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Wafted from paradise to Luton Airport
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Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Paul Corfield remarked: 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. Ah the "Jimmy Saville Age of the Train" canard. Everyone seated alone at a table-for-four on an HST. Eurostar does not resemble a bus. And most trains don't resemble Eurostar. I travel on buses all the time and they're fine for their job So do I - and they get a bad image. Having spent a week in Geneva, you'd be surprised at the number of oytsiders prepared to pay £20 for a taxi ride that was slower than a very acceptable [free] bus. Although some of that is probably the worry of having to understand announcements exclusively in French abut where to get off And despite their widespread reputation for efficiency my 5.30am bus to the airport was ten minutes late (and the roads deserted of course, so no excuse there). 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. You might not get many people on (eg) rammed unrefurbished 158s agreeing with that point of view. Trains can be very good, but also very bad. 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 I'm sure it's part of his business plan to buy new planes to give easy and consistent maintenance and operations. As opposed to BMIbaby who have a rag-bag collection of surprisingly old planes. 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. Which is the same reason most people won't travel by train. -- Roland Perry |
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