Just another reminder to me why I do not fly Ryanair
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The Scrunt Wants a Dozen Pints, Sat 4 Aug 2012, 8:55,
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I've worked with them
I've gone out of my way to avoid flying with them as a result.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Sat 4 Aug 2012, 9:07,
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I've flown with them
I've gone out of my way to avoid flying with them again as a result
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LP, Sat 4 Aug 2012, 9:15,
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I've flown with them
It was ok.
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Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Sat 4 Aug 2012, 11:56,
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Anything in particular happened that convinced you to stay away?
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JamTallons, Sat 4 Aug 2012, 9:19,
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No single incident springs to mind
More a cumulative impression that the way the company was run would aggravate such incidents as above, rather than mitigate them.
There's a saying in aviation: Time to spare, go by air. In other words caution should be above punctuality. Encouraging the Captain to always have one eye on the clock doesn't seem to me to be the best way to promote that.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Sat 4 Aug 2012, 10:02,
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As you probably know the Saying
"There are old pilots and bold pilots, but no old and bold pilots."
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The Scrunt Wants a Dozen Pints, Sat 4 Aug 2012, 11:56,
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That's not the Ryanair plane
That's the American Airlines plane, which had just made a transatlantic crossing. Not sure if that's reassuring or scary.
The picture below it in the article shows much less dramatic damage to the Ryanair plane.
However, the Ryanair captain does seem to have been very blase about it. Women drivers, eh?
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That is as a direct result of the Ryanair crew's actions.
Their poor handling of a reported ground contact directly led to two damaged aircraft taking off.
There may not be much visible damage to the Ryanair plane's wingtip, but that doesn't mean it wasn't hiding structural damage. They should have informed tower of the reported collision, then asked for ground crew to come out and visually inspect both planes for verification. That all takes time though.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Sat 4 Aug 2012, 9:29,
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You do that enough for everyone.
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Sat 4 Aug 2012, 9:18,
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Can you see him stroking his pussy?
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Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Sat 4 Aug 2012, 9:47,
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I refuse to fly with RyanAir
but there are a fair number of mitigating factors here - the captain thought it was only one passenger who had reported it, which she dismissed because she had:
eyeballed the pass by actually leaving her seat
noticed that the taxiway was particularly bumpy
given extra clearance to the 767 which was at least 16m behind it's stand.
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JeremyBeadlesHands, Sat 4 Aug 2012, 10:08,
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Yes and no
when in doubt, just deal with it.
Apparently she's been demoted to co-pilot by Ryanair
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The Scrunt Wants a Dozen Pints, Sat 4 Aug 2012, 12:05,
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To be fair...
The Ryanair cabin crew should have taken the passengers' observations more seriously and believed that there HAD been a minor collision.
But... to have worried and alarmed passengers before take-off is not unknown to cabin crew, and (almost) invariably, any 'problems' they report are just part of the normal taxi and take-off procedure.
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notoolsovernight you're all luvvly an' 'orrible, Sat 4 Aug 2012, 10:16,
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