Jesus, I’d be terrified.

AA is in bankruptcy and they got a court to throw out the pilots union contract so the pilots are angry. They are causing a whole bunch of problems/delays by making sure they write up every maintenance issue to get back at management.

Xadovan, yes they also mentioned as well.

They have got new planes orderd from Airbus and Boeing.

http://travel.usatoday.com/flights/post/2011/07/american-airlines-jet-order/177673/1

Xadovan, the other side of that story is that the pilots say the maintenance issues are genuine and caused by cutbacks. They have factual data to prove it. AA is trying to fool passengers into thinking this is all driven by a few disgruntled pilots, but I know who I’d believe.

Brilliant!

do you know Francie Rafferty???

Do you know the five lamps bunty??

who cares about the seats, as long as the engines stay bolted tight ya will be grand. a rocking chair might relive the boredom somewhat.

by the way, Ryanair, for all their fault’s, have the newest fleet of aircraft of any European carrier. well done Micky

It’s a pity when you present a fact, an indisputable fact and it gets red thumbed against what is an inaccurate statement. I invite any of the red thumbs to contradict me and tell me I’m wrong.

The Rome incident which is detailed here – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryanair_Flight_4102 – was a birdstrike. There were some minor injuries of some passengers and crew but nothing serious. Yes, the aircraft was written off due to damage to the engines from the bird strike. Although technically a crash most people understand a crash to mean something more serious than this resulting in deaths or serious injury. Also, with a bird strike such as this, it is not really either the pilot or the airline’s fault so to imply, as you do, that it reflects badly on their safety record is a bit unfair.

such an ignorant reply. Whatever about Ryanairs customer service their safety record is second to none.

Are you talking about the emergency landings in Spain? Why don’t you educate yourself about the incidents rather than form an opinion based on tabloid headlines. They weren’t the only airline that day declaring emergency landings due to the Spanish Aircraft control prioritizing their own planes(Iberia) in Madrid. Also both the spanish and irish aviation authorities investigated and found ryanair to have done everything by the book(including having the correct amount of fuel on board.

Ryanair have probably the most amount of take offs in europe every day of the year and yet not one crash. They have probably the best safety record in the world.

But hey, you couldnt miss an opportunity to bash one of Irelands greatest success stories.

Eh Jason! AA are one of the better US carriers!

Not saying a lot considering the standard of US carriers is pretty poor compared to European & MiddleEast/Asian standards. Best US carrier I’ve flown with was Southwest, Friendly staff and great prices! :)

Delta taken that award hands down

Delta. Yeh, so long as you’re white.

Here you are Sean, go and educate yourself instead of appearing foolish. The following website profiles about 10% of the daily worldwide aircraft ‘incidents’ , now bare in mind Ryanair are one of the worlds largest airlines so they are bound to have more recorded incidents than say Aer Lingus, research Ryanair’s aircraft fleet, they have one of the youngest in the business with an average aircraft age of 4.5yrs compared to 12yrs for British Airways and KLM. http://www.avherald.com

Ignore the “emergency landing” headlines. Most of the time (as is the case here) they are mere precautionary landings! Better safe then sorry and all that!

sorry i was talking about aa not ryanair….either getting the red thumbs for that or for my fear of flying

wow somebody has a chip on their shoulder, did they turn you down for a job or something?

To keep you happy and allow you to move on with your life as you seem to have trouble doing so, I would like to rephrase my original comment to be:

Whatever about Ryanairs customer service their safety record HAS TO BE ONE OF THE BEST IN THE WORLD….
Ryanair have probably the most amount of take offs in europe every day of the year and yet not one SERIOUS crash….

Research says a minimum of 30% of the journals readers prefer to convince themselves of their own pessimistic delusion rather than the facts presented in the story

What thinking?