You should all recognise, by now, if you study slim slag's responses to other posts, he/she is very anti "heritage" carriers and has a personal dislike of BA!
She states there is no difference between BA and FR! I suggest that there are a few very big differences!
In the event of delay or cancellation, BA will apply the rules under the EU compensdation Charter - FR will not! (So far, MOL is waiting to see the results of the EU appeal court hearing before he will pay anything!)
Speaking for BA, we never needed an "EU charter" as, broadly speaking, we have always provided accommodation / transport / refreshment for stranded passengers without needing any legislation to enforce it!
The other big difference is that BA has never deliberately set out to mislead its customers. FR's advertising has had to be stopped many times as misleading, dishonest or untruthful!
BA, by and large, treat staff fairly and reasonably. FR treat staff in an appalling fashion, relying on their desire to enter the aviation industry at all costs in order to whip them into shape! Where MoL can get away with it, he flouts both employment laws and aviation working procedures and this is well-documented - particularly among the Irish press.
BA have never deliberately compromised the safety of either its own passengers or those of other carriers. FR's pilots had to be rebuked for regularly claiming they had insufficient fuel in order to jump ahead in the queue for landing. This could have had serious implications for other airlines' passengers as well as their own by making CAA controllers believe that genuine low fuel situations were merely "crying wolf"!
Michael O Leary repeatedly challenges the Boeing Technical Manuals believing maintenance procedures can be short cut. Thankfully, he hasn't yet been permitted to amend any schedules but the mere fact that he challenges Boeing's authority, when by his own admission he knows nothing about aircraft and has no desire to know anything about them, shows he has the potential to be an unsafe operator!
If you read my postings, you will find I dislike Ryanair and I dislike EasyJet. The difference is that I would fly with EayJet, I would never set foot on a Ryanair aircraft!!!