Ryanair

[Dickon]

Airline pilots have accused Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary of endangering the safety of passengers with a call to do away with the second pilot on the flight deck of aircraft to save money.

Mr O'Leary claims the second pilot serves no purpose and could be replaced by a stewardesses trained to land planes in an emergency.

http://news.uk.msn.com/uk/articles.aspx ... =154583124

[Mayfly]

The master of publicity!!!

[Xplumberlives]

When will people realise!

[Lucas1860]

Shower od sh........muck

[Sickbag_andy]

may be he should just ask you to indicate if you have any flying experience when you book and if so offer a free or discounted seat on the flight deck. I've flown gliders and a cessna so next time I'm going to Italy I could sit there and save the day if necessary.

A simple tick box on the booking page would suffice - if you're the first to tick it for that particular flight you get the freebie. ( but you might still have to pay the taxes and credit card fee!)

[AirEngland]

What are these screams i hear? OHH!! It's Ryanair coming down with a BANG. I think the sooner Ryanair shoot themselves in the foot the better. I've flown on them a few times (not by choice) and they were always late, the crews were so rude and the aircraft were so dirty it was beyond unhygenic.

I can see it now on an easyJet A319 BYE BYE RYANAIR Oh how i wish.

[Stigish]

Well if Derrin Brown can get someone to do it with no flying hours, why not!

Bloody budget airlines cutting costs & corners will never end, until at least they all go bust anyway..........That reminds me, they stop flights from bournemouth in November, best get my tickets quick

[Xplumberlives]

Ryanair will probably be one of the very last budget airlines to fold, they do what it says on the tin!

If you don't like it, don't use them!

[Dougs]

Ryanair will probably be one of the very last budget airlines to fold, they do what it says on the tin!

If you don't like it, don't use them!

unfortunately don't get the choice i HAVE to fly with this shower of ...t because of work i would not use them for myself would rather walk!!!! i regally flip at the travel coordinator i i find there is an alternative that we did not use especially as they are not cheap when you have tools and baggage to carry. just wish that another budget carrier would out do them and send them to a distant memory.

[Sickbag_andy]

I use them regularly to visit my daughter in Italy, last time yesterday evening. I don't have a problem with them at all, the problem lies with people who buy a flight for a fiver and expect the same service as on a normal carrier where you would pay £100+ for the same journey. My return flight this time cost me less than £40 including taxes and booking fee and it makes visiting my daughter and grandson regularly affordable.
The staff are courteous in fact I think they have made an effort to improve their image over the last 2 years or so, sometimes by the end of the day there imght be a bit of litter that they've missed but that is as much down to lazy passengers being aerial litter bugs as the staff not picking it up, - yesterday they spent the last 20 minutes going up and down asking for all rubbish to be put in their bin liners so there was really no excuse for throwing it on the floor.
And yes. they do charge £20 or £30 for a bag in the hold thats why I always take just hand baggage - if you want to carry loads then afraid you should pay for it, not expect somebody else to apy part of it for you as part of a blanket add on , back in February I got diverted to Rimini due to snow and they had coaches there ready to take us to Bologna within the hour so they did as well as anybody would have done in my view and on the trip I sat next to a pilot who had been on the flight to position to BLQ for his sectors and he was expalining that for handling hold baggage they have to hire extra ground crew which all has to be paid for and soetimes there might only be six or 10 bags on the flight so they prefer to charge those with the bags rather than push the price of everybody's flight up. Suits me perfectly, I'm happy to accept that I have to pay if on any occasion I do want to put my bag in the hold.
Yes he is an opportunist with publicity but it works well so why not milk it to his advantage - just good business.
Last xmas my daughter flew home with hubby and 6 ninths of grandson and used BA to Gatwick ( and I had to go there to do the pick up, but until a few days beforehand BA were threatening a strike (and have done so several times this year) at least Ryanair don't seem to have the same union problems so less worry on that front as well.
They do the job, do it cheaply and I find they are always on time or very close to it although they do seem to builsd a bit of slack into their flight times - we were stuck on ground at Stansted for 1/2 due to ATC restrictions when I flew out but still made up most of the time and arrived only 5 minutes late. Last night I arrived 20 minutes early at Stansted, all in all I think they provide an acceptable standard of service for a short haul flight, as XPL says they do what is says on the tin.