Minister Joan Burton TD.Department of Social Protection in Dublin has been contacted twice and still no reply.
As we all know,Ryanair CHIEF is U.S David Bonderman ''the hypocrite'' but Ryanair is registered as an Irish company and the Irish government must act.
RyanairDontCare Campaign and i am sure,Pilots at Ryanair want answers regarding the treatment of one of their colleagues ''Real Important Pilot'' PAUL RIDGARD at the hands of Ryanair Bully Boy Management.Many issues regarding employment of pilots and cabin crew need to be looked at by the Irish Government.
Joan Burton,lives are at stake her and if your not the person in authority to deal with these issues,pass them on to whoever is.
We call on Ryanair Pilots and cabin crew not to be intimidated by Ryanair and contact the Irish Government below.
joan.burton@oireachtas.ie
Below is the correspondence that was sent to RyanairDontCare Campaign which was also posted of many aviation sites 7 weeks ago,but sadly ''all posts were taken down''....NOT HERE THOUGHT...
Dear Joan Burton,
This is not the first time i have contacted you regarding Ryanair.
I do understand Irish government workers are very busy in dealing with many issues that involve Ireland.
Ryanair Ms Burton is a Irish issue that we at RyanairDontCare Campaign feel your government must deal with.
The Irish government have never contacted me regarding the abuse Ryanair are guilty of to so many young students wishing to be Cabin Crew,
Maybe you will listen to a present Pilot,a captain of 4 years at Ryanair who has contacted me a few weeks ago.
I have send information to the IAA but do not have faith in this Authority.
I do hope you will look at this email and action is took.Lives are at risk and the Irish government must act.
Thank you for your time.
Kindest regards
John Foley
RyanairDontCare Campaign...
This was the email, trying to get out to the press, but of course there is nobody interested,
I think, that indeed this can have tomorrows headlines if they want....
maybe you can forward this to the people dealing with this incident.
have you had a look at repa, do you see what kind of mess it is?
regards,
peter
Ryanair Pilots a ticking time bomb, SUICIDE Firstofficer Paul Ridgard
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am a captain, working for Ryanair over the last .... years. I am based in .... and have been working out of base multiple times. I have seen a lot from this company and i have noted that there are serious dangerous things going on in this company.
There is a very high level of stress and fatigue The pilots are living in continuous fear, scared to speak up, cause off getting fired. We have no union, and a lot of pilots are forced on a (illegal) free-lance contract, which can be canceled anytime, even after 5 years of duty.
There are multiple things going on in this company that will get headlines on tomorrows newspapers.
most of the pilots are a ticking time bomb... can not cope with the high stress level, sleeping during flights and are not able to perform 100% when necessary.
there are multiple things like (quick example) the incident on 12/04/2009. where a ryanair flight landed on the taxiway in CAG, instead of the runway.
We also had people landing with the wrong flaps settings(very high speed approaches), and people taking off in the wrong configuration...
I hope you understand that is a big safety issue, and one day this will lead into something else....
Lately, a first officer in Liverpool committed suicide,
notice from RYR to the pilots:
PAUL RIDGARD RIP
The funeral of Paul Ridgard will take place at 12:30 on Wednesday June 15th at
St. Werburgh's Church
Church Street
Spondon
Derby DE21 7LL.
All his former colleagues are welcome.
Nobody is aware of the real story,
That this guy, already asked RYR multiple times to have unpaid leave to cope with his problems.
He was divorced, had a 9 years old kid.
After his father died, ryanair forced him to work (as i heard) on his fathers funeral.
Due to this big loss in the family, his mother got really depressed.
He asked RYR to get unpaid leave, but again this was denied. He was dealing with a lot of stress, and i can imagine that someone in his position wouldn't be fit to fly.
He was scared to loose his job, not able to support his family again. and tried to cope with the problems.
Recently, Paul was doing his command upgrade. This was something he was focusing on.
Meanwhile walking up to the aircraft the Base Training Captain, who was examining his flight, just told him; '' yeah paul, between you and me, we can do this formal flight, but i already know the outcome, you will fail, cause i have been told by Ryanair (tony Owen, head of training) to fail you, and you will never get your command.''
together with all other things above, RYR working against him in all aspects, Paul got home
and committed suicide. The company was aware of his situation, an denied any help.
This is just one of the examples, of course, nobody talks about it.
I have a lot of other colleagues, first officers as well captains, who can not deal with the company stress no more.
Always living in fear; Ryanair can end your contract anytime. Furthermore, its not possible to build up any social life. RYR often changes you around all bases, and your ''home base'' can be changed anytime. This gives a lot of stress for people with a family, and having i.e. a mortgage on a house. Also the aggressive business strategy of RYR includes closing bases from day to day, just to force the government to deal with RYR's demands.
lately they transferred all Pilots from the Marseille base. They are all totally Fu#@, they were also FORCED to take a 30% pay cut. take it or leave it.
You can image, how they feel, having everything build up in Marseille, and now leaving to another base, with a forced pay cut, not being able to fund all monthly expenses no more, not being home with the family.
TICK, TACK, TICK, TACK.
Another thing is that a lot of pilots are flying out of base,
To get to your destination base for that working week, you have to travel around the whole ryanair network. To get from italy, to i.e. Germany, you have to travel via Denmark and you will be busy two days longer, to get to your work, and to get back from. RYANAIR DOESNT COUNT THESE TRAVELS AS DUTY TIME. This ends up in people stressing around from a to b. to get there in time. often you end up on your destination in the end of evening. Getting in your hotel around twelve, and asleep around 1. thereafter you have to get up at 4.15 to start with your early flights.
I think we agree that an 3 hours sleep is not enough to have the responsibility of four flights x 189 passengers.
Again, Ryanair, doesn't count this as official duty time. But on the pilot roster this comes up as a new temporarily out of base station. how you get there is your own problem.
By JAA avation LAW, this IS counted as duty time. But, probably RYR made a deal, and until now nobody is looking at this... and meanwhile this illegal rostering is going on and on... bringing more fatigue among the pilots. TICK TACK TICK TACK
90% of the 25min turnarounds a a lie, and we lie on the paper, just not to get questioned by the company.
Meanwhile, 99% percent of the pilots want a union. But RYR strategically makes sure we can not get one. Last time they 'freezed'' all UK bases, nobody in and out. and they told all the FirstOfficers that they wouldn't never get their command upgrade if there came a Union.
I don't know the exact figures, but to get a union u need the majority of all pilots to vote for a union. RYR at this time hired new pilots, and they offered them a contract and only a job, if they would sign on forehand to be against a union. in this smart case it wasn't possible to get a union.
Everybody who speaks about any union, just gets fired...that's the culture and the fact that is there right now...in this company.
we just have to see, if this ''awarded'' company will succeed in the future.
From the inside, i can tell you that a lot of pilots are leaving.
Air Dubai, approached RYR on a gentlemen s basis, to warn them that a couple of hundred pilots are busy with the selection process at fly Dubai and they have taken already a lot of them.
Also already a 100 pilots left to emirates.
there was a captain who was off the full month off April. The 1st of may, crew control called the captain cause he was late and thereafter didn't show up for work. he disappeared, left the company with no notice, and got already a job in Qatar. He just treated the company, as the company did with him.
- RYR announced a WET LEASE with other companies, cause they don't have crew to operate their flights this summer.
- and yes it is true what they say....
The only thing we get form the company is a cup of warm water.... we have to bring our own instant coffee... to make our coffee.....
If you would like to have any further information, feel free to email me.
If you are interested about the success of RYR... below the article of how ryanair deals with their daily operation, also with avoiding paying a lot of taxes.
Ryanair's skyrocketing success: flying on thin air? An in-depth analysis of Ryanair's business model.
www.air-scoop.com/.../In-Depth-Analysis-Ryanair-Business-Model-Air-Scoop-Nov2010.pdf
regards,
I think, that indeed this can have tomorrows headlines if they want....
maybe you can forward this to the people dealing with this incident.
have you had a look at repa, do you see what kind of mess it is?
regards,
peter
Ryanair Pilots a ticking time bomb, SUICIDE Firstofficer Paul Ridgard
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am a captain, working for Ryanair over the last .... years. I am based in .... and have been working out of base multiple times. I have seen a lot from this company and i have noted that there are serious dangerous things going on in this company.
There is a very high level of stress and fatigue The pilots are living in continuous fear, scared to speak up, cause off getting fired. We have no union, and a lot of pilots are forced on a (illegal) free-lance contract, which can be canceled anytime, even after 5 years of duty.
There are multiple things going on in this company that will get headlines on tomorrows newspapers.
most of the pilots are a ticking time bomb... can not cope with the high stress level, sleeping during flights and are not able to perform 100% when necessary.
there are multiple things like (quick example) the incident on 12/04/2009. where a ryanair flight landed on the taxiway in CAG, instead of the runway.
We also had people landing with the wrong flaps settings(very high speed approaches), and people taking off in the wrong configuration...
I hope you understand that is a big safety issue, and one day this will lead into something else....
Lately, a first officer in Liverpool committed suicide,
notice from RYR to the pilots:
PAUL RIDGARD RIP
The funeral of Paul Ridgard will take place at 12:30 on Wednesday June 15th at
St. Werburgh's Church
Church Street
Spondon
Derby DE21 7LL.
All his former colleagues are welcome.
Nobody is aware of the real story,
That this guy, already asked RYR multiple times to have unpaid leave to cope with his problems.
He was divorced, had a 9 years old kid.
After his father died, ryanair forced him to work (as i heard) on his fathers funeral.
Due to this big loss in the family, his mother got really depressed.
He asked RYR to get unpaid leave, but again this was denied. He was dealing with a lot of stress, and i can imagine that someone in his position wouldn't be fit to fly.
He was scared to loose his job, not able to support his family again. and tried to cope with the problems.
Recently, Paul was doing his command upgrade. This was something he was focusing on.
Meanwhile walking up to the aircraft the Base Training Captain, who was examining his flight, just told him; '' yeah paul, between you and me, we can do this formal flight, but i already know the outcome, you will fail, cause i have been told by Ryanair (tony Owen, head of training) to fail you, and you will never get your command.''
together with all other things above, RYR working against him in all aspects, Paul got home
and committed suicide. The company was aware of his situation, an denied any help.
This is just one of the examples, of course, nobody talks about it.
I have a lot of other colleagues, first officers as well captains, who can not deal with the company stress no more.
Always living in fear; Ryanair can end your contract anytime. Furthermore, its not possible to build up any social life. RYR often changes you around all bases, and your ''home base'' can be changed anytime. This gives a lot of stress for people with a family, and having i.e. a mortgage on a house. Also the aggressive business strategy of RYR includes closing bases from day to day, just to force the government to deal with RYR's demands.
lately they transferred all Pilots from the Marseille base. They are all totally Fu#@, they were also FORCED to take a 30% pay cut. take it or leave it.
You can image, how they feel, having everything build up in Marseille, and now leaving to another base, with a forced pay cut, not being able to fund all monthly expenses no more, not being home with the family.
TICK, TACK, TICK, TACK.
Another thing is that a lot of pilots are flying out of base,
To get to your destination base for that working week, you have to travel around the whole ryanair network. To get from italy, to i.e. Germany, you have to travel via Denmark and you will be busy two days longer, to get to your work, and to get back from. RYANAIR DOESNT COUNT THESE TRAVELS AS DUTY TIME. This ends up in people stressing around from a to b. to get there in time. often you end up on your destination in the end of evening. Getting in your hotel around twelve, and asleep around 1. thereafter you have to get up at 4.15 to start with your early flights.
I think we agree that an 3 hours sleep is not enough to have the responsibility of four flights x 189 passengers.
Again, Ryanair, doesn't count this as official duty time. But on the pilot roster this comes up as a new temporarily out of base station. how you get there is your own problem.
By JAA avation LAW, this IS counted as duty time. But, probably RYR made a deal, and until now nobody is looking at this... and meanwhile this illegal rostering is going on and on... bringing more fatigue among the pilots. TICK TACK TICK TACK
90% of the 25min turnarounds a a lie, and we lie on the paper, just not to get questioned by the company.
Meanwhile, 99% percent of the pilots want a union. But RYR strategically makes sure we can not get one. Last time they 'freezed'' all UK bases, nobody in and out. and they told all the FirstOfficers that they wouldn't never get their command upgrade if there came a Union.
I don't know the exact figures, but to get a union u need the majority of all pilots to vote for a union. RYR at this time hired new pilots, and they offered them a contract and only a job, if they would sign on forehand to be against a union. in this smart case it wasn't possible to get a union.
Everybody who speaks about any union, just gets fired...that's the culture and the fact that is there right now...in this company.
we just have to see, if this ''awarded'' company will succeed in the future.
From the inside, i can tell you that a lot of pilots are leaving.
Air Dubai, approached RYR on a gentlemen s basis, to warn them that a couple of hundred pilots are busy with the selection process at fly Dubai and they have taken already a lot of them.
Also already a 100 pilots left to emirates.
there was a captain who was off the full month off April. The 1st of may, crew control called the captain cause he was late and thereafter didn't show up for work. he disappeared, left the company with no notice, and got already a job in Qatar. He just treated the company, as the company did with him.
- RYR announced a WET LEASE with other companies, cause they don't have crew to operate their flights this summer.
- and yes it is true what they say....
The only thing we get form the company is a cup of warm water.... we have to bring our own instant coffee... to make our coffee.....
If you would like to have any further information, feel free to email me.
If you are interested about the success of RYR... below the article of how ryanair deals with their daily operation, also with avoiding paying a lot of taxes.
Ryanair's skyrocketing success: flying on thin air? An in-depth analysis of Ryanair's business model.
www.air-scoop.com/.../In-Depth-Analysis-Ryanair-Business-Model-Air-Scoop-Nov2010.pdf
regards,
..................
John said,
The letter above SHOCKS me.I can not believe,Pilots at Ryanair can ever be treated so badly from Bonderman and O'Leary.These Pilots fly thousands of passengers ''safely'' daily only to be exploited by the EVIL David Bonderman TPG Capital Billionaire Hypocrite and Michael O'Leary ''the beef farmer,horse racing,chief abuser of crew,at RYANAIR....
IRSH GOVERNMENT MUST ACT ''NOW''
SHAREHOLDERS MUST ACT NOW-SACK THE BOARD ''NOW''
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