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🗓️ 1 April 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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0:00.0 | Despite its incredible name, Ryanair gets a lot of hate online. |
0:11.0 | The best way to describe Ryanair is like that X that you shouldn't go. hate online. |
0:18.0 | The best way to describe Ryanair is like that X that you shouldn't go back to, but you just |
0:16.3 | know what you're going to get when you go back. |
0:19.1 | Ryan Air is a budget airline based in Europe, and it's known for its super cheap flights, some of which an a flown Ryanair you cannot make that call. It's also known for cramming passengers into tight seats and for |
0:36.7 | charging travelers extra for nearly everything like water, seat assignments, and baggage. |
0:43.0 | Passing by the dreaded Ryanair Carry On Checker, |
0:46.0 | all four of us have oversized bags. |
0:50.0 | Tensions are high. |
0:52.0 | I think for a lot of people who are flying, they're used to this idea that flying is, you know, |
0:56.7 | the customers first, you get maybe your free snack or your free drink, you, you know, |
1:01.5 | get treated as like a client. |
1:03.0 | That's our colleague Benjamin Katz, who covers the airline industry. |
1:07.0 | He recently interviewed Ryanair CEO, Michael O'Leary. |
1:11.0 | Ben says that O'Leary doesn't see customers the way most |
1:15.5 | airlines CEOs do. He was very distinct in saying that like we don't treat our |
1:21.2 | customers like yes, you know we give them a seat to fly on and that's the agreement |
1:26.9 | O'Leary has often said that he doesn't really care what customers think. |
1:30.9 | Is the customer always right? No, the customer is nearly always wrong. |
1:34.0 | And didn't he also say at one point that people who forget their boarding passes are idiots? |
1:40.0 | Oh, yeah, I mean he refers to customers as idiots a lot to you |
1:44.4 | refers to you know corporate partners as as idiots as well. |
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