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Old 9th Nov 2012, 08:34
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Don't worry air doris, this is normal publicity-seeking behaviour from MO'L, ejaculating sound bites into the atmosphere, hoping to impregnate the minds of the general public with the Ryanair brand. And he is incredibly successful at so doing. Whatever is said here on Pprune, the passenger numbers suggest more people are happy to fly with Ryanair than any other European airline.

Funkydreadlocks, you are too young to remember the old days, say 15 years ago, when your flight from Edinburgh to Malaga would have cost you £300 and would have been scheduled for one day per week. Yes, you would have been served a sandwich and the hostess would have said 'Sir' but as you say, you couldn't afford those prices anyway - so you wouldn't make the flight anyway. Oh, and Ryanair do move people to emergency exit flights if nobody buys the seats. Sometimes the cabin crew are a bit sour-faced but they work under massive stress and most are quite jolly!

Meccano. Forgive me, but you are offensive and wide of the mark if you think that pilots who fly for Ryanair are unprofessional. They come from similar backgrounds to other pilots, do the same flight training, pass the same ATPL exams, do as much recurrent training as everyone else to standards admired within the training industry, and despite MO'L's attempts to denigrate their profession continue to perform in a demanding commercial environment. Many pilots at major legacy carriers started with Ryanair.

Don't confuse the public face of Ryanair with the attitude of its pilots. We are all embarrassed by MO'L but it is water off a duck's back to us.

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