Question for Leo
 

I am not sure what happened, but in one of the threads about Aer Lingus I had posed a question for Leo Hairy-Camel,(who I believe had started the thread), about pensions. The whole thread seems to have disappeared, so to allow Leo to respond, how much do Ryanair pay into your pension?

I may be wrong but I gathered that Leo was looking after his own pension arrangements. I did that for part of my career and it worked out pretty well.

you have rendered him speechless....?

And the answer is?....................

On a need to know basis :D

So is this Leo or the Real Slim Shady? Or are they one and the same?

Is your statement the same "need to know" that requires the hirsute one to pontificate over every other airlines terms and conditions?

The desire of the few vocal Ryanair mouthpieces to comment and invariably disparage everybody else's T & C's, to try and continue the pretence that you enjoy industry leading terms, needs to be challenged. RSS, you must also enjoy the same pension benefits as Leo. How much?

Nice one 100%, I thought it was unlikely LHC would reply with such brevity.

LHC did actually reply to this some time ago by stating he looked after his own pension arrangements and saying he preferred that amount of control, if I remember correctly. He declined to say whether RYR actually made any contribution or not. I can only guess that TRSS and his wife, ATS, are in the position. This is in contrast with most unionised companies in UK.

Don't expect an answer too soon.

Like a dog with an old bone you just keep at it Al.
There is something most peculiar in your constant sniping at Ryanair that I can't put my finger on. I find it unnerving.
You live in the past and have become an embarrassment to yourself. I suggest that you look at exactly what companies in any industry are giving the old style 'golden Pension' these days. Don't include Public sector workers. Only 1 in 5 major employers allows new starters to join a final-salary pension scheme at present.

Last week you made as unhelpful comment to someone asking information for Ryanair assessment. Just wasn't appropriate buddy. Likewise your showing of a PM on this board.

''All the more reason to unionise'' you cried over the union debate.
A call to arms!
Red Robbo lives!
So you want us to become a strong union workforce like the great UK dockers, shipping, steel, car, coal etc, industries? Fat lot of good unions did for them.
What were you doing in the 70's when the dead couldn't be buried, me fighting fires in a Green Goddess, pavements full of household and industrial waste, power cuts, the 4 day working week, power cuts to homes, gas shortage to industry?
Have a think about the cause .............. unions .............. but I don't expect you to agree to that as your attitude to the employer is clear.
Matey, you come on here shouting the odds and slagging off my work colleagues. How very dare you!
I'm not in the slightest impressed by your credentials as an activist.
You have had your say here. I wish you a happy life, but please consider the true worth of your further presence on a Pilots Board.
So until you get yourself a Pilots Licensee and worked for several majors please do us all a favour and jog on.

Nightflight, you'd have more chance getting written permission from the squire to visit on an open day than to get that information. Imagine an impromptu pprune members visit to Gigginstown. We'd have to invite Leo and Leo. perhaps a few others including Grim, Slim and for balance Dr Death himself. Spirits should be high after T2 opening ceremony? Whats life without a laugh.

Was that a bid of flash advertising I saw or is it another migraine coming on?

As a Stansted based Captain, I put the maximum £5,000 p.a. into the company pension scheme managed by Standard Life and Ryanair match that with another £5,000.

Just as a matter of interest, what did happen to the Aer Lingus thread. Among the usual muck slinging there was actually some interesting stuff?
:ok:

Q for Leo
 

Q. Why is Ryanair publically seeking a 'Yes' vote for Lisbon?

Actually the shameless oik is trying to mend fences with the EU as he continues to try and get a monopoly on air travel in/out of Ireland
Methinks, he has spat in too many eurocrat's faces for that to ever fly

Where has Leo gone? He's normally so quick to provide the answer for the problems of Aer Lingus, easy, BA and the commercial problems of aviation generally I don't understand why he doesn't want to answer this one simple question?

Probaly on his way to this forum by FR but landed on a similar sounding forum 50 miles away

Bet he arrived there on time though:ok:

thats just super, super737. This could be the new FR slogan and it could describe an FR career also " Ryan Air, going nowhere, but making excellent time".

Leo Hairy Camel
= O Leary Hi Camel
= Michael O Leary

Who else would use this username?

As these are anonymous forums the origins of the contributions may be opposite to what may be apparent. In fact the press may use it, or the unscrupulous, or sciolists*, to elicit certain reactions.
*"sciolist"... Noun, archaic. "a person who pretends to be knowledgeable and well informed".

Because he is trying to persuade the Irish Government to sell him the State's stake in Aer Lingus.

But don't take my word for it, here's the man himself in an interview broadcast on 27th Sept 2009.

Business Matters - TV3

Interview starts at 18 min, question is answered at 20 mins.

JAS