Well, I’m not talking about Thomas Cook – unless they’ve radically altered their fleet overnight.

I don’t recall Ryanair ever operating a lot of flights from BHX.

Also, to be frank, “too dear” increasingly seems to translate as “not free” when the phrase is associated with airports that Ryanair serves.

Calling someone childish on an open forum is bad form! As is any form of personal insult for that matter.

Would calling someone an “old eejit” be bad form or a personal insult, Sandy?

Glass houses, stones, etc…………. 😎

To return to the topic – airlines are businesses and must (normally) make a profit to survive. To do this, they need the right product and the right tools.

The executives of those businesses decide which tools are best suited to their needs – some businesses will buy from supplier A, others from supplier B, still others will mix and match products from both.

I would respectfully suggest to some of our more “partisan” colleagues on the forum that those executives probably know just a little bit more about their own business than we punters do and that none of them would buy a duff tool from any manufacturer.

That soon, you reckon?

Sniff sniff….. oh yes… I smell bullsh*t

Yep!

There again, you are quoting John Leahy, the (American) head of Airbus’s commercial arm. What sort of thing do you expect him to say? He’s a salesman for pity’s sake!

Do you imagine for a moment that Boeing or even Embraer sales executives are any more objective when it comes to discussing the opposition? 😀

They didn’t, but it’s perfectly true neverthless. 😀

No, that’s the side of success – the face would be at the front.

Come on now, it’s only a (somewhat garish) paint job – not the Second Coming!