Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Airlines in backlash over travel restrictions


Michael O'Leary, chief executive of Ryanair, has come down quite hard and also funny in his criticism of the UK government and airport authorities, including threatening to sue if they do not ease restrictions.

Should one of these terrorist acts succeed, that would quickly wipe away his smile, and ours. In that case, would he be surprised if we sued him and his company for the pressure they are exerting?

Does his reaction not indicate that his commitment to security is less than total and stops when business is impacted.

Onésimo Alvarez-Moro

See article:
A week after Britain said it had foiled a terrorist plot to blow up US-bound aircraft, the authorities face a backlash against a confusing array of security restrictions that have baffled passengers, upset pilots and drawn legal threats from one airline.

The world's busiest airports are now mostly free of the grim queues and cancelled flights that afflicted thousands of travellers last weekend, but there is no sign of a change to safety measures that Michael O'Leary, chief executive of Ryanair, Europe's biggest low-cost airline, yesterday described as "farcical" and "Keystone Cops-like".

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