God's Own Airline?

The Vatican is to begin offering a low cost airline to Catholic pilgrims to transport them to various holy sites, beginning with Lourdes. I hope their pricing policy is more transparent than other low cost airlines. The airline will be called Mistral Air (easypray.com was dropped at the last minute)

Lourdes is a strange holy site. Every Catholic has heard of the miraculous healing that can be found there, but the statistics are not that good. There have been around 200million visitors to Lourdes since 1860 and 68 recognised miracles. That's about a 1 in 3million chance of having your prayers heard and a miracle performed. It's not great odds when you consider that medical science produces similar numbers of cures which cannot be explained. What do the millions who go there seeking healing and don't find it feel?

Ryanair: Stop complaining, It's still the cheapest

Ryanair want to start charging a fee for checking in at the airport terminal. At the same time they will make it free for people to check in on-line.

Every time Ryanair start charging for something new everyone gets so upset, like 'how dare they charge us for this'. But the bottom line is Ryanair is WAY cheaper than any other national airline. The new charges are nothing more than a carrot and stick approach to get people to check in on-line and together with the baggage charges they introduced earlier will make it even cheaper to fly if you only have hand luggage.

People need to stop complaining and realise that whatever the extra costs are you still can't find a cheaper carrier. If you want customer service though you can always look elsewhere and pay the extra.

It won't end here though....there are plenty more charges to made.