Colonel Irrelevant

Archive for April, 2010

27 Apr

Airlines and Volcano Dust

So the airlines want bailing out. Brilliant. What next? Donkey ride owners claiming for a bad summer? Your business may have suffered but so have the important people in all this – the passangers. The imperitive to agree some limits seems to have been in the airlines court for years and they haven’t done anything [...]

27 Apr

Old Etonion promoting the status quo

Far be it from me to tell anyone how to vote (and you are THE one, dear reader), but all of the nonsense about ‘weakness’ and ‘indecision’ from Cameron makes me laugh. I was a kid when Thatcher was elected. I voted at 18 in 1983 and had to watch as the Tories dismantled our [...]

21 Apr

Blame

Listening and Reading to the latest on the volcano disruption makes me smile. Stopping planes flying for safety reasons is sensible. But it costs money. So business gets upset. Ryanair seem to be refusing to pay for expenses because they aren’t flying and Willie Walsh is bleating. Well Ryanair can swivel because being tight in [...]

16 Apr

Leader Debate

I had a considered piece that got lost so in sumary Nick done good Gordy was better than expected David you are still an odious Tory

16 Apr

When travellers miss the point

Volcanic ash is dangerous to planes. The dust turns to glass causing engines to stop which is a Bad Thing. Engines stopping at 37000 feet is never good even if you can get them started again. So NATS suspend flights because planes falling from the sky is bad for the plane, the airline and the [...]

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