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Ryanair - misery machine?

Contrails · 2013-01-10 12:39:16

I've long been a reader of this forum, pprune and other aviation forums. Whenever it comes to Ryanair, customers seem to come away with an average view of the company... Happy with the basic A-B service I suppose. But whenever the actual frontline staff have anything to say, it's down right depressing. Particularly the…

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#32 12-01-2013 11:30pm
Stovepipe

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Ryanair have potential pilots by the balls because they need to get a start somewhere and the available slots are scarce. It's win-win for Ryanair because candidates are willing to pay to fly and, in effect, it's cost free to fill right-hand seats, especially when they know that virtually nobody will oppose Ryanair and other airlines, even legacy companies, will follow their example, except in those countries that are prepared to fight ryanair on issues such as bonding of contractors and minimum rates of pay, France being the honourable exception. This type of stuff is old news in America but at least there, you have a much wider aviation base and a chance to get a start is proportionally much easier and flying is so much cheaper.

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Stovepipe

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