You think, for instance, British Airways would not clean up sick, roster crews on so often they are badly fatigued, have aircrew so terrified of being sacked they can’t even offer the basic common courtesy of supplying drinks to passenger who’ve been held inside a hot aeroplane in a hot country for 3 hours? I think not.
Having particpated in a market research study involving airline chief medical officers for a company that wanted to sell kits for “bio-fluid spills” on airliners, I hesitate to identify them but there are quite a few airlines that as company policy do (or more accurately, at the time of surveying did) not clean up sick. I draw a veil over how they dealt with other bio-spills 😮
And yes I’ve been on a flight that was delayed a number of hours on the ground where they would not serve us drinks ‘because ATC might give us an early departure and we need to be ready to leave right away’. SAfter an hour that excuse began to wear thin.
The downward pressure on costs has affected all airlines and, sadly, in recent years the take it or leave it attitude of staff has not been limited to the LCCs. I have seen it personally in other airlines this last year or two.
And as for safety lapses can I remind the House of a certian Malaysian airline that flew aircraft to the UK with the minimum of fuel with the result that it was very nearly banned from UK airspace after a number of fuel related diversions.
I hold no particular brief for supporting Ryanair but I don’t think they are the only one that fingers could be pointed at.
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