I see Ireland’s budget airline Ryanair is in trouble with the media again for an advert featuring a model as a scantily clad schoolgirl, BBC article here.

I got my first Ryanair flight a few months ago and it was actually a great experience despite all the horror stories I had read in the media. Unlike many other airlines the plane was new, comfortable and there was plenty of space. Of course there were no frills but for £35 I was cool with that.

Regarding the risque ad I wonder if the “concerned authorities” have noticed the above saucy bunch. The old St Trinians movie got a remake recently and I don’t think I heard a peep of complaint. The picture here was taken at a Virgin media ( a wonderful British company ) launch for the film. Now, in comparison don’t you think the Ryanair ad furore is a bit of a joke?

Perhaps it’s not the crime that matters, but the person who is committing it? I was on a flight BA038 from Beijing to Heathrow in October 2006. As we were landing the turbulence was extreme. Everybody was quiet except for a hostess who was shouting “Oh my god, I don’t like this, oh no.” – very comforting. Another BA038 flight crash landed in Heathrow lately and in the media we heard time and time again about the great pilots and crew and how they were hero’s and praise after praise was heaped upon them, and now it’s forgotten.

Along the way of heaping adoration on “Britains favourite airline” the press forgot to mention that someone somewhere had seriously fucked up and put hundreds of lives at risk. Now if that had been Ryanair I’m sure the press coverage would have been altogether different.