Mick the Dick From Dublin Mouths Off Again

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Mick the Dick From Dublin Mouths Off Again

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The most obnoxious buttplug in all of aviation now wants to get rid of the cojo, let the computer fly the airplane, and train stewardesses, as they are still called over there, to take over if the captain has a heart attack.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/bre ... ing14.html

Quelle peckerhead.
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Ogee wrote:The most obnoxious buttplug in all of aviation now wants to get rid of the cojo, let the computer fly the airplane, and train stewardesses, as they are still called over there, to take over if the captain has a heart attack.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/bre ... ing14.html

Quelle peckerhead.

Better to dump the stu, and install vending machines... :smt040
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The guy certainly knows how to wag the dog. More free press for Ryanair.
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the guy is retarded.
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yyz monkey wrote:The guy certainly knows how to wag the dog. More free press for Ryanair.
Exactly. The guy may be a asshole, but he's a marketing genius. And I think a lot of people secretly admire him for being such an outspoken, obnoxious bastard in the same way that people in Africa have a habit of voting for thugs ("big man syndrome").
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Michael O'leary's new low

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ilots.html

What else will this guy do to save a buck
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Let's see if this thread gets moved.
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bravowhiskey wrote:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ilots.html

What else will this guy do to save a buck
He's already saving millions with these insane ideas. Free advertising for Ryanair every few months just by opening his mouth? Priceless.
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Unless you believe that having an IQ less than your waist size is a demographic for Ryanair passengers, I don't see how you could characterize this as a brilliant marketing move. The average chimpanzee would think, "if this guy is proposing this, what is he pulling off that we don't know about". Not sure how advocating FA's flying when the captain conks out and the Rottweiler is licking his bum is going to fill seats.

Ryanair flys in the face of every academic claim about the intelligence and market supremacy of customers.
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I have a better idea.

Why not provide a 10% discount on the £5 tickets to any passenger holding a Student Pilot Permit or higher who would be willing to "Pinch Hit" in the event of a single-pilot incapacitation? This actually potentially increases the resources in the event of an emergency (because on any given flight you might have one Student Pilot, an Ultralight Instructor and even the occasionally 250 hour Commercial Pilot or ATP) and reduces the amount of unnecesary training to flight attendants, thereby allowing them to continue their primary duties of selling train and lottery tickets, bottles of water, snacks, etc. In fact, to remove one flight attendant at this moment would be unethical because of the momentary increased demand of liquor sales.

In fact, Ryanair may become the "airline of choice" of the weekend warrior crowd. Ever since the movie "Airplane," IAOPA members have been fantasizing at the thought. Here is their best chance!

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Do not fall into the English way of underestimating the genius of the Irish.
The British Empire was built by Scots and Irish.It was the English shopkeeper mentality that let it slide into obscurity.
Every other airline in the world is following his moves, closer than watching their own shares falling through the floor.
Flown United lately ?Guess who has caught the madness of charging people to check in bags@25 dollars a bag.
As one famous car builder said "Lead follow or get out of the way"
He is a business leader on the leading edge of one of the most successful Boeing franchises in Europe ,and when he steps into the North American market.He will give the other guys a shock.
What some see as madness, is pure fooking genius to those who sup Murphy's and Guiness :wink: :wink:
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Ogee wrote:advocating FA's flying when the captain conks out
Do you believe this guy is truly advocating this? If you do, there's a bridge in Brooklyn for sale. Come on, man, let's get serious, the notion is preposterous. He's just shooting off his mouth to get his name in the papers, and it's worked perfectly. Somebody once said, "All publicity is good publicity."
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2R wrote:Do not fall into the English way of underestimating the genius of the Irish.
The British Empire was built by Scots and Irish.It was the English shopkeeper mentality that let it slide into obscurity.
Every other airline in the world is following his moves, closer than watching their own shares falling through the floor.
Flown United lately ?Guess who has caught the madness of charging people to check in bags@25 dollars a bag.
As one famous car builder said "Lead follow or get out of the way"
He is a business leader on the leading edge of one of the most successful Boeing franchises in Europe ,and when he steps into the North American market.He will give the other guys a shock.
What some see as madness, is pure fooking genius to those who sup Murphy's and Guiness :wink: :wink:
2R. I am an Irishman. I can assure you that there is no Irish person alive who is more despised than Michael O'Leary by his own race. If he's a business leader, my arse is the Mona Lisa.

Every other airline isn't watching his moves. He gets away with what he does because he fills his airplanes with those devoid entirely of any sense of self esteem and will endure any indignity to avoid having to pay the high prices of the old unionized airlines or ride across the Irish Sea amidst a bunch of drunken pukers who they know they will be sitting beside once they make Holyhead and have to get on British Rail to get down to London.

But you are right about who built the British Empire. You did omit to mention that we also blew a fair bit of it up in the last fourty years. And rebuilt it, when the insurance companies paid out.
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I moved it. I couldn't be bothered to clean up all the language and figured there'd be a rage if I pulled it to do it later. So here it sits.
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Widow wrote:I moved it. I couldn't be bothered to clean up all the language and figured there'd be a rage if I pulled it to do it later. So here it sits.

Clean up "...all the language"? It's the same language that is in it now. This is an aviation forum, not Stockwell Day's church group. This post was about an absurd but surely serious statement by the head of one of Europe's worst airlines. If, as 2R says, North America is going to follow this cockroach's lead, then one crew cockpits is something that affects many people on this forum.

I'm afraid this is adios to AvCanada for me.
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Yeah right! NO ONE leaves Avcanada on the first try!

Cat Driver should start up an Avcanada cessation 12 step program for us.

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Ogee wrote: Clean up "...all the language"? It's the same language that is in it now.
Which people can get away with due to the disclaimer in the home page warning on the Misc/Political Debate/Humour Forum "THIS FORUM MAY BE FOUND OFFENSIVE TO SOME READERS. PLEASE DO NOT ENTER IF YOU ARE EASILY OFFENDED." which is not applicable to the other forums.
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As they say in Cork " Whale oil beef oct" :wink: :wink:

Did Stockwell not change his name to Doris ?
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It’s liberty for O'Leary to do what he's doing. I'll just use my liberty of never getting on one of his planes and take the sea route instead. After all I'm sure O'Leary's passengers will be doing the same, with the only difference being that I started off on the sea instead of ending up in it from a great height. LOL
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Ogee wrote:The most obnoxious buttplug in all of aviation.
Well said.
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Just a matter of time.
When the first auto-pilots where installed at one airline the Chief pilot was quoted as saying he wanted them to be coin operated,if the pilots he is paying to fly the plane want the autopilot to fly they should be paying the auto-pilot.
Anyone remember his name?
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/trave ... -year.html

Dozens of pilots falling sick in mid-air every year
Dozens of pilots a year are falling sick in mid-flight, the Daily Telegraph can disclose.

By David Millward, Transport Editor
Published: 8:00AM BST 18 Sep 2010
Cases of food poisoning, nausea, fainting have been reported to the Civil Aviation Authority by British-registered airlines.
In some cases, the incidents have led to the plane having to make an emergency landing.

The figures emerged within days of Michael O’Leary, the outspoken chief executive or Ryanair, suggesting that co-pilots should be used to serve tea and coffee during flights, because their services were not needed in the cockpit.
According to the CAA there were 32 occasions in which a pilot was incapacitated last year, 17 fewer than the previous year. In 2007 there were 39 instances.
Jim McAuslan, general secretary of the British Airline Pilots Association, said the statistics underlined the importance of maintaining the existing arrangements.
“These figures demonstrate to O’Leary that removing the co-pilot from the cockpit is an economy too far,” he said.
Although commercial pilots have a medical twice a year, this has not prevented a number of mid-air emergencies.
“You can’t land a plane without human intervention,” said Danny Fyne, editor of the pilots’ website PPRuNe. http://www.pprune.org/ “The plane has to be set at the right speed, the flaps have to be set for the approach.
“You might as well tell Michael O’Leary that the next time he goes into hospital he can get a nurse to do the operation because the surgeon is feeling under the weather.”
Ditching the co-pilot was particularly risky on the network used by Mr O’Leary’s own network, said David Reynolds, Balpa’s flight safety and security officer.
'Many of the smaller airports, especially in the Mediterranean area, are not equipped with the systems to allow for autopilot landings so flights to these locations – to which Ryanair and other operators fly – have to have two pilots.’’
On December 6 a pilot collapsed twice in the cockpit of a Boeing 747 and required oxygen after a suspected case of food poisoning.
Another case of food poisoning led to a flight having to make an emergency landing at Malaga on October 14. Toxic cabin fumes led to a pilot being taken ill – and subsequently collapsing as a plane descended just before landing at Gatwick.
Oxygen was also administered on several occasions during medical emergencies last year, with food poisoning emerging as one of the main causes of pilot sickness.
Sadiq Khan, Labour’s transport spokesman, said the CAA figures underlined that there were limits to where no-frills carriers could cut costs.
“These statistics show that co-pilots play a vital role in ensuring the safety of their passengers,” he said. “The budget airline model has proved very popular in Britain, but there are limits to the public’s appetite for 'no frills’ flying. It’s one thing to go without a meal, but compromising on safety is a step too far.”
Robert Gifford, Executive Director of the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety, added: “These figures show that co-pilots can be a real necessity on aircraft. Without a second person in the cockpit trained and able to fly the plane, any of these incidents could have led to loss of life and colossal impact on the safety reputation of commercial aviation.”
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It'll never happen. What will happen, though, is Michael O'Leary will be back in the media withother outragiousness.

Ryanair, by passengers carried, is the third largest airline in Europe. We've flown them a few times. Yes crap service. But, new airplanes, on time and dirt cheap. 250 airplanes in the fleet.

They are popular. My daughter flew from Oslo to Dublin for CAD50 return tax in. Nonstop. Should I have told her it was wrong and she should have paid $500 to fly on KLM or BA?

Four of us flew from Isere-Grenoble to London at Christmas for CAD400 return, tax in. That's not each, that's for a family of four. Parking for the week at Grenoble airport was $15. Should I have flown out of Geneva airport and paid $800 each?

Seat backs don't recline. No pitch. No magazines. No food. Big deal...two hour flight....we lived.

Fly on them during the week and count the number of business suits flying on them. Same goes for Easyjet. Affordable flying for business people that are not flying on expenses and pay out of pocket.

Sure, O'leary is a dick. But, he runs one of the most profitable airlines in Europe.

He's doing something right.
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It's pricks like O'Leary that drive down the pay for the pilots and engineers who actually do the work and make him the money. Low cost, no frills airlines are a big part of the blame for our shitty pay. They're enablers for the managers and owners suffering from (or enjoying) cheap prick syndrome.
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