Strange Goings-On At Madrid
Can anyone explain the following? Recently, leaving Madrid, passengers descended the stairs from the gate and boarded a bus, only to be transported a matter of yards to the aircraft. They could have walked to it in a fraction of the time.
I can't see Ryanair forking out for the unnecessary expense of this ridiculous coaching operation, so I assume that for some reason the airbridge was inoperative and AENA, the airport operator, has a rule which prohibits passengers walking on the tarmac to the aircraft.
P.S. I understand that Ryanair management reversed its decision to increase the charge for purchasing Priority Boarding at the gate area at Stansted (and elsewhere?) from £4 to £8 partly as a result of pressure from staff who have to sell it. (I assume, too, that these sales plummeted!)
Many thanks for the interesting comments on yield management.