It’s worth the extra to boycott Ryanair
Over the years Ryanair has shown scant consideration for its fare-paying customers what with their restrictive seating and hand luggage arrangements being altered whenever Mr O’Leary felt like it. But this time he really has overstepped the mark. By cancelling a further 18,000 flights over the winter period, Ryanair has been proven to be a thoroughly untrustworthy carrier.
A lot of people will, by now, have realised it’s worth paying a bit more for a dependable service. Business people and holiday makers alike expect reliability, without which no airline can expect to survive in today’s competitive market.
Brian Davies, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
The Ryanair cancelled flights fiasco becomes more and more of an incredible mess by the day. I can’t help thinking there is a lot more to this story than we have been told. A large number of pilots going to Norwegian Air and the mix up in the holiday rota, is only scratching the surface by way of an explanation. Could Michael O’Leary be related to Gerald Ratner – boss of jewellers Ratners who slated his own products and wiped £500m off its value – by any chance? And will confidence in Ryanair go the same way as confidence in that firm?
Dai Woosnam, Grimsby North East Lincs
It’s hardly surprising that passengers are calling for a boycott of Ryanair after the latest flights debacle (Mirror, September 29).
O’Leary has shown contempt for his customers by cancelling a further 18,000 flights which will ruin the travel plans of up to 750,000 people. The problem is, though, he has passengers over a barrel because he knows they want cheap flights.
Geoff Lake, Washington Tyne & Wear
It wasn’t so long ago that it was reported Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary said he was underpaid on a wage of £3 million a year.
Now that he is bringing the airline to its knees and ruining thousands of people’s holidays, does he still think he’s underpaid?
Mick Rutland, Stockton-on-Tees Teesside
Surely Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary has to be the frontrunner in the ‘Grinch Award’ for Christmas’s biggest villain. Not only has he caused misery for hundreds of thousands of passengers so far, the new raft of flight cancellations announced by the airline will affect 18,000 flights, ruining Christmas holiday plans for thousands more.
O’Leary and Ryanair will not learn from this fiasco unless people hit them where it hurts hardest – in ticket sales and therefore profits.
Boycott Ryanair!
A J Smith, March, Cambs
Ryanair’s cost-cutting exercises and other schemes have seemingly finally caught up with them and bitten them on the proverbial. Perhaps the Civil Aviation Authority should examine the ability of this airline to provide a safe service if it is so short of pilots.
R Tandy, Liverpool