Lot of angry Germans today.....RyanAir is on strike.
I glanced at N-TV this morning. It's felt in several European countries. You can figure near 55,000 passengers affected today in this one-day strike.
Driving discussion....pilots feel underpaid.
Out of the 55,000.....the vast number of folks are in Germany (near 42,000).
Hostility brewing? A lot of people made hotel plans and had a week of leave laid out with their boss. Maybe the airline can try to catch up over the weekend, but I suspect there are some fairly angry folks out there.
How RyanAir fits into the airline business? They've figured out a strategy of using minor airports and getting cut-rate deals, then paying the lowest amount of pay for pilots, aircrews, and support personnel. They've been on this trend for over 25 years. You can go and figure the normal cost of a Frankfurt to Rome flight, then go to RyanAir (especially two months out), and they will be 50-percent less on the ticket cost.
The negative? Virtually everything beyond the ticket has a cost factor. If you want a drink while on the 90-minute flight.....cough up three or four Euro for that Pepsi. When they say that you are landing in Rome....it's not exactly at the normal airport....it's the older airport that's another 15 minutes further out away from the city.
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