Grow up both of you, as a Ryanair pilot has said DON'T take it out on the crews, they are the troops doing their best in a cut throat world
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Please do not take this out on the pilots! We are part of the orchestra but not the conductor!
Can I ask why making you fly your flight planned route is "taking it out on the pilots"? As we are, you are paid to do a job - I don't get to go home any earlier if I give everyone a direct route so why are you different?
By keeping you all on-route this afternoon we are "punishing" the people who buy the gas.
We are also all fed up with the poor planning by your flight ops dept who won't file plans on CDR's! but I've already ranted on that in a different thread.
BTW
According to NATSNET the technical failure that caused this press release was fixed by 06:30. The WestEnd sectors were the ones mainly affected. 56 RYR flights had filed to fly thru these sectors 27 of which suffered delays of, between 7 and 42 minutes.
29 RYR flights were not delayed at all by ATC!