Cheap at half the price
April 28th 2007 06:28
I’d never heard of Ryanair until my wife started checking out flights on the Net for when we go to the UK. Their current main page advertises fares from one English penny! Good grief. You have to ask, are all their pilots volunteers? Do the customers do their own catering as well as putting their own bags on board? Are there no stewardesses/air flight attendants?
Apparently not. Ryanair started way back in 1985 and, though it’s had some blips on the screen in its career, it’s barely looked back. Okay, it lost £20 million pound in 1990, and the Ryan family (who must have had a bit of cash behind them) invested a further $20 million to keep it afloat. Since then it’s progressed by leaps and bounds, beating the competition at their own game over and over.
I love the comment in their ‘history’ in which they say Ryanair was set up by the Ryan family with a share capital of just £1, and a staff of 25. They launched their first route on a 15-seater Bandeirante aircraft. Ryanair's first cabin crew recruits had to be less than 5ft. 2ins. tall in order to be able to operate in the tiny cabin of the aircraft. Hilarious.
It’s definitely an airline we’ll be looking into when we get to the UK. I’d love to pay a penny for flying to somewhere on the Continent. It would give me great joy!
Apparently not. Ryanair started way back in 1985 and, though it’s had some blips on the screen in its career, it’s barely looked back. Okay, it lost £20 million pound in 1990, and the Ryan family (who must have had a bit of cash behind them) invested a further $20 million to keep it afloat. Since then it’s progressed by leaps and bounds, beating the competition at their own game over and over.
I love the comment in their ‘history’ in which they say Ryanair was set up by the Ryan family with a share capital of just £1, and a staff of 25. They launched their first route on a 15-seater Bandeirante aircraft. Ryanair's first cabin crew recruits had to be less than 5ft. 2ins. tall in order to be able to operate in the tiny cabin of the aircraft. Hilarious.
It’s definitely an airline we’ll be looking into when we get to the UK. I’d love to pay a penny for flying to somewhere on the Continent. It would give me great joy!
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