You do seem to have a magnetic attraction for negative attention, I wonder why?
Perhaps its because he, like I, have a very clear idea about what is
really going on, Faire d’income.
In understanding the current spike in anti Ryanair chatter, might I suggest first viewing it through the prism of IALPA’s recent
blistering defeat in the Supreme Court of Ireland.
The outcome of this case was long anticipated by the pilot unions and was to have represented the apotheosis of IALPA’s scurrilous attempt to thrash a negative consensus of sorts from the pilot corps at Ryanair, at apparently any cost. In arriving at this point in time, IALPA, BALPA and their dilettante ninny REPA have lied, intentionally misled, coerced and intimidated any individual within, or component part of Ryanair they see as fair game in their comprehensively failed attempt. Their bluff has been called and they don’t like it.
Ladies and Gentlemen, lets be perfectly clear. Since October 2004, the principal pilot unions in the Irish Republic and Great Britain have being doing their utmost to colonise Ryanair as a means of control. Ryanair’s commercial success represents a threat to the continued existence of dozens of heavily unionised carriers across Europe, all of which have been compelled to develop responsive strategies to answer the commercial threat we represent. Attempted unionisation of our pilot corps is merely an extension of this strategy by other means. In order to achieve this, however, the unions have singularly failed in the one area that matters to them most. They have failed to construct a persuasive narrative around the central theme that commercial pressures or management style may be responsible for a tarnished safety culture within Ryanair. They fail because their claim is demonstrably false.
Their nefarious plans have backfired badly and it is plain that these latest tabloid style attempts to point the finger of doubt at the Ryanair operation, along with a contemporary Leader article in Flight International and the journalistic interest it has quite understandably generated, as being, if not entirely then in very large part, related to IALPA’s last ditch, gloves off, attempt to justify their expensive existence and the orchestrated litany of lies they continue to employ in failing to make their case.
Ryanair is an organisation of 130 aircraft, 1500 pilots, and around 1000 flights every day of the year. Those figures are, I think, well worth reflecting upon. Like all organisations in our industry, every flight we do is underwritten by an open safety culture that is very nearly obsessive. Unlike other companies though, we make no secret of the fact that when we get it wrong, as all airlines do from time to time, we turn ourselves inside out trying to find out why so as to improve future performance.
Unfortunately, this openness is easily abused by those with a murky agenda as a stick to beat us with and you’re witnessing the latest manifestation of that now.
The LoCo business model is, more than any other, necessarily predicated on doing everything to prevent the development of a nexus between low fares and low standards in the collective psyche of our customer and no amount of failed union tantrum or tabloid journalism will change any part of that at Ryanair.
Journalists are supposed to be good at the temporal assessment of seemingly disparate events, Messers Shoesmith and Tighe. Lets hope so. As is the case with all media, be it the BBC, the Irish Times, Pprune or Flight International, published views have implicit powers of persuasion. I would caution, with the greatest of respect, that you both ensure your perceptions of Ryanair are not formulated, as is too often the case, by the regurgitation of falsely received wisdom.