Airline passengers ‘deserve everything they get’

YOUR front page (June 25) carries a by now familiar story of a Ryanair cancellation at Cork airport coupled with a lack of help from that company.

I find myself less and less in sympathy with the passengers.

What kind of eejit still flies with this airline? A story on page 7 of your issue of the same day says Which magazine has named Ryanair as the second-worst short-haul airline — citing baggage fees, staff and customer relations. But most of us knew this kind of thing already. Recently even a High Court judge criticised the airline.

Ryanair isn’t even cheap anymore, after all the add-ons. It doesn’t always take you where you want to go and that’s not counting an unscheduled stop at Ballykelly RAF base instead of Derry. If you wish to go to Barcelona, you land at Girona or Reus and pay for the onward road trip to Barcelona.

So from now on, please no more “shock horror” stories about the “poor passengers” on Ryanair.

Those who use that airline deserve everything they get.

Conor Lynch

Athol Street

Belfast