What I learnt today

Michael O'Leary has some Neck. I didn't learn that today, that fact has been in the public domain for long enough. However I did learn about what he did in the wake of the Aer Lingus flights for a fiver fiasco, courtesy of this snippet from Sue Denham/pseudonym in today's Sunday Times:

Ryanair's Michael O'Leary couldn't wait to dump on Aer Lingus when it was forced to do a PR u-turn and honour the bookings of customers who had taken advantage of a pricing error to buy €5 tickets to New York. O'Leary dispatched a flight crew to Dublin airport carrying placards reading "champers for unhappy campers" to hand out flutes of champagne to passengers waiting to board an Aer Lingus flight. Unamused Aer Lingus staff called airport security who ordered Ryanair's photographer to delete all images as it breached Aer Lingus's copyright. Spoilsports.

Would have loved to see the photos. Just goes to show that the company who have brought us this:


... and who last August put this on their homepage to protest the introduction of strict anti-terror procedures:


...and who this February had to pay damages to Monsieur et Madame Sarkozy for this:


... have not changed one jot. Interestingly the Advertising Standards Authority dismissed complaints about the Martin McGuinness ad - topical humour was allowed to be topical humour.

Thanks to larryni.me.uk for the images.