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Ryanair boss in Brussels...

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  • #62
    gerryo777
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,210 ✭✭✭gerryo777


    The man is a legend.
    I'd love to see him run the public sector here for a couple of years.:D


  • #63
    Jeboa Safari
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭Jeboa Safari


    ThePower11 wrote: »
    Is there any Boardsie's that have or are working for Ryanair? It'd be interesting to hear what frontline staff have to say about there employers.

    I can't imagine the salaries are over generous.

    He said something in the presentation about Ryanair having the second highest average pay out of the European airlines


  • #64
    woodoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,219 ✭✭✭woodoo


    gerryo777 wrote: »
    The man is a legend.
    I'd love to see him run the public sector here for a couple of years.:D

    Business growth will get us out of this mess not the public sector. People would do well to focus on the real problems and not the easy targets. He is better off where he is. Perhaps he could even advise our government on it too.


  • #65
    gerryo777
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,210 ✭✭✭gerryo777


    woodoo wrote: »
    Business growth will get us out of this mess not the public sector. People would do well to focus on the real problems and not the easy targets. He is better off where he is. Perhaps he could even advise our government on it too.
    The PS is proving to be anything but an "easy target".
    Pay rises every year, unsackable, retire whenever you like and get a full pension,the list goes on and on..... O'Leary would put a stop to all that in a stroke.....
    BTW, I'm not getting at the PS workers at the lower end of the scale, it's the ones with a sense of entitlement we need to tackle.


  • #66
    Cian92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 827 ✭✭✭Cian92


    gigino wrote: »
    iIt is a low cost airline. You should have travelled to England 30 years ago, before Ryanair. It was 200 pounds then, and to put it in context some people worked for 1.50 an hour. A Pint was about a pound, or less. 200 was a lot of money. The plane still landed at Heathrow, you still had to get to London. When Ryanair started flying to Luton, Luton is virtually as convenient.
    9 euro or 50 euro, its still cheap. One hours work for many people. Cop yourself on. Plus its not subsidised by the taxpayer, like CIE is. And CIE fares are higher per mile.;)

    It was deregulation that lowered the price, not Michael O Leary. Whoever entered the market was going to lower prices.

    Personally I don't fly Ryanair, I was overcharged before and never got my money back. I also have problems with the queing. It is fine leaving Ireland but in the small ****ty airports in Europe run by ryanair, you are herded about like cattle.

    So I adopted a policy, fly with anyone but Ryanair.


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  • #67
    gigino
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,350 ✭✭✭gigino


    Cian92 wrote: »
    It was deregulation that lowered the price, not Michael O Leary. Whoever entered the market was going to lower prices.
    not to as little as 2 cents, which a poster 3 or 4 posts ago was charged. two cents to fly to London !

    Ryanair have grown to be Europes biggest airline, if not the worlds. Give O'Leary and his staff some credit. Pity we had not people like him running the country instead of Bertie + Cowen + Kenny/Gilmore/unions.


  • #68
    Cian92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 827 ✭✭✭Cian92


    gigino wrote: »
    not to as little as 2 cents, which a poster 3 or 4 posts ago was charged. two cents to fly to London !

    Ryanair have grown to be Europes biggest airline, if not the worlds. Give O'Leary and his staff some credit. Pity we had not people like him running the country instead of Bertie + Cowen + Kenny/Gilmore/unions.

    These flights are not always common, Lanzarote in Septmeber for me was €200, and i was over charged by another 80.

    Running the country? Are you mad? Try being a kid with special needs in a country run by him. I could only imagine him cutting essential public services.

    Yes he is a very good business man. I'm not saying otherwise , just that there is no way in hell I will ever get on a Ryanair flight agian. I recently paid extra to fly lufthansa instead and plan on going for an Aerlingus flight soon too. This is coming from a college student btw.
    He has not got the stuff to lead the country though.


  • #69
    gigino
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,350 ✭✭✭gigino


    Cian92 wrote: »
    These flights are not always common.

    nobody said two cent flights were always common.:D

    Cian92 wrote: »
    Lanzarote in Septmeber for me was €200
    Cian92 wrote: »
    I recently paid extra to fly lufthansa instead and plan on going for an Aerlingus flight soon too. This is coming from a college student btw.

    If you can afford to fly that often, and you can afford to fly by the more expensive airlines, you are certainly having a better life as a student than I had.;)
    Cian92 wrote: »
    He has not got the stuff to lead the country though.
    You think Ahern, Cowen and Kenny/Gilmore are better ? They could not even run a house between them, without borrowing a fortune to do so.


  • #70
    MyKeyG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,282 ✭✭✭MyKeyG


    Cian92 wrote: »
    These flights are not always common, Lanzarote in Septmeber for me was €200, and i was over charged by another 80.

    Running the country? Are you mad? Try being a kid with special needs in a country run by him. I could only imagine him cutting essential public services.

    Yes he is a very good business man. I'm not saying otherwise , just that there is no way in hell I will ever get on a Ryanair flight agian. I recently paid extra to fly lufthansa instead and plan on going for an Aerlingus flight soon too. This is coming from a college student btw.
    He has not got the stuff to lead the country though.
    You fail to mention why you were over-charged. It's interesting you have such a big problem with the charge but you're so anti-Ryanair you won't even state how they 'screwed you over'. I wonder whose fault it actually was?


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