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I wonder how long the PR department at FR can handle the backlash.
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After a recent LBA-AGP sector I observed:
When I travel alone I only care that I don't get stuck in the middle seat. Now I don't even have to bother to pay - I'll just wait until the day of the flight to check in and ensure those are already assigned.
But hey, let's just pretend nothing has changed and customers are just cheap complaining b******s.
Ignore the evidence to the contrary, they're clearly getting so much better - the TripAdvisor thread proves how delighted people are with the latest customer service improvement.
- Families who were split apart all boarded together via the front door, even if some were sat at the back, so they had to push through the aircraft and delay other PAX. Also a very long queue at the front door.
- Two stag parties were a lot quieter than normal (not that I'm one to complain about that!) owing to the fact their party was split across the aircraft and not together.
- Many people changing seats after boarding completed and swapping thereby delaying our already delayed departure. Crew powerless to do anything - what are they going to do - say no?
- Sat next to a Spanish guy who was head of his family who had been split across the aircraft. One comment he kept repeating throughout the flight: no repetir - never again.
When I travel alone I only care that I don't get stuck in the middle seat. Now I don't even have to bother to pay - I'll just wait until the day of the flight to check in and ensure those are already assigned.
But hey, let's just pretend nothing has changed and customers are just cheap complaining b******s.
Ignore the evidence to the contrary, they're clearly getting so much better - the TripAdvisor thread proves how delighted people are with the latest customer service improvement.


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Two stag parties were a lot quieter than normal (not that I'm one to complain about that!) owing to the fact their party was split across the aircraft and not together.

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O'Leary has told the EU parliament he hopes Brexit fails.
I have never been a fan of Ryanair's product, but I will now ensure I never fly with them again.
Perhaps when the UK leaves the appalling EU, we will start standing up for UK businesses, not those registered in foreign tax havens.
I have never been a fan of Ryanair's product, but I will now ensure I never fly with them again.
Perhaps when the UK leaves the appalling EU, we will start standing up for UK businesses, not those registered in foreign tax havens.

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O'Leary has told the EU parliament he hopes Brexit fails.
I have never been a fan of Ryanair's product, but I will now ensure I never fly with them again.
Perhaps when the UK leaves the appalling EU, we will start standing up for UK businesses, not those registered in foreign tax havens.
I have never been a fan of Ryanair's product, but I will now ensure I never fly with them again.
Perhaps when the UK leaves the appalling EU, we will start standing up for UK businesses, not those registered in foreign tax havens.

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Always useful to give some context - this is what he really said:
"“The sensible outcome here is to ignore the plebiscite of 12 months ago, stay in Europe and continue to benefit from Open Skies.”
This as he gave a EU Parliament committee in a session titled "Brexit in aviation: Perspective of the Airlines and Tourism Industry" his views on the effects of Brexit. The session was also attended by Willie Walsh (somewhat more optimistic) and top brass from Airbus (concerned about moving staff and components), TUI (pretty much echoing O'Leary), Lufthansa (blabbering about the ME and missing the point) and Airlines of America (warning of the consequences for the TATL JV).
Some quotes from what MOL said:
"This is going to be a real mess. Brexit will be one of the great economic suicide notes in history."
"There is not a legal mechanism on which airlines can operate in a 'hard Brexit, no deal' outcome. There will simply be no flights"
“There is a real prospect, and we need to deal with this, that there are going to be no flights between the UK and Europe for a period of weeks, months beyond March 2019."
““There is not going to be an interim agreement, there is not going to be a legal basis, we will be cancelling flights. We will be cancelling people’s holidays for summer of 2019.”
"I am not sure the Brits, who like their holidays in spain fancy Karachi" (talking about a remark by a senior Brexit minister who had allegedly told him the lost European airline traffic could be made up through a bilateral agreement with Pakistan)
“By September 2018 when your average British voter is sitting down to work out where he is going on his holidays in 2019, the two options he will have are to drive to Scotland or get a ferry to Ireland”
"“The sensible outcome here is to ignore the plebiscite of 12 months ago, stay in Europe and continue to benefit from Open Skies.”
This as he gave a EU Parliament committee in a session titled "Brexit in aviation: Perspective of the Airlines and Tourism Industry" his views on the effects of Brexit. The session was also attended by Willie Walsh (somewhat more optimistic) and top brass from Airbus (concerned about moving staff and components), TUI (pretty much echoing O'Leary), Lufthansa (blabbering about the ME and missing the point) and Airlines of America (warning of the consequences for the TATL JV).
Some quotes from what MOL said:
"This is going to be a real mess. Brexit will be one of the great economic suicide notes in history."
"There is not a legal mechanism on which airlines can operate in a 'hard Brexit, no deal' outcome. There will simply be no flights"
“There is a real prospect, and we need to deal with this, that there are going to be no flights between the UK and Europe for a period of weeks, months beyond March 2019."
““There is not going to be an interim agreement, there is not going to be a legal basis, we will be cancelling flights. We will be cancelling people’s holidays for summer of 2019.”
"I am not sure the Brits, who like their holidays in spain fancy Karachi" (talking about a remark by a senior Brexit minister who had allegedly told him the lost European airline traffic could be made up through a bilateral agreement with Pakistan)
“By September 2018 when your average British voter is sitting down to work out where he is going on his holidays in 2019, the two options he will have are to drive to Scotland or get a ferry to Ireland”

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Does MOL really believe all that, do you think Spain Portugal Greece Italy or France will really want to loose all the money that Brits spend there every summer, me doesn't think so. More hot air from a nobody.

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The point is, some resolution to the fact that we'll be out of the European Court of Justice and therefore by default out of the current open skies, may well be drafted, debated and resolved one day, but there is no way on this earth it will be concluded by March 2019. The departments involved currently don't even know where to start - not a single statement has been promulgated as to how they think this will be resolved - all too bloody difficult. More than that, airlines can't plan UK-EU schedules for 2019 if they don't know what the rules will be by this time latest next year - and they won't. Old bilateral agreements which may have existed previously between the UK and the EU27 individual countries, will in the main be unworkable. Head in sand 'it will all be resolved so stop scaremongering' bull is pathetic, people genuinely don't know where to start on this, it is a very real nightmare which no doubt will be resolved one day, but there simply isn't the time. Better swat up your freedoms of the air and associated legislation - nothing in reverting to WTO rules covers these at all.

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Some nice overview of new routes starting this winter
Ryanair W17 new routes as of 10JUL17 :: Routesonline
Ryanair W17 new routes as of 10JUL17 :: Routesonline

Largest Airline in Europe,
Serves every single EU Country
Deals directly with Govt bureaucracy every day
Obtained detailed legal opinion on outcome and risk to his employers business
And you knowldge on this comes from where ?.

There is some truth in MOL's comments but in the past he has been very prone to hyperbole and crying wolf about things which often do not actually happen. This means many people (including me) are less inclined to believe his scare stories compared to comments that might come from the heads of BA/IAG, Easyjet, Norwegian or any other airline with significant pan-Europe operations

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LOL. Whatever else MOL might be considered to be, anyone who refers to him as a "nobody" has no credibility on this Forum.
I think you'll find that W.Walsh and the others know the critical situation that pertains at this moment in time and it is in line with what MOL says. However, they are, typically, holding back and allowing MOL to do their shouting for them. If nothing continues to happen things will start to hot up fairly quickly.
I think you'll find that W.Walsh and the others know the critical situation that pertains at this moment in time and it is in line with what MOL says. However, they are, typically, holding back and allowing MOL to do their shouting for them. If nothing continues to happen things will start to hot up fairly quickly.

Old bilateral agreements which may have existed previously between the UK and the EU27 individual countries
This means many people (including me) are less inclined to believe his scare stories compared to comments that might come from the heads of BA/IAG, Easyjet, Norwegian or any other airline with significant pan-Europe operations

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If FR are threatening to cancel summer 2019 flights due to Brexit (MOL's words), then why risk booking with them for that period? They may be the largest EU airline but he is the only one suggesting flights will be cancelled. Not great PR and on top of the seat splitting (which I've just had on a plane with only 60 passengers) yet more reason to look at alternative carriers. Shame really they'd done so well do dispel past misgivings.

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LOL. Whatever else MOL might be considered to be, anyone who refers to him as a "nobody" has no credibility on this Forum.
I think you'll find that W.Walsh and the others know the critical situation that pertains at this moment in time and it is in line with what MOL says. However, they are, typically, holding back and allowing MOL to do their shouting for them. If nothing continues to happen things will start to hot up fairly quickly.
I think you'll find that W.Walsh and the others know the critical situation that pertains at this moment in time and it is in line with what MOL says. However, they are, typically, holding back and allowing MOL to do their shouting for them. If nothing continues to happen things will start to hot up fairly quickly.

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This doesn't just involve flights from UK to EU 27 it will affect all EU rest of world agreements, for example the EU US open skies. The UK will cease to be able to operate under these agreements immediately if nothing is done. The ECJ oversees all EU commercial aviation regulations. The complexity is IMHO on top of everything else, is too much and will overwhelm UK Gov.
