I don’t think anyone needs to treat employees the way he treats his though… Asian sweatshop factory children get more perks than Ryanair staff.

I heard in the news his latest move has been to ban employees from recharging their mobile phones on Ryanair premises. The electricity cost of recharging a mobile phone is around 1p. Clearly a company that makes £150m in profits has to look after the penny…

Summer CET is indeed GMT +2

Makes sense too, seeing as we’re GMT+1 during the summer (i.e. BST).

The A380 is already a dinosaur because of its metal construction.

If the most recent and modern aircraft built is ‘already a dinosaur’ because of its metal construction, I wonder how should we describe models such as the 777 or the 737NG… :rolleyes: 😉

If they have to perform rotation tests before proceeding to first flight, I’d imagine they’d have to do them very soon indeed, if first flight is happening this week…

Perhaps it’s no so much the airlines (which at the end of the day should want the most adequate product for their businesses) as some of the passengers themselves. Judging by comments seen and heard on internet boards out there, the “if it ain’t Boeing I’m not going” brigade is alive and well. People who claim they will not fly on an European-made a/c, only American ones. That has to have had an effect when it comes to consider a purchase.

Although it’s good to support one’s own industry there is nothing wrong with airlines, even flagship carrier ones, buying a/c from other countries. This has never been a problem in Europe, with many airlines having an all-Boeing or manily-Boeing fleet, but there used to be a rather different (and a bit moronic if you ask me) position in America regarding ownership of non-American a/c.

An American airline with an all Airbus fleet? I like it. 🙂

Let it be one of many 😉

Hopefully Airbus will position it next to an A318 at Paris then 😀