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Ryanair says air traffic failure is not acceptable

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15 pointsmomirlan10 comments

"Notorious tax dodger complains about public service not being reliable enough"

Our Ryanair flight was delayed by about eight hours the other day (unrelated to yesterday's outage), and they didn't even bother to apologise. I find that unacceptable, but they're monopolists, so we don't get to choose who to fly with. Perhaps the government should step in.

"Notoriously unreliable airline quick to find others' shortcomings unacceptable"

TBF, I remember reading that they have actually been the most solid airline since COVID, statistically. It's a bit of a fudge, because they achieve it by basically doing some unreasonable things (like not cancelling anything, even if delays get in double-digit hours); but they do top some stats. And most other airlines have sadly followed them in the race to the bottom in terms of economy comfort, while keeping their prices unreasonably high.

The whole sector is shit but I honestly don't know how it could ever be fixed.

I fly with them regularly, don't find them especially unreliable. Don't know why there is so much enmity for RyanAir on HN, would have thought they exemplified the "disruption" mentality of the SV crowd ;-)

Air traffic control is typically funded by charging airlines operating in their airspace a service fee. I don't know what the situation is in the UK but this isn't usually a public service funded by tax payers.

Also, I am very skeptical that politicians anywhere will choose to allocate additional funding to air traffic control over virtually anything else.

There are probably tons of memos to public officials saying "we need funding to shore up the system", which were of course ignored.

If they needed more funding, they could just charge airlines more?

Want a safe flight? That'll be an extra €50.

Per extremity.

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