Ryanair on Channel 4

[bhaexpress]

Heard the same. Pilots are paid high but no free training; cabin crew get sales commission is what I was told.

Yes but it's hardly a lot of money. Some ailines don't pay their cabin staff while they are training and no airline to my knowledge pays it's pilots to train as it's a long and very expensive process.

BA used to have some sort of graduate scheme but as far as I'm aware that's very much a thing of the past now.

 

[Mtoto]

Have sworn many times never to fly with them again, but keep going back because my boss won't pay scheduled fares when the alternative is practically free air travel.

Have been diverted to Stansted instead of Gatwick in mid-air, refused check-in when I arrived within the time-limit etc etc, all the usual stuff. But I have to come back from Dublin to Gatwick on March 1, and at the moment the fare is showing on the website as 0.20 euros.

A no-brainer for the accountants. At least if I die, I'll die cheaply.

 

[Zeitgeist]

Just been chatting to a mate of mine who used to do a lot of work for Ryanair, apparently C4 next Monday have a dispatches special about Crew falling asleep on flights and incidents that have been happening there over the last year or so.

Some cabin crew that helped make the film have seen it already, and by all accounts its shocking stuff, the sort of thing that will really make you think about flying with them.

I've always thought that Ryanair have an excellent reputation for safety, but this programme looks like compulsive viewing.

Didn't C4 do a similar report about BA cabin crew drinking whilst down route some years ago? The fact that the person making the show chose to not report it during her time as a BA employee, but as soon as she became an employee of C4, expressed her shock horror, smacks of oportunism to further her career as an investigative reporter. I suspect this could be something similar. I suspect there's a lot of pissed off former and present employees. Not so long ago they threatened to discipline any employee who was caught charging their mobile phone at work! As few Ryanair flights would be over two hours, the oportunity to fall asleep would be limited I would have thought?

They've had lots of bad press of late. They really scored an own goal after they tried to charge that guy for the wheelchair. (Rightly so). Ryanair also have a reputation for lousy aftercare when things don't go to plan. No fun when you're stuck at some remote foreign airfield, miles from the city it claims to serve. Stlll, they've given many the chance to travel by air when before it was the exclusive preserve of the rich. In Canada it still is that on the more rural routes. A full priced one way for an hour and half flight costing the equivalent of nearly TWO HUNDRED pounds!

 

[H block]

I honestly believe that if its your intention to do so, you could make a program making absolutely any organisation look unprofessional or incompetent. I won't stop flying with them.

It does help if they stay awake.especially on short haul.

 

[H block]

Mind you if they are that badly paid and have to do evening jobs like bar work then is it any wonder