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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8Poor ol O'Leary is now upset that protestors delayed Ruinair planes at Stansted London Airport - BBC had words from a woman who was upset to have missed her Da's Memorial Rosary (nasty, cruel, Plane Stupid demonstrators!), but it was Ruinair who cancelled instead of delaying the flights, & Government policies of cheap fuel for airlines which make it cheaper to fly than to use the more relaxed train-&-ferry option to Ireland.
O Leary may be a pain in the hole but he is the only public figure in Ireland who actually criticises the government for incompetence and corruption. Yeah he's anti union and wants to squeeze every last drop of life blood from every worker and every passenger but he is the head of an airline so that comes as no surprise. I remember Aer lingus charging 200 or 300 quid to travel to London before there was competition. They had a monopoly with BA and price fixed with the approval of the government. In those days we got the ferry alright, cos no-one could afford to fly. And he is right about the Aer lingus board, they are a bunch of useless muppets, appointed by gangsters in chief Ahearn and Cowen who are on the board as a political favour rather than because its good for the company, or god forbid, its passengers. These assholes are paid tens of thousands of Euro a year to do nothing BY YOU. So O Leary is the messenger on this one. If your'e waiting on RTE or the Times to tell you about these FF rackets you'll be waiting.
Dermot Mannion said that Ryan Air buying Aer Lingus would be like Manchester United buying Liverpool and expecting to make one team. That is the level of intelligence in Aer Lingus. Which government twit appointed mannion and his other chums to their fat parasitical positions?
It would be more like Manchester United taking over Cork City, if we are to use a genuinely comparative model. That is, Mr Mannion, Manchester United being a well run, profitable firm like Ryan Air and Aer Lingus being a bunch of over-paid incompetents, running their firm through the last phases of bankruptcy while claiming large salaries and expenses.
O'leary and his management team are where they are because they have consistently shown themselves capable of running an airling company. Sharman, Mannion et al are where they are because they were given the jobs with a nod and a wink by government chums. Shoot them? You must be joking. Bullets are too expensive. They should be choked.... slowly!
Aer Lingus Wasters:
John Sharman, Dermot Mannion, Ivor Fitzpatrick, Sean Fitzpatrick, Danuta Gray, Francis Hackett, Michael Johns, Anne Mills, Thomas Moran, Chris Wall, Thomas Corcoran
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I wasn't aware that Michael O'leary was an Indymedia reader - and now contributor. What a shameless egotist and slightly desperate Chief Executive.
How about all that fuel you bought forward at top prices, there Mickey?
Renationalise now - to keep this currently cheap asset out the hands of this anti union monopolist.
I don't think MOL gives much thought to the view of those on the left. We don't run things or make any decisions which affect him or his airline. The point we are making here is that attacking him when the big con is being played elsewhere on us is counterproductive and hardly conducive to developing a better understanding of how the Irish economy, including aer lingus, is mismanaged by a bunch or moronic kleptomniacs around FF.
PS Bazooka, I cannot understand why anyone would recommend that Aer Lingus should be renationalized. Already the state is looking at bankruptcy because of the incompetence, corruption and greed of our political, banking and business elites. If the choices are now between public service paycuts, cuts in education and health etc then why would you possibly suggest taking on more loss making enterprises like aer lingus. If its some gra you have for the poor aul workers in Aer lingus then it would be cheaper to scrap the airline and just pay them every week. It would save a fortune. People seem to have some sentimental attachment to the 'national carrier'. Please. Its an airline, the rest is just its advertising ringing around in your head. And this guff about us being an island and being cut off and having only one carrier and a monopoly at that...thats how it was when Aer lingus was the monopoly and charged a fortune and had to be subsidized aswell. Should the government get into selling petrol, like a state petrol chain so as to prevent price cartels? cos there is a price cartel in petrol right now. How about state farms, you know, to prevent the corporations charging us too much for food? I don't get it when otherwise intelligent political people come out with this shite about Aer Lingus. I don't like the yellow pack business model of low wages, poor conditions and rip offs. Ryanair are total scammers on this level but people vote with their wallets and let the man (or woman) who has chosen the more expensive airline ticket and has never flown ryanair... Persoanly i can't stand flying ryanair and avoid it as much as possible, the lotto tickets, the second hand watches, its creepy. But Aer lingus is crap too. Awful food, surly staff and a class pyramid onboard that can only have evolved from a state run enterprise. When the choice is between crooks like o leary and crooks like FF I know who Im flying with.
the above post is addressed to the wrong person
A "Workers' Solution" ????
All most Irish workers do is blab about Man U or Arsenal etc. all day and look at Big Brother all night.....and that's it.
The Workers should attend to their Shovels and Lathes and Hammers and and let the experts run the organizations.
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