Saturday - September 04, 2010
Remember The Grace L. Ferguson Airline and Storm Door Company? Not exactly the same but ….
Not much posting from me this wkend unless back early enough Sunday ....
Not even supposed to be here this late but ride is held up and I just HAD to get this one in.
It reminds me that this is after all, Barking Moonbats, right? Trust me, read the whole thing at the link. BTW ... this airline doesn’t fly in the USA I hope.
Ppl use it cos it’s supposed to be dirt cheap. Hmm. Dirt and cheap. About sums it up. Unless forced to, and based on what ppl who have flown with this airline say about it, there’s no way in hell I’d ever fly with this group even if it were free.
As you will read, the head guy here once suggested that making passengers pay to use the john was a good idea and he tried to push for it.
Gives you some idea of what’s out there flying these days. Sure, I can understand no frills and budgets etc. But this guy is beyond the pale. Here’s his latest suggestion making news here. Although one person in comments has suggested he isn’t serious but trying to get free advertising. And I guess he is.
Let stewardesses land the plane in a crisis, says Ryanair boss: Airline wants to ditch co-pilots
By Sean Poulter
Ryanair’s ever-controversial boss has called for the second pilot to be dumped from the flight deck of aircraft to save money.
Michael O’Leary suggested air stewardesses could be trained to take over and land the plane in the event of a crisis.
The idea is the latest in a long line of cash-saving wheezes from the budget airline boss who once suggested, apparently seriously, that aircraft could fly with standing-only areas for passengers.
Mr O’Leary suggested ripping up the existing safety regime in a magazine interview.
‘Why does every plane have two pilots? Really, you only need one pilot,’ he said.
Suggesting flying a plane was little more difficult than playing a computer game, he said: ‘Let’s take out the second pilot. Let the bloody computer fly it.’
Asked what would happen if the single pilot suffered a heart attack, he said one of the cabin crew would be trained to land a plane.
‘If the pilot has an emergency, he rings the bell, he calls her in. She could take over,’ he told Bloomberg BusinessWeek.
But the idea was immediately ridiculed as a dangerous fantasy by pilots.
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on 09/04/2010 at 08:59 AM
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