Further to previous posts, here's one little topical example of "lies, damn lies and Ryanair statistics":
A friend of ours was due to arrive in Dublin from EMA early this morning on FR535. She got in touch to say the flight was delayed for 8 hours
.
This is confirmed by
the EMA airport website. I'm sure this will be updated, but as of now - about noon on the day in question - it says:
FR535 Dublin 06:35 Delayed to 15:20
Similarly, the Dublin airport website currently says
East Midlands Ryanair FR535 20-04-2007 07:35 Delayed 1620
However, if I go to "flight information" on the Ryanair website (
today's EMA-DUB flights here) I find that magically the flight was "on time".
So somehow I find it hard to place any credence at all in the "90% of flights on time last week" figure in large print higher up that same page...