Air travel anti-Christ and CEO of Ryanair, Michael O’Leary overlooks two realities in his pursuit of standing room flights.
1. Filling a 737 with passengers standing upright and strapped to a ‘bar stool’ would exceed the certified emergency evacuation load limit by as many as 90 passengers, and require re-certification and possibly an extra [...]
Tag Archives: Michael O’Leary
The truth about standing room flights, or is Michael O’Leary losing his marbles?
July 7, 2009 – 6:49 am
Anti-Christ update; Ryanair launches home printed boarding pass fee plus a hefty fine
May 14, 2009 – 9:45 am
Ryanair has found new ways to shake down its customers with a £5 fee for printing their own tickets at home, and which is unavoidable, as it is also shutting down all of its check-in desks.
In addition it will fine passengers £40 at the airport if they turn up without it, by charging that amount [...]
Michael O’Leary p*sses on the media from a great height again
February 28, 2009 – 12:54 pm
It says much about how daft the British media and the UK in general has become in these times when Michael O’Leary, the rude, crude and hugely successful chief executive of Ryanair, p*sses on them again from a great height.
On Friday O’Leary made a supposedly off hand comment on the BBC about how in the [...]
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