investigating the case.

Police said that officers had completed their security checks “without any danger being detected”.

“The Ryanair plane that made an emergency landed reported an air emergency and was therefore immediately given a landing permit at BER,” airport spokesman Jan-Peter Haack told Bild.

“The aircraft is currently in a safe position,” a spokeswoman for the police told the newspaper.

The incident comes a week after a Ryanair flight was forced to divert to Belarus, with a passenger — a dissident journalist — arrested on arrival.

And in July last year, another Ryanair plane from Dublin to Krakow was forced to make an emergency landing in London after a false bomb threat.

READ ALSO: Germany summons Belarus envoy over forced Ryanair landing

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