Originally Posted by
ajax
That is exactly my point.
O'Leary is multiple-counting when he's talking about Ryanair's passengers. 64 million people may have flown Ryanair last year, but a high proportion of those 64 million people flew Ryanair more than once.
If you count up all the times a person watched the BBC last year (counting each viewing as a separate person as O'Leary is counting each passenger flown as a separate person) in the same way, you'd have billions of people.
O'Leary is wrong.
Oh no he's not ......... as your point proves his general point is that in spite of some people's comments people that fly Ryan like it so much they do so repeatedly.
We all owe him a lot.
I've never flown with them but admire their success. They must be doing something right, but they are not fro me. But they have helped me by creating an industry that is eve more mindful of value. His big issue will be if ever (g*d forbid) there is an incident. This could quickly bring the airline down as the issue will be either a mechanical / maintenenace issue or a human error and either way the scrutiny of his money saving programmes will be very close and highly judgemental.
Just because he can be irritating we shouldn't misjudge his acuman or the success of his product.^