FR bashing? Xenophobic? Not a bit of it. This is about lies on crucial safety matters fron the very top level of a national aviation authority and one of the largest airlines in Europe. It direcly affects the central credibility of both.
1) Ryanair held its pilots to duty hours based on an IAA exemption which they clearly stated that they had.
2) The IAA denied existance of this document, and confirmed that any individual - not company - caught at this would be punished (But only AFTER an incident, mind you...) Now that's an impressive attitude to responsible enforcement, isn't it?
So who was lying - clearly at least one of the two was.
3) IAA stonewalled a high-level BALPA enquiry and then made a ridiculously inept attempt to bluster their way out of the hole they had dug for themselves and Ryanair, thus firmly attaching them both in the lie.
Is that or is that not official collusion. Corruption is another name for it, and it STINKS.
Now this finally has come out as a third party generated statement isn't it about time other Aviation Authorities started to deal actively and thoroughly with cheats and liars like these?
ps.
perhaps there never was a document, do you think this was yet another of the IAAs notorious "verbal exemptions" and FR (or rather their poor, misinformed individual pilots) discovered just how much back-up they'd get when it finally became public knowledge?
Still, chilling to think how many more of these cancers there may still be lurking just under the surface, never to be known of until "after the incident". Scary.
Last edited by the boy John; 3rd Jan 2003 at 18:58.