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http://www.bbc.com/news/business-42447475
https://www.ft.com/content/019f8bf0-c32 ... 783c270f51
https://www.thelocal.de/20171221/german ... air-strike
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-ryana ... KKBN1EF1VI
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/201 ... s-prepare/
...for some, the timing may be very inconvenient, but
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ns-airline
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ion-crisis
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ine-morals
Ryanair is much more than an airline – it’s a parable for our greedy times
Europe’s biggest carrier capitalises on the public’s worst instincts.
It exploits us and we protest, but we are complicit / "medeplichtig"...
O’Leary and his business are the dark side of Europe’s psyche:
in a kind of medieval morality tale,
we love what they do even as we acknowledge the dislikable way in which they do it.
We moan about stagnant pay
and then go online to buy cheap flights to the sun
subsidised by other people’s stagnant pay.
We are eagerly complicit in conduct we deplore.
We sustain a system that only works to our benefit in the immediate present.
We have sold our soul,
or at least other people’s secure jobs and decent wages, for serial holidays abroad.
O’Leary has tried to insist that any case involving Ryanair and its workers can only be heard in the Irish courts (the European court of justice intervened to stop him).
The company sues workers such as striking Spanish baggage handlers
while taking a minimalist approach to the airline’s own legal obligation to, say,
compensate passengers whose flights have been delayed.
It can do anything it likes, because we go on flying Ryanair.