Ryanair Dumps Passengers on Wrong Island — Doesn’t Care
by Scott Carmichael
www.Gadling.com
A planeload of passengers on a Ryanair flight from the UK to Lanzarote (one of the Spanish Canary Islands) learned the hard way that low cost carriers carry a hidden price.
Instead of landing in Lanzarote, the plane landed in Fuerteventura (about 30 miles from their intended destination).
Bad weather had forced the plane to divert, but usually when a plane has to divert, a normal airline takes care of its customers.
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Ohio Aviation Hero’s Remains Found?
by Kristina Smith Horn
CentralOhio.com
Talented, handsome and famous, Lt. Col. Jack Zimmerman seemed indestructible. The Fremont native, who logged more than two million miles in flight, escaped a fiery plane crash in Pittsburgh with only a few scrapes and bruises.
He flew FBI agents to nab notorious kidnapper and thug Alvin “Creepy” Karpis — the FBI’s “Public Enemy No. 1″ — and won the gratitude of bureau director J. Edgar Hoover. He braved freezing wind, rain and snow in an open cockpit to deliver mail by plane. He flew missions for the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II in Northern Europe.
But the rough, icy waters of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, northeast of Maine, proved too much for the “Million Miler” during his final mission on Nov. 2, 1942. Zimmerman’s amphibious plane capsized, drowning him and four others. Nearly 67 years later, Zimmerman’s body may finally be laid to rest.
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A Perfect Match: Should United Acquire Ryanair?
by Sarah Lyall
The New York Times
LONDON — Michael O’Leary, chief executive of the European budget airline Ryanair, was discussing his new scheme to charge passengers to go to the bathroom.
Most passengers — the “discretionary toilet visitors,” as he calls them — would eventually forgo in-flight bathroom use altogether, he predicted. Which is good, because he would also like to reduce the number of bathrooms per plane, to one.
What if the plane were stricken by some nasty, effluent illness, like food poisoning?
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