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Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

27th May 2017, 18:36

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Posted By BigFrank

I'm confused by this post. The last line...

I'm confused by this post.

The last line appears to purport to add some additional information to the discussion.

But, unless I am missing something significant, it doesn't. Not at all.

The...

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

19th Jan 2013, 10:20

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Ryanair - 9

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Posted By BigFrank

Joking?

Anything but!

The joker is the person who seized on a meaningless non-statistic and then wheeled it out as holy writ.(For exactly the spurious PR purposes mentioned in the last post.)

Step...

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

18th Jan 2013, 20:31

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Ryanair - 9

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Posted By BigFrank

Disprove they are wrong ?

Dear oh dear oh dear, indeed.

OK,maybe the bigwigs of ACI did originally write that every 1m passengers creates "UP TO" a certain number of jobs but it is still meaningless gibberish from a...

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

17th Jan 2013, 22:28

Replies: 4,104

Ryanair - 9

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Posted By BigFrank

Wrong capitals !!!

It's not ACI for whom I added the caps (as they were used in the original Ryanair press release) but rather the weasel words "UP TO" which wholly vitiate the digits which follow.

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

17th Jan 2013, 21:00

Replies: 4,104

Ryanair - 9

Views: 2,543,070

Posted By BigFrank

ACI research confirms up to 1,000 ‘on-site’ jobs.....

Or to quote in full (but with my capitals) "ACI research confirms UP TO 1,000 ‘on-site’ jobs are sustained at international airports for every 1m passengers ."

This drivel was printed in the...

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

10th Jan 2013, 21:27

Replies: 4,104

Ryanair - 9

Views: 2,543,070

Posted By BigFrank

Ryanair: "No such thing as bad publicity" ?

On the above basis, sales in Spain (now one of its biggest markets, where if I am not mistaken it is already much much bigger than ailing Iberia-out-of-IAG) will go through the roof shortly as a...

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

7th Nov 2012, 17:34

Replies: 4,104

Ryanair - 9

Views: 2,543,070

Posted By BigFrank

Thick/ thin skin ....value for money

27% indeed seems a tad steep as a charge in the real world.

Though not of course in the unreal world of M O'L and his acolytes where customers (sic) are charged the princely sum of 40€ for having...

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

7th Nov 2012, 09:49

Replies: 4,104

Ryanair - 9

Views: 2,543,070

Posted By BigFrank

Irish (and other) enforcement of EU261/2004

As per my previous post, I already factored in the cosy working relationship between Ryanair and the local Gardai-equivalents and thus discounted the Irish authorities as enforcers of the law. (After...

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

6th Nov 2012, 22:59

Replies: 4,104

Ryanair - 9

Views: 2,543,070

Posted By BigFrank

Commercially self-defeating, immoral and ILLEGAL

I remain amazed that "industry insiders" (I presume) on a website of this nature can post ignorant comments as below:

"The one thing that frightens off older passengers is their policy of leaving...

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

5th Nov 2012, 20:56

Replies: 4,104

Ryanair - 9

Views: 2,543,070

Posted By BigFrank

Profit statement

I am still amazed (ok, after all these years it has now degenerated merely to "surprised") that the ongoing illegal-under-EU-regulations subsidies demanded and received by Ryanair all over the...

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