The Mouth of the West Checking into Ryanair Flight FR118 at Dublin to London Gatwick the other evening I noticed a familiar face in the security line in front of me at Dublin Airport. It was none other than Michael O’Leary the outspoken Chief Executive of Ryanair, widely known as “The Mouth of t...

Vroiam sa scriu o insemnare lunga despre niste companii aeriene dar o sa ma limitez in a spune:   Toate zborurile Lufthansa din Bucuresti spre Munchen sau din Munchen spre Bucuresti au avut niste piloti plictisiti si stewarzi (de fapt cred ca au fost doar femei pana acum) prosti care vorbeau prost ...

Earlier this year I decided to ride the London Eye. It was busy - so busy that the line of people queueing to purchase tickets snaked out of the ticketing room and onto the street overlooking the Thames. In an attempt to manage the line, the Eye's management had constructed a queuing system using ba...

Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield were long-time friends and hippies when they established Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream. True to the hippie-dom of which they were a part back in 1978, their brand continues to be driven by a well-informed social and ecological conscience. Some months ago, Ben & Jer...

Admittedly it is a drum I keep on banging but this is important. In a perfect world, companies that annoy the public will be shunned and go down eventually but this does not happen. Airlines like British Airways, Virgin, Swiss are not reducing their fuel surcharges by enough. The same is true of the...

Filed under: Wings The three business-class-only airlines that flew out of the U.K. to New York (MaxJet, Eos and Silverjet) are all now history but the last outlier, Paris-based L'Avion is still around. For now. British Airways has snapped up the French all-business airline l'Avion for 54 million po...

Image by symphonysid via Flickr I'm heading over to Paris in a couple of weeks to attend the ICANN meeting. While I may have booked my hotel room ages ago I still haven't organised my flights. Flying from Dublin to Paris shouldn't be hard to organise as so many of the airlines serve the route. So ea...

What a Friday Line Up - Eddie and Naomi Fighting, Loads of Drugs and Various Fools Galore.. Enjoy, EDDIE GRIFFIN SUED FOR ASSAULT: Production manager claims comic beat him for booking his mother into a cheap hotel. *A production manager on the set of an Eddie Griffin pilot has filed a lawsuit claimi...

The St. Reatham One - 29 May 2008 The Celtic Sage has long cast a cold eye on the abusive behaviour of British Airways (BA) and the so called British Airports Authority (BAA) to the cattle (their expression is “self loading cargo�) who have to use their quasi monopolies which have been protected...

I want to declare upfront that I don’t like British Airways. Like most state protected monopolies they forgot who their customer was and engaged in cartel behaviour for many years with other state protected airlines to screw the customer with high fares and ridiculous conditions to protect their c...