In the new Pan Am series, Maggie Ryan, played by Christina Ricci, tells a passenger with wandering hands: "I am not included in the price of your ticket" (see video).

It appears though that Ryanair marketing executives did not see that Pan Am episode, as their latest advertising in two British newspapers caused the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) to ban the adverts for being sexist. The adverts feature female Ryanar air hostesses in their underwear and a message "Red hot fares & crew!!! One way from £9.99". Bidisha, British writer and broadcaster says: "as you can see from the charmingly retro ad [...] (setting it in the past makes it okay, as every sexist ad man knows), it looks as if the woman herself is being sold for a tenner".

Ryanair defended themselves saying that the ads were taken from their 2012 charity calendars (which already shocked the Swedish public). However, ASA said that although the women agreed to be portrayed in this way and the images were not overtly sexual in content, the pose of the women (especially the one pictured here, with the finger pulling her knickers down) was sexually suggestive and they ordered the Independent and the Daily Telegraph to remove the adverts.

A member of an airline cabin crew started off a "Ryanair: stop selling your staff" petition, saying: "We have come a long way from seeing women purely in a sexual way as opposed to a professional way.  No other profession would get away with depicting women in this way."

Flights from Amsterdam suffered major disruptions today, as Schiphol airport had to deal with a bomb threat.

Dutch Border Police evacuated two terminals, due to an unnamed man who locked himself in a toilet and claimed to have a bomb.

Rob van Kapel, a spokesman for the police, said the man has been arrested, but refused to say whether the man had explosives on him.

[ We are just wondering whether the man referred to explosives, when he said "I have a bomb" from his toilet seat?! ]

Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, one of the busiest in Europe, posted an official statement on their website: "Due to a bomb threat, earlier today Dutch Border Police has evacuated part of the terminal building for security reasons. A suspect has been detained. The part of the terminal that was evacuated has been opened. Flight delays and cancellations are expected throughout the rest of the day. We advise to consult flight information or the website of the airline."

Photo: Kevin Bryant

After Malev ceased all operations last week, many airlines are filling the hole left by the hungarian airline.

The number of airlines launching new routes from and to Budapest is quite big and includes all kind of airlines: Lufthansa, AirBerlin, Ryanair and WizzAir.

WhichBudget wants to give you a list of the new routes to Budapest:

Lufthansa routes:

• Berlin Tegel - Budapest
• Hamburg - Budapest

AirBerlin routes:

• Berlin Tegel - Budapest

Ryanair routes:

• Alicante - Budapest
• Baden-Baden - Budapest
• Barcelona - Budapest
• Birmingham - Budapest
• Bologna - Budapest
• Bristol - Budapest
• Brussels - Budapest
• Chania - Budapest
• Dublin - Budapest
• Eindhoven - Budapest
• Gothenburg - Budapest
• Hamburg - Budapest
• Krakow - Budapest
• London Stansted - Budapest
• Madrid - Budapest
• Malaga - Budapest
• Manchester - Budapest
• Memmingen - Budapest
• Milan Bergamo - Budapest
• Munich - Budapest
• Oslo - Budapest
• Palma - Budapest
• Paphos - Budapest
• Paris - Budapest
• Pisa - Budapest
• Rome Ciampino - Budapest
• Rhodes - Budapest
• Stockholm - Budapest
• Thessaloniki - Budapest
• Trapani - Budapest
• Venice Treviso - Budapest
• Warsaw - Budapest

Wizzair routes:

• Clui - Budapest
• Irakleion - Budapest
• Larnaca - Budapest
• Malaga - Budapest
• Rhodes - Budapest
• Sofia - Budapest
• Thessaloniki - Budapest
• Warsaw - Budapest
• Zakinthos - Budapest

Let us know of other airlines that added new routes from or to Budapest!

Wizz Air, the largest Central and East European low cost airline, announced this week it would move its entire Warsaw based operations to the soon to open Warsaw Modlin Airport. It also promised to invest HUF 25 billion in Budapest Airport, adding 700 new jobs, 2 additional aircraft and 2 million passengers per year.

Flights from Warsaw Modlin Airport will commence on the 18th July 2012. Wizz Air took the decision to move its Warsaw network and operational base from Chopin Airport to Warsaw Modlin, situated about 40 minute drive from the center of Warsaw, in order to reduce fares on the market.

Wizz Air offers customers direct connections to/from Warsaw to the following business and leisure destinations: Stavanger (new destination from Warsaw), London Luton, Brussels Charleroi, Stockholm Skavsta, Rome Fiumicino, Oslo Sandefjord Torp, Milan Bergamo, Paris Beauvais, Barcelona, Eindhoven, Gothenburg, Liverpool, Malmo, Doncaster Sheffield, Forli Bologna, Madrid, Glasgow Prestwick, Cork, Bourgas.

Customers who have already booked flights scheduled to depart from Warsaw Chopin Airport on or after 18 July 2012 will be contacted directly about the change.

"Wizz Air is pleased to reduce fares for passengers flying to/from the new Warsaw Modlin Airport. We are confident that customers will welcome the cost-savings we can now provide and follow us in our move,” said John Stephenson, Executive Vice President, Wizz Air.

Following the collapse of Málev, the Hungarian national airline, earlier this week Wizz Air announced that it would invest HUF 25 billion (USD 100 million) into expanding its operations in Budapest.

As of March 2012, the airline will add two Airbus A320 aircraft to its Budapest base, a 66% increase in overall capacity.

Wizz Air will launch new flights from Budapest to Bucharest Baneasa and increase frequencies on several existing routes. The number of available flights per week will nearly double from 67 to 129: Bucharest, London Luton, Brussels Charleroi, Eindhoven, Milan Bergamo, Rome, Barcelona, Malmo, Madrid, Stockholm Skavsta, Bourgas, Bari, Dortmund, Gothenburg, Tirgu Mures, Frankfurt Hahn, Naples, Bologna Forli, Turku, Catania, Pisa, Palma de Mallorca, Corfu, Antalya.

"Wizz Air remains highly committed to Hungary, our homeland. We have been growing year-on-year since the start of operation in 2004. We will continue to meet the increase in consumer demand and continue to offer new jobs in Budapest" - said József Váradi, Chief Executive Officer of Wizz Air.