Category Ryanair

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RYR – waiting for the other shoe to drop

Not gone unnoticed, Europe’s favourite airline announced last week Sept. 16th the cancellation of up to 50 flights per day until October 31th, affecting 315,000 passengers and its own wallet for up to €20m in compensation bill. Admittedly, this brilliant…

Captains of the Industry

CockpitSeeker celebrates today its 6th year anniversary! After 3 years of absence, our cartoonist is back in a color-blazing piece for the occasion: _”I wanted to try something more elaborated than usual by going satirical on European companies. Dialogue reflects…

Frontrunning: May 16

Small Planet Airlines : German AOC secured 3 days ago to fly for tour operators TUI and Thomas Cook, echoing controversial strike-breaking wet-lease with Norwegian. Soon more p2f in Germany (in the footsteps of Cockpit4U and Germania) ? Ryanair :…

Pilot training: Ryanair’s APCC

Following the pending MPL gutting (only the Spanish & French DGAC were against), and showcased only once in specialized media so far, another plan for the future of pilot training is emerging subsequently to a May 2015 meeting of the…

Ryanair – just doing it!

Last June 4th in Brussels was held “A Social agenda for transport”, a high-level Conference where John Horne laid bare aviation’s challenges once again, until… Today, we will confront facts yet again and see what this Michael Hickey is all…

Safety, begone!

Quoting Dominique Fouda, EASA‘s Head of Communication & Quality Department in summer 2014: “The fact that airlines make their personnel pay does not intervene in aviation safety regulation, as long as pilots are technically qualified” _source Today we will debunk…