Indeed but the problem is there is a pile load of people in the British Media who are treating this very different because it's Ryanair and have it in for them, some of which have already been sued before for printing untruths about Ryanair.

If the exact same happened with another airline it would get very little coverage, the amount of flack Jacobs has got in the Mail and the invasion of his privacy however is pretty disgusting.

Really? Apart from through insolvency the only airline that has ever had problems on a similar scale has been BA and the press certainly haven't ignored it when it's happened!

The actual effect has probably been felt by something like 100,000 UK citizens, and every UK citizen that had a Ryanair booking in the next few months has suffered fear. Newspapers don't often get to print a story about something that's affected that many people!

BA was a much bigger scale than this as far as UK flights are concerned.

How many UK flights are Ryanair cancelling a day? About 10? How many were BA cancellng a day? A whole schedule of hundreds.

How much notice did those BA customers get? A day or two. How much notice did Ryanair fliers get? Up to six weeks.

How many BA flyers could transfer to an alternative flight the same day? None How many Ryanair can? A lot.

If you add up all the UK flights BA have cancelled this year it's still going to be higher than Ryanair by the end of all this, but lets not let that get in the way of a good media witchhunt.

It was more severe for a shorter time. But that's part of the problem Ryanair faced; even the drip feed lasted long enough to scare a lot of people!

One only has to look at the fabricated illness stories on All inclusive holidays to see what people will do.

Hardly 100k UK citizens.............

I agree the drip feed was not good - but I suspect some of that was down to the fact they realised the problems so late that they had to cancel any flight in the first few days to be able to cope since they didn't have time to work out a more sensible plan of action that would effect customers the least like they did with the later cancellations.

Jacobs was particuarly bad, they started posting entire articles about him, containing screenshots from his Facebook and pretty much everything he ever done and taking a whole load of it completely out of context and linked it to the current crisis by saying that basically the person who was at a crisis press conference beside Michael O'Leary then was seen drinking beer.

There was one massive problem with this.

Jacobs wasn't at the press conference.

But why let the facts get in the way.

Oh its stored up revenge and this story will get dredged up at every turn.

Media buying arm always changes it because when some see the £1 million campaign that excludes their newspaper they get the message.

MOL refusing to kowtow to UK media makes them angry as doesn't he know who they are.
Problem is that he does which is why he ignores them.

Ok, a large number of people and far more than affected by the normal news story.

The day I looked at may not have been representative, but on it more than half the flights involved the UK, and we might guess that about half the people on those flights were British (I know some will have more people from abroad than others, but on the other hand don't try telling me that there's a lot of Spaniards flying from EMA to Palma at this time of year :-D )

The good news is that things like this (if it's true) may have less effect than you think. I first found out about this from you right now and had never seen the story or heard of the man.

But I have seen a Facebook feed with people sharing stories about cancellations and worrying about their short breaks (not one person I know has actually had a flight cancelled by anyone other than EasyJet in this period, but that's by the by; the fear and the bad press are there and causing harm).

Ryanair marketing boss boasts of his 'busy week' | Daily Mail Online

Of course, it won't do any real damage, but my point is this shows the way the British Media are, it's not about printing facts it's all about having it in for people who they don't like and facts need not necessarily get in the way of that.

I agree and the fact that Ryanair tend to normally cancel less flights than almost all the other airlines because of the extensive use of standby crews to recover service means historically they have cancelled less flights in the past.

That's before you take into account the many strikes that have took place over the years in other airlines and IT problems etc that has grounded whole schedules for days.

As I've said even after this is finished Ryanair still probably won't be anywhere near the top of the stats of % of flights cancelled in this calendar year, but the media would have you believe that they are unreliable and more likely to cancel than anyone else.

Really ?

Southern Railways strike ?
London Euston fire last week ?
Tube Strikes ?

We are talking of Facebook where people will be claiming their trip to X has been affected as all of a sudden they get attention.
Reality is most will NOT have anything booked and will not be effected in the slightest.
However their claim to fame will be people reading their crap on facebook.

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/201...1-ryanair-agm/

The question should be: why didn't Ryanair resort to the modern day Eirjet's of this world for this pilot shortage and wet lease planes and crews from other airlines?

Have they not?

I assumed the cancellations would be what was left over after they'd got their hands on anything they could!

Nail. Head. Hit.

The BA outage was a buried story. And there is a lot to that little gem. Bur it was buried. Those on here know it.

Strange. I could have sworn that it hit the headlines in pretty well every newspaper in the county.