Just watch him take apart this Panorama interviewer. It’ll be impossible for me to take the show on the BBC tonight seriously.
He is not only hysterically funny but completely accurate too. Flying Ryanair is simple, you make yourself aware of the rules and work within them. I don’t think I’ve ever paid more than €60 for a Ryanair return flight. Treat it as a bus, set your expectations correctly and you’ll find them the perfect short-haul operator.
October 13, 2009 at 12:46 pm
Last time I flew to the UK for a break I’m fairly sure I checked Aer Lingus vs Ryanair and there wasn’t much of a difference in price. We were traveling with luggage and a buggy, and at least on Aer Lingus we had allocated seating.
You can make the same acquisitions about hidden charges to Aer Lingus of course. They’ll charge a 5 Euro per person, each way credit card charge too so they’re all as bad as each other.
That Panorama guy was the wrong person to doorstep him. Great clip though, but I wonder why they had to change tape? Not very professional only having 8 or so minutes of tape.
Was the Panorama programme good?
October 13, 2009 at 1:59 pm
just watched it before logging into google reader. really enjoyed. gotta love that guy.
October 13, 2009 at 4:53 pm
@Donncha It was exactly the hatchet job Michael O’Leary predicted. Full review here: http://www.loudervoice.com/reviews/788182936
October 15, 2009 at 5:16 pm
Ryanair is only cheap if you are 25, without luggage, without family. I admit that this guy has something of a genius, but a bad one. The way he runs his company and how he put pressure on his pilots or cabin crew is terrific
October 15, 2009 at 5:19 pm
Some of the best paid pilots in the world.
I’m 41, can figure out how to travel with hand luggage and love a bargain, so he’ll have me as a customer for the foreseeable future.
October 25, 2009 at 9:01 pm
Wouldn’t you just love to see O’Leary running the country for six months? We’d probably have many more cuts than the current government is proposing but at least it’d be a laugh.
October 25, 2009 at 9:45 pm
Well he could start with all those civil servants who take 16 days sick leave a year. Applying the Ryanair model, they would get 4 sick days a year and then pay through the nose in salary deductions for any further ones.