Grr...First with Lufthansa, and now Alitalia?!?!Maybe because Ryanair has opened a new base at Bergamo airport in Milan.http://www.airliners.net/open.file/292170/M/Auf Wiedersehen, Arrivederchi Ryanair

I don't know why Ryanair are being bashed so much... At the moment they are generating more money than any European airline!John/Meridianhttp://www.iol.ie/~shamrockstudios/Signatu...7/MASigLeft.jpg

Can you believe that a friend of mine got a ryanair flight From London to Dublin for

well,they often say you pay for security...I'm not saying they're very unsafe though,but I have read some thingq on PPRUNE...

Not sure I get what you mean, Seba. Sorry mate. Do you mean a low price compromises the odds on whether you'll make it to your destination in one piece?Cheers,Simon.

I'll give you an example:a Ryanair 737 that had departed Belfast, got a pretty serious failure (don't recall which one though) in-flight, just having entered French airspace. Instead of diverting to the nearest suitable enroute alternate,they chose to go back to Belfast as they have a maintenance unit over there. It would save them precious time and also a lot of money. They crossed back the channel all the way back to BelfastI don't wanna state ryanair is unsafe,I only believe that safety and money are two things that go hand in hand with each-other

Never heard anything about that... But if the failure wasn't too serious and allowed the travel back to Belfast then I don't see any problems with that?John/Meridianhttp://www.iol.ie/~shamrockstudios/Signatu...7/MASigLeft.jpg

One example that was in the Swedish news about two months ago was a former airline captain from one of the budget airlines (I don