Ryanair are now paying passengers to fly on its planes. They are offering the seats for free and then THEY pay the taxes and other charges. So long as you take only hand luggage and check in on-line Ryanair pay the rest!!Where's the catch? Well you have to fly at off peak times but still this is ridiculously cheap.
The reason is actually because the number of air passengers is dropping and Ryanair is seeing planes which have too many empty seats. They still have to fly the plane so if they offer the seats for free they reason that they can at least recoup some of their costs be selling on-board snacks, travel insurance, hotel reservations etc...
However environmentalist groups have been very critical with Friends of the Earth saying,
"Passengers may be getting a free ride, but the planet certainly isn't. It is unbelievable that Ryanair is resorting to such tactics."
Ryanair has been expanding rapidly and investing heavily in new planes so that last thing they need is to fly planes with empty seats.
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Can you please explain what caused the last ice age to disappear? The temperatures increased despite the fact that there were no coal fired powerplants, no motor boats, no cars, no airplanes, no nothing?
Not too long ago there were screams from the "greens" about a new ice age coming. Now it is lots of BS about "global warming". Which is it?
The environmental hysterics can not be taken seriously buy anyone who considers history and the effect of changing solar temperatures on the temperatures of the solar system including the planet Earth.
I think it is is somewhat ignorant to say that people have no effect on the environment. That being said, I don't entirely buy the whole sky is falling argument proposed by so many enviornmnentalists and the Al Gore groupies.
p.s. I added a link to your blog from my blog. Hope that's ok.
No worries, link away...
I agree though, you can't put your head in the sand and say climate change is a natural process and we are not doing anything to affect or acellerate it.
If Al Gore is OTT then its because you need to really shout about this before anybody takes any notice.
That could be, but at the same time his "The sky is falling" approach wears on a lot of people, me included. That being said it's interesting the different reaction he gets in Europe as opposed to the US. It seems he is treated as a hero here but only half the US sees it that way.
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