N40PF easy tiger get your facts right mate. None of us would be in this position if EASA hadn't moved the goal posts.
Its EASA that made life hard not Ryanair. Any TRE pre EASA could pretty much sign any licence in Europe. Then EASA rolls into town and says they have to do a course for every country licence they want to sign. Why? Have they all become worse TREs all of a sudden. A Belgian, Danish, Italian licence that they signed 24hrs previous that is exactly the same piece of paper apart the EASA title they now cant sign.
Try running an airline where all the pilots have different licences from every state in EASA and every TRE has to have an authorisation to sign every one from every country.
If you want to have a rant have a rant about EASA not Ryanair.
We all know Ryanair is an easy target but you need to redirect your 9mm.
Ps Ryanair did accept every european licence pre EASA without the need for any conversation to the IAA