With any luck he’ll do the same as Blair might do and step down BEFORE he originally plans to. Commercial aviation will be better off the day that guy leaves the industry.

Andy

you think so, eh?

i don’t agree. he is arguably one of the men that has transformed the entire industry. he has helped develop a hugely competitive low cost airline industry. he is arguably the person that has made every legacy carrier in the world take a look at themselves and realise that actually they were, and still are, inefficient, over sized, loss making hulks of airlines.

he has introduced a very competitive market within europe – he is driving down costs – he arguably is the one that has introduced (and forced) low cost tickets – even forcing legacy carriers to reduce their costs.

ok, he may be having a negative impact on some legacy carriers – but whats the problem with a bit of healthy competition – competition is what drives the industry along. the legacy carriers were arguably so unprepared for the low cost airline – they perhaps have grown a sense of self security in the 70-90s (ok, they were having problems then) – they didn’t think that anyone other than a legacy carrier could compete with them, so the industry perhaps slowed. the 90s and 00s have seen the revolution in the industry bought about by low cost airlines taking advantge of legacy carriers failings.

he has helped many many regional airports grow and expand, bringing prosperity to the local areas – employment, investment and tourists.

he is a very very good manager and he knows how to do ‘things’ – he’s an accountant and using his knowledge of the area he has managed to cut costs, and manage costs extremely well – ryanair keeps its costs down – more so than any other low cost airline. ryanair costs less to run than other low cost airlines of similar size.

ok, he may be annoying and loud, but hey, again, isn’t that forcing legacy carriers to look at themselves even closer? his loud style is a PR machine.

he has arguably sparked the revolution in low cost travel – ok, we can go into a long argument about who did spark it, but he is definately one of the MAJOR factors.

thanks.

thanks Tom!

here are four more…

thanks

hi people.

great shots guys!

heres a JAL 767 (posky) flight from Osaka Kansai – Tokyo Haneda.
i was in the cruise for just three minutes – so there aren’t many flight shots – just these ground ones.

enjoy!

quite a few shots – sorry 56k ers.

i have one shot that i’d like to share – my first heavily editted shot.

wow. looks superb Michael

last few-

i think they look a bit ‘dark’/’shady’ in places.

thanks

hi all

ive done one of the classic must-do flights. miami – princess juliana st.maarten

but what ive done is edited the shots, and i just wanted to see what you think. do they look different to you? over-saturated? are the colours ‘odd’?

thanks

(they are fairly large files – sorry dial-uppers)