Union-busting airline Ryanair will shortly be allowing passengers to make mobile phone calls from its planes, at a cost of £3 a minute.
"I have no patience with the Luddite approach that says people don't want to use their mobile phones in-flight," [said Ryanair duce Michael O'Leary]. "You don't take a flight to contemplate your life in silence. Our services are not cathedral-like sanctuaries. Anyone who looks like sleeping, we wake them up to sell them things".
"I'm on the plane", commented an unnamed passenger.
I thought that last sentence in the quote was a joke, but no. It's completely accurate, but I'm amazed he said it.
ReplyDeleteCompletely agree with Ray! I thought it was an Onion piece. I was further disturbed when I opened up the link and found further shitty excuses: "We will be encouraging our passengers to make as many calls as possible because that will lower our costs and boost our revenues."
ReplyDeleteFuckin' hell. I've never taken Ryanair and I don't fancy starting. One maybe positive thing I can think of that takes the edge off is that generally Ryanair flights are for short, inter-European flights, right? It's not like you're gonna board an 8-10 hour international flight with a bunch of twats yapping on their mobiles, correct?
Michael O'Leary is an astonishingly repulsive individual. His contempt for Ryanair's customers is never-ending, though in being so awful to them he is treating them in the same way as everyone else he interacts with.
ReplyDeleteI think he is promising to bring in transatlantic flights, memorably promising that first class would feature "beds and blowjobs".
He really is a blast of fetid air.
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