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Ryanair do it again!
Sep 10th
Is there no end to Michael O’Leary’s shit stirring? He’s only gone and announced 4 flights a day from Belfast to London starting next month. This makes Aer Lingus’ job even harder. They’ll now be competing against three airlines with a head start on the Belfast – London route. Maybe Ryanair had planned this all along and it was their motivation behind trying to keep Aer Lingus in Shannon…
The Shannon – Heathrow Aer Lingus row
Sep 4th
Repost of a comment I posted here:
Right… I’m a business user of Shannon airport, so forgive me if I have a bias. Lots of people are saying that London is reasonably well served from Shannon by Ryanair, but “London” is a big place, and Ryanair’s main London airport (Stanstead) is actually half way to Scotland. The Gatwick link is a joke. One flight a day means no way to get in and out on the same day.
If you’re going on your summer holidays, and have all day (an hour to get into the city centre, and another 30 minutes to More >
India Picture post
Sep 4th
I was sent to Hyderabad in India on ‘04 to train some call centre staff and I forgot to take my camera, so I had to rely on my camera phone. This time it was a Nokia 6600 that could only snap 640×480, so the pictures aren’t the best. I passed through Dubai on the way there, so I got picures of the Irish pub (isn’t there one everywhere?) and the prizes for their sports car draw.
The little Auto-Rikshaws are a scream, but it’s no fun when you’re stuck in traffic beside a geriatric bus belching exhaust fumes in your face. The heat More >
New York Picture post…
Sep 3rd
I’m a total travel whore. One of the reasons I took my last job was because they asked me did I have a problem with business travel …. Unfortunately, they then stuck me in a sleepy south western German town for a month of “training”. It did get better. I’ve been up and down the west coast of the US, India, north Africa and all over Europe.
I usually remember to take a digital camera, but on my last trip, 24 hours in New York (I was in Washington DC too, but all I saw there was the inside of More >
