Bhx-ema Pax
GF- my mild comments,now zapped(?)comparing the PAX I have shared FR flights with from BHX and EMA seems to have upset some posters especially Mike.
I suppose it is like comparing West Midlands/East Midlands football teams/beer/birds - someone takes it personally to defend their Region.
All airlines servicing the sea/sun destinations suffer from a minority of ill dressed or badly behaved PAX and my sympathy goes out to the FA's and ground staff who have to handle them
I am certainly no snob and maybe the "benefits" quote could have been worded differently (but see below) but there does seem to be a far higher proportion of large family groups in term time taking their children off school on the EMA/GRO flight than BHX.
Mike-please do not shoot the messenger but this is a posting I found on TripAdvisor.
I am sure the same scene could possibly be seen at other airports but it is EMA and FR that are quoted:-
“On a Ryanair flight to East Midlands we were appalled at antics of large family groups on the plane, most of them with kids that should be at school.
Overweight, dressed in a vest, shorts and giant trainers, covered in tattoos and piercings and that was the just the mother! She was surrounded by a tribe of sink estate brats in similar attire- it was like a horror movie and many on the plane were similar, no wonder the British are hated abroad.
I wonder whether it our taxes paying for their holidays?
To top it all off the baby, dressed just in a nappy, was put on the luggage carousel, for a ‘laugh’.
If this is typical of East Midlands and Ryanair we will fly with another airline and another airport”
The same comments were also posted on the Ryanair forum here but not zapped.
As I said-don't shoot the messenger