Dutch TV reports on 'Ryanair pilots denominated alarm over safety'

[Zipster]

That would mean you are the exception to the rule more or less, but good for you personally skyflyer. So many different circumstances for a large company so good seeing it works out for some.

Lots of people though having contracts of employment especially in Italy at the moment are facing very different circumstances where there is a real possibility they could owe social tax they had no reason to believe they were not compliant with in the first place. Contractors are possibly next, other countries to follow suit most likely. There is another thread about this so i wont go into more detail of that situation.

So back to the KRO show for a second, from my understanding after watching both episodes the core issue was not the fuel emergencies, but instead the core issue was the way Ryanair conducts its business and the corporate culture in place leading to a overall degradation of flight safety. With fuel emergencies being one result of that culture. The social tax situation and the weak contracts being offered is another example (since the two are closely related) of this culture which brings us back to the situation in Italy once again.

In Italy there are pilots and cabincrew flying aircraft as we speak that has just found out he or she owes social tax backdated all the way from 2006 when they have just following what was setout in their respective contracts. This is clearly disgraceful for anyone with some common sense. So we now see that the constant cost cutting has now backfired so badly staff are now in the firing line unknowingly they were not compliant in the first place and will take the hit personally. IŽll let anyone decide for themselves what this could mean towards flight safety but this could be one thing to add and possibly clarify what these guys in the show mean also.

Ryanair constantly says safety is on par with the best in Europe, using fatalities or hull losses as the metric for that statement then this is possibly true.

But lets face it flight safety is not all about fatalities or hull losses, flight safety is also about taking care of the people working for you in sensitive roles such as flight and cabin crew and ensure you donŽt put them in situations where you basically screw them over potentially just to get an edge over the competition.