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Wafted from paradise to Luton Airport
Paul Corfield wrote on 12 October 2009 21:19:24 ...
On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:31:22 +0100, Roland Perry wrote: In message , at 18:40:32 on Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Paul Corfield remarked: I would rather have needles stuck in my eyes than fly Ryanair. Did you have a bad experience, or are you just reacting to the chattering campaign about them? Am I allowed to say I have never travelled with them and never will? So 100% prejudice. Glad we got that out in the open. Sure. I'm not aware there is a rule against 100% blind prejudice. Anyway Mr O'Leary won't give a toss about not having me as one of his customers so I'd say we're about quits ;-) This is based on what you'd probably call an irrational dislike of their business model and of dear old Mr O'Leary. He's a clever bloke but I don't like his business methods or attitudes whereby Ryanair are always right and everyone else can go hang. If I want to experience bus travel then I'll use a bus thanks very much! Or quite a lot of trains. Indeed, Ryanair's planes are mainly pretty new, and not bad to travel on at all. Well yes but I would not call a decent Inter City train a bus. Eurostar does not resemble a bus. I travel on buses all the time and they're fine for their job as are plenty of trains and plenty of airlines. Even jammed full Class 378s are not buses - they're high capacity trains doing their job. I don't feel I have lost out by not travelling by Ryanair. I would hope Mr O'Leary's planes are pretty new given the huge rate of expansion that he has managed with his airline - doesn't stop them having faults nor having pilots that cannot find the correct airport though nor the operation being run on an absolute shoestring. Even if I was to discount half of the negative comments and reports I have read about Ryanair I would still not travel with them. I think that's a rational attitude, and I share it. There comes a point at which the volume of informed negative comment is so great that one can't ignore it. It's not "irrational", nor is it "blind prejudice". It's a valid risk assessment based on available evidence. -- Richard J. (to email me, swap 'uk' and 'yon' in address) |
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