Indeed Dr S, whilst they do treat everyone with equal contempt on their flights (you’re not a customer/human being/passenger…you’re nothing more to them than a mere statistic!), their impact on the industry has resulted in other airlines charging customers a higher price for what is now considered to be a “below-average/shoddy” level of service, because everything revolves around “price” and price alone, and trying to get things for as cheap as possible.

Gone are the days of “respectable” air travel with a “respectable” level of service at an equally “respectable” price!

I am perfectly calm Grey, but I do think that in these kind of threads where there is no clearly defined outcome and it is simply based on a matter of opinion, everyone appears to get on their high-horse so as to try to prove/disprove that their viewpoint is as equally valid as everyone else’s, and there sometimes going to be instances where some take it slightly more seriously than they really should, and God knows I have been known to do it myself…what can I say, I’m human.

To put it bluntly though, Ryanair is quite literally the Marmite of the airline industry…you either love ’em or hate ’em, and it doesn’t matter which side your on, whatever you think about them is valid, after all its your opinion.

What is so “puzzling” about it though…?

Of course you’re not the only person to raise a concern over what he said, but when you come out with statements such as “I just hate narrow-minded attitudes”…it just strikes me as though you seem to think that everything you say is right, and whenever someone says something to the contary you’re up there ready to pour scorn all over it, and often it is the way you say things that can comes across as rather confrontational.

Of course, I do not dispute that you are perfectly appropriate to express your opinions too, but just accept that other people don’t necessarily share the same views, as should everyone else.

What happens to the overall structure then Keith once all the reuseable parts have been taken…is there such thing as “recycling” a fuselage?!

BAA says “Don’t blame us…”

Rather unsurprisingly, BAA have come back fighting against the claims made by bmi after their announcement that they are going to stop flying between London Heathrow and Glasgow.

BAA claim that the decision by bmi to drop the Glasgow route has been on the cards for quite some time now, and that the reason is “purely a commercial one”…and that it is wrong for bmi to blame them.

Whilst load factor/yield may well have influenced the decision, surely it is the increase in the charges at Heathrow that has been the final nail in the coffin, which has led to bmi making this “commerical” decision, so they [BAA] do need to shoulder some responsibility for the loss of the route?

I picked up a copy of The Girl With The Dragon Tatoo whilst doing my weekly shop this week, so I sat and watched it this afternoon.

Great film, decent plot, although I must admit I did experience a slight difficulty at first in keeping up with the subtitles as it was quite fast paced in some parts, but I managed in the end; refused to have to turn on the English Audio version!:D:o

Very nice dgimage, thanks for sharing.:)

Any ideas as to why the Manx2 Dornier 228 was at GLA at all?:confused:

The Flight would be Monday morn. early and Friday teatime back to UK.

Just bear in mind that the times you want/need to travel are peak travelling times, and seeing as CityJet (VLM) are the only airline to fly direct, and it being from LCY, it probably won’t be all that cheap…but seeing as its for work purposes, is cost necessarily a factor?