20 Reasons NOT to fly Ryanair

jonathan

The main causes of aircraft accidents are (I presume) 1. pilot error, 2. air traffic control error, 3. equipment failure and 4. bad luck (eg weather, terrorism, etc).

Ryanair can do nothing about 2 and 4 (nor can any other airline). They do control 1 and 3. What the ratio of type-1 accidents to type-3 accidents is I don’t know – perhaps someone else does – but the fact remains that Ryanair does not seem to suffer from either.

I would have to disagree with you there, Ryan Air captains are SOME of the best paid in the industry, and granted for new FO’s conditions are quite bad.

As well there training is top notch and they are flying some of the best aircraft out there which mitigates their workload a bit as well.

I have no concerns over there saftey rating IMHO.

It’s not true that Ryanair have had no accidents, there have been several, but there have been no fatalities.

It’s also true they have some very experienced flight crew, ex BA, ex RAF etc and in any case they all have to pass stringent criteria as set by the CAA with regular checks etc.

The reason “pilot error” is so often shown as a cause of accidents is that the airline will often try and first blame the pilot since this shifts some of the blame from them.

If you recall two recent incidents, the BA 777 landing short of the runway and the Airbus in the Hudson River landing incident, one of the first things you heard being asked was, “was it pilot error” and you did not hear BA immediately denying it and standing by the pilot. This only happened in both cases, when it was shown to be something else that caused the crash and the pilots were being regarded as heroes.

In reality aircraft accidents are very rarely down to just one event but due to a series of events that lead up to the final incident.

In the AF accident over the Southern Atlantic, it was not just the thunderstorm. Other aircraft passed by safely before and after. As far as we know, it was a combination of weather, pitot tubes icing up and weather radar, which was on a lower setting and saw the smaller storm, but not the larger one behind it.

I think we have to be careful before accusing an airline of being unsafe, even if that is the perception, it is not necessarily the fact. I will not fly Ryanair because I don’t like their policies, small seats and legroom etc. I’m far happier paying a bit more for more comfort, extra baggage allowance, no check in hassles etc. On the other hand, if I was stuck somewhere and needed to get back in a hurry and the only option was Ryanair, I’d most probably fly with them.

I only flew RyanAir once and it was enough to convince me that it should continue as an airline simply because the ghastly people that fly with them would otherwise be on the airlines I use.

I avoid Ryanair ‘at all cost’ & know many people who think the same.

We have no problem with Easyjet.

Apart from treating their customers like ‘cattle, It is their blatant disregard for ‘customer care’. A flight can be cancelled & it is either ‘money back’ or next available flight which may not be for 3 or 4 days.

I’ve known them to cancel flights & claim ‘weather constraints’ & low & behold, FlyBe operate without a problem.

‘Treat your customers like fools, and they’ll take their custom elsewhere’.

My butler refuses to fly RyanAir. Not that he thinks them dangerous, you understand; merely that he has a prejudice about not being treated as a person. He’s not too keen on Easyjet, either, for much the same reason.

My own view entirely. And shared by my junior rose-bush leaf polisher and aphid operator (who, of course sleeps in a perfectly serviceable cardboard box in the stables and wouldn’t be seen dead in a RyanAir check-in queue).

If you’re travelling…

1. On your own.
2. With hand baggage only; and MOST IMPORTANTLY
3. On a route not covered by any other airline.

Then they’ll suffice. To give them one notch of credit- they are very punctual.