Another Ryanair story
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(From a letter in the Guardian, Sep 6)
3 school students travelling to a music course in Italy had each paid in advance the £80 fee to check their violins into the hold. They had no other hand luggage.
At checkin, Ryanair asked them to pay £300 each to buy seats for their instruments.
Eventually they were permitted to check their violin cases into the hold and carry their violins, worth thousands of pounds, unprotected on their laps.
Meanwhile the lockers above their seats were completely empty.
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14 years
They do have some crazy ideas at times but I still say Ryanair is the best thing that happened to the sky's and I wish they would come to Oz.
14 years
Here's some more Ryanair news that has been sitting in my browser tabs:
O’Leary brands climate change as “horse *#*!”
In the same week that he called for replacing co-pilots with air stewardesses, Ryanair boss Micheal O’Leary has sparked further controversy by denying the existence of man-made climate change.
The controversial millionaire said the idea that man-made pollution is heating up the planet is "horse *#*!".
..."The scientific community has nearly always been wrong in history anyway. In the Middle Ages, they were going to excommunicate Galileo because the entire scientific community said the Earth was flat..."
Ryanair’s O’Leary Calls for Single-Pilot Commercial Flights
Ryanair’s controversial chief executive Michael O’Leary wants to eliminate copilots in his Boeing 737 jets.
14 years
I split this thread and moved the other posts to the Off-topic Chat area here:
http://www.hostelmanagement.com/forums/climate-change.html (login required, if you're not already logged in)
14 years
Ryanair pilot responds to this idea:
In a highly unusual intervention, Captain Morgan Fischer has publicly called for Mr O'Leary to be replaced by the lowest paid member of the airline's cabin crew.
Capt Fischer, who trains flight crew at the carrier’s base in Marseilles, said that replacing Mr O’Leary – who earns almost £700,000 a year and is one of Ireland’s richest men – would save the company millions.
...He went on to joke that such a move could even generate cash for the airline by charging the new chief executive just over £2,000 to retrain - the figure he said new cabin crew recruits have to pay for their own training.
Ryanair insisted the remarks had been taken in good humour and no action would be taken against Capt Fischer.
14 years
BTW: historical facts: Galileo's controverse was NOT about flatness of earth but about what revolves around what; it was NOT in the Middle Ages but during Renaissance; he was NOT excommunicated (but nearly !)
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