That shy and retiring CEO of Ryanair, Michael O'Leary today has been grabbing the headlines as it proposes to reduce the amount of toilets on-board their 737-800's from three to one. The says by doing this, he would be able to reduce fares by a grand total of 5% on a flight by adding an whole extra row of seating in a 737-800, estimating a fare would fall £2 from £40 to … [Read more...]
FR: Want to avoid paying a booking fee? Use *it’s own* Prepaid Creditcard.
Once again, Ryanair is at it again when it comes to milking money out of the consumer. Whilst the Office of Fair Trading and Which? are keeping pressures on the anti-competitive use of Debit cards and charges, Ryanair comes along to boss around by changing the terms of it's payment. At the moment, to pay any Ryanair fare you're charged the privilege of £6 per leg … [Read more...]
Ryanair Declared “puerile and childish”. What’s new?
(I've almost caught up with my posts - dread the thought I might be up to date by tomorrow afternoon. Of course stranger things have happened - normally whilst I'm in the queue to board the plane). How long is it since I've bitched about O'Leary's pestilence of an airline? Far too long it seems. The Office of Fair Trading enforces both consumer protection and competition … [Read more...]
The News Roundup
Sorry I haven't had a chance to do this this past two weeks - life at Kevin Towers has been close to a living hell. Those who know the words "Exchange Server Migration" will know where I'm coming from. As last weeks news is more or less irrelevant like any news (ask the The Daily Mail after this weeks furoiri over the death of Steven Gately commentary piece by one of … [Read more...]
Once again – BBC and Odius Little Man Lock horns
It's turning into straight BBC vs O'Liar fight now, thanks to the growing spat. For those in the UK - watch http://news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/front_page/newsid_8285000/8285260.stm. Of course, there's arguments of editorial bias, and downright arguments - FT Alphaville posted a wonderful transcript of the letter which Ryanair posted themselves (PDF)... One page this … [Read more...]
Auntie goes after the Odious Little Man… and makes a nice music video…
If there's one thing you can trust the BBC to do - and it's "Watchdog" programme - it's to go after companies. Especially if Anne Robinson (of The Weakest Link) is at the helm. This week it's the turn of the aviation industry's scum - Ryanair. It's of course, an attack on Ryanair's so called cheap fares policy, and the idea of removing check-in desks and replacing … [Read more...]
The Friday News Roundup
It's Friday again, so it must be time for me to look at the news for the week: Ryanair takes its balls away... Ryanair pulls aircraft and services from Manchester - Analysis on here on why O'Liar is talking once again out of his back side. BBC News, GhettoIFE.com Korean Air - Profit! Korean Air posted a net income of 78.5b won ( or about $62.4 million) for Q2/2009 … [Read more...]
Ryanair partially pulls out of MAN…
However, it isn't the end of the world. Job losses: If there is one thing O'Leary loves, its hyping numbers - in this case the job losses shouldn't be that many (and if anything - it's mostly ground handling crews so they should get redeployed by the handling company) Services: Well well well. Lets look at these hotspots and work out what's happening Barcelona (Girona), … [Read more...]
Another Day, Another O’Liar Rant. Someone change the channel please?
So its making it's way around the nets about Ryanair reducing its flights in and out of Stansted (STN) by 40%, and actual flights by 30% - or in real numbers - 4 less B737-800's. 4. Big whoop. Of course. O'Liar doesn't want to highlight this. Instead, he chooses to bitch about BAA (form a queue - there's a lot of us who wish to moan about the Shopping mall with Airbridges … [Read more...]
Soapbox: O’Leary Makes Comment about selling standing space…
... news networks go … [Read more...]
