There's been a bit of hysteria lately following a Channel 4 documentary about the budget airline Ryanair.
In all fairness, Ryanair arn't exactly famed for avoiding controversy. Their boss Michael O’Leary is a typical hard-nosed, take no shit sort of business guy. A typical “by low, sell high” kind of bloke. He dislikes the disabled, frowns upon you taking luggage and thinks nothing of dumping you 100 miles from where you actually want to be, but when you’ve only paid 5p for a flight, you can’t really argue.
But in reality, the programme was crap. The only thing that the whole 1 hour programme really found out was that the Criminal Record Bureau is useless, journalists know nothing about planes and that human beings need sleep. Why they needed to pay someone to work for Ryanair for 5 weeks just to find that out is anyone’s guess.
Well this hack found plenty. Firstly, she didn’t know how the emergency slide worked on the door, so assumed it must be faulty. Then she was horrified to learn that one of the seats didn’t have a lifejacket.
Now apart from the initial shock of wondering how a passenger managed to walk out with a bright orange lifejacket bulging from under his shirt, why was she so bothered?
For some reason, she seemed to think that planes can land on water…no love, they don’t work like that. Planes don’t land on water, they plunge into the ocean and break into a thousand pieces. It’s just simple physics really.
It’s the sort of scaremongering that the British press is really good at. Us Brits love a good scandal now and again, especially the stupid amongst us.
Nobody should have been shocked by that programme. The sort of corner cutting you saw there was the sort you see in any other business, especially those in competitive markets. As long as the planes have just as many landings as they do take-offs, who cares?
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