south coast: It seems clear to me that Ryanair operate outside the Spirit of the law in regard to tax and employment. This is due to European deregulated airspace being in it's youth and Joint European law being slow to catch up. There is however no excuse for a company of Ryanair's size to exploit holes in the law. Other companies take pride in saying that they not only operate within the law but also in the spirit of the law.
The Law of all European states allows for employees to be anonymously balloted on the membership of a Union. Ryanair have successfully manipulated the disjointed European systems to unfairly prevent this from happening.
Ryanair cry foul when they feel that they are treated unfairly by a television program but they fail to play by fair rules themselves.
Given these above abuses it should be considered reasonable to at least question their level of safety and how transparent their reporting is, Particularly if a third of their Pilots are calling for an independent enquiry.