METRO Friday, September 11, 2009 D 2009 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 2006 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 2009 Layout and Design Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved. ON BLU-RAY & DVD NOW The lucky winners of the new Monopoly City game were: Lara McManus, Trisha McLaughlin, Chris Farrell, Mark Dunnachie, Chris Economides, Tiffiny Quinn, Kate Duffy, Tim OConnor, Helen Pender and Laura Reynolds metr-opoly city MENU tHe Home Digest 4 Guilty Pleasures Celebrity gossip 6 World Digest 10 MetroLife Arts and entertainment 18-19 60 Second Interview Nicky Hambleton-Jones 20 TV 20-21 Puzzles & Letters 22-23 Classifieds 24 Sport 25-28 Help keep Dublin clean and tidy for everyone by taking your Metro with you and recycling it sticky fingers By PETER WOODMAN ryanair 4th in world for extra fees Jacko tribute no-showIT WAS supposed to be a thriller. Now it just looks bad. Jermaine Jackson (pictured) promised some of the planets biggest stars would take to the stage in Vienna for what was billed as a major global tribute to Michael Jackson on September 26. So far, though, he hasnt delivered any top acts. Two of the supposedly confirmed headliners, Mary J. Blige and Chris Brown, apparently cant now make the slot. That leaves a smattering of B-list artists such as Sister Sledge, Akon and German boy band US5 to entertain fans who paid up to 512 each for VIP seats at the outdoor gig. Macklin Coakley and Aryana Neiland, both seven, with Freeman Martin, eight, helped launch the Unicef/Topaz Create-a-Card Make a Difference art competition in which the best Christmas cards made by school pupils will be sold at Topaz stores across Ireland NO-FRILLS airline Ryanair took al- most 620million in extra charges such as baggage fees last year, it was dis- closed yesterday. This put the Irish budget carrier into fourth place in a list for world airline ancillary revenue last year. Ancillary revenue includes not only baggage charges but also such things as in-flight food and the commission air- lines make on hotel bookings, car rental and insurance. According to American research group IdeaWorks, Ryanairs ancillary revenue last year accounted for 19.3 per cent of its total revenue. Only three giant US carriers Ameri- can Airlines, United and Delta had more ancillary revenue last year than Ryanair, which has just announced a 50 per cent baggage fee increase to take ef- fect from next month. A spokesman for IdeaWorks said: The sickly patient known as the worlds air- line industry suffered through 2008 and only survived due to dramatic schedule cutbacks, the slow reversal of fuel prices and an intravenous injection of ancillary revenue. James Fremantle of airline watchdog the Air Transport Users Council said: There has to be a limit to the charges that the low-cost carriers are dreaming up to impose on consumers. Families and the elderly will find it much harder to avoid them. Passengers need to make careful choices and compare prices with airlines that do not add these charges. But Ryanairs Stephen McNamara in- sisted: Ryanair provides passengers with Europes guaranteed lowest fares by providing a range of ancillary revenue services such as hotel, villa, camping and hostel accommodation, travel insur- ance, bus and rail tickets, car hire, gift vouchers, financial services and in-flight telephone services as well as in-flight beverages, food and merchandising. Mr McNamara continued: Ryanair is not simply an airline. It is the Tesco of the skies. It delivers Europes lowest fares as a result of these services and we hope that by continuing to build on the success of these services, in particular accommodation and car hire, Ryanair will continue to deliver passengers Eu- ropes lowest fares. TODAy: Warming up after the chilly start, with fog clearing. Uninterrupted sunshine. Max: 17C TOMORROW: Settled conditions. Sunny spells, dry, variable cloud and light winds. Max: 17C METRO Weather index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html24.html25.html26.html27.html