Tea coffee or me. I've seen some daft posts on this site and yours ranks among them.
It has nothing to do with low cost airlines or Big Airways aside, If you catch a hail storm by surprise, you're in it like it or not and if your on approach you cant just throttle out and get away. Landing 55 tons on decent and pulling away in hail would be like turning the QE2 round in the Manchester Chip Canal, with the wieght and inertia.
I took off on the jump seat many years ago from an island called Mitalinni and as we rounded the mountain of departure hit this hail storm head on and the golfballs were stacking up on the F/o's screen. It was one of those moments and it happens, plane damaged but made it home. Did we do anything wrong, No right place, wrong time.
That was with a full service charter airline.
To say that low costs would do it intentionally is demeaning and crass to say the least and one day you maybe pushing your trolley down the aisle of one, you never know!
Don't be so snooty please, BA are just as bad as the rest, I know I've worked for them and repaired the damage that results. |