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Michael O’Leary se lanza declaraciones en contra de las autoridadesd europeas de aviación, señalando que el uso de un cinturón de seguridad es una convención que no debería de ser obligatoria.

Michael O’Leary, CEO de Ryan Air, la aerolínea barata por exelencia, dijo que la legislación que obliga a los pasajeros a usar cinturones de seguridad incluso en vuelos cortoes es basura. O'Leary considera los aviones, al menos sus aviones, "solo autobuses con alas" y  sugiere que al igual que se permite que las personas  puedan ir abordo de un autobus paradas, se debería de permitir que vuelen solo tomados de una agarradera. O'Leary señala que a la velocidad a la que va un avión un cintrurón de seguridad no sirve de mucho.

Ryan Air busca ofrecer vuelos de hasta £1 libra esterlina, removiendo las últimas filas de algunos aviones para colocar ahí a numerosos pasajeros que vuelen parados. Esto sería en vuelos donde no existen grandes zonas de turbulencia.

La legislación europea por el momento no permite está medida, por lo cual O'Leary ha despotricado contra las autoridades.

Ryan Air se ha convertido en una de las aerolíneas más rentables, con £477 millones de libras esterlinas de ganancias en el primer semestre del añ, explotando que, debido a los elevados prcios de muchas aerolíneas, millones de personas están dispuestas a sacrificar la comodidad por un un precio reducido. La aerolínea irlandesa se caracteriza sin duda por su radical innovación en marketing y servicios, en algún momento incluso plantearon ofrecer sexo oral abordo para algunos pasajeros.

[Telegraph]

 

 

Those wishing to fly on holiday should instead be permitted to stand at the back on a plane, which he considers to be “just a b----- bus with wings”.

Mr O’Leary, the chief executive of budget airline Ryanair, dismissed the notion seatbelts were an essential safety requirement, saying: “If there ever was a crash on an aircraft, God forbid, a seatbelt won’t save you.”

"Seatbelts don't matter,” he proclaimed.

"You don't need a seatbelt on the London Underground. You don't need a seatbelt on trains which are travelling at 120mph and if they crash you're all dead..."

He is currently seeking to create “standing room only” cabins for students and budget travellers, selling £1 tickets to European destinations.

He has suggested removing the back ten rows of seats in aircrafts, allowing groups of less discerning travellers to commute to their destination on their feet.

When it came to landing, he suggested, passengers could “hang on to the handle” and would be “fine”.

"If you say to passengers it's £25 for the seat and £1 for the standing cabin, I guarantee we will sell the standing cabin first,” he said. “No question.

"You should be able to choose from a safety perspective.

“We're not talking about areas of huge turbulence around Europe.

“We don't have heavy landings anymore "If you say to someone,' look, hang onto the handle there, you're coming in to land', they'll be fine.

"We operate 1500 flights a day. They don't come skidding in. This is a very routine, safe form of travel. "

The 'standing cabin' proposals are currently ruled out by European Safety regulations which say passengers must be belted in for take-off and landing.

Mr O'Leary, whose low-cost airline posted a 10 per cent rise in first-half profits to £477m, said: "We're always looking for new ways of doing things; it's the authorities who won't