RYANAIR RESPONDS TO FOOLISH COMMENTS OF UK MINISTER

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05.01.07
RYANAIR – EUROPE’S GREENEST AIRLINE – RESPONDS TO FOOLISH COMMENTS OF UK ENVIRONMENT MINISTER

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Ryanair, Europe’s largest low fares airline, which is also Europe’s greenest airline, today (Friday, 5th January 2007) rejected the foolish and ill informed comments of UK Environment Minister, Ian Pearson.

Laughing off Mr Pearson’s attack, Ryanair’s CEO, Michael O’Leary said:

“Being attacked by Minister Pearson (reminds me of Denis Healy’s famous quip) .... is like “being savaged by a dead sheep”. It is clear that Minister Pearson hasn’t a clue what he’s talking about.

1. The recent Stern Report confirmed that the airline industry accounts for just 1.6% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Airlines are neither the cause nor the solution to climate change.
2. Mr Pearson has nothing to say about road transport, which accounts for 18%, or the power generation industry which accounts for over 25% of CO2 emissions, despite the UK Government’s abysmal record on tackling polluting power stations, many of which his own Government owns.
3. Ryanair is Europe’s greenest airline. We have spent in excess of $10bn. over the last five years in acquiring a fleet of brand new Boeing aircraft which have reduced our fuel consumption by 45%, and our noise and CO2 emissions by 50% per seat.
4. Mr Pearson is a Minister of a Government which has like Scrooge this Christmas doubled the air passenger tax on tickets from £5 to £10, grabbing another £1bn. in taxes without doing anything whatsoever to invest this money in the environment.

“Like most politicians, Minister Pearson talks a lot but does little. Unlike politicians, Ryanair has spent over $10bn. to become Europe’s greenest and cleanest airline, a fact recently recognised by the Dutch consumer organisation.

“At a time when aviation generates just 1.6% of greenhouse gasses, isn’t it time that Minister Pearson and other equally foolish politicians actually tackled the real causes of climate change which is road transport and power generation.

“In the meantime, Ryanair will continue to be Europe’s greenest airline while opposing these so called “environmental taxes” which is just another way of greedy politicians grabbing more money from ordinary passengers while doing nothing at all for the environment. To celebrate, Ryanair are releasing 5 million free seats today and these seats can be booked on http://www.ryanair.com.”

[heinz-w]

Gut gebrüllt, Löwe.

... Minister Pearson and other equally foolish politicians ...

foolish adj. albern
foolish adj. blöd
foolish adj. doof [coll.]
foolish adj. läppisch
foolish adj. närrisch
foolish adj. töricht
foolish adj. tollkühn
foolish adj. unklug

Puh. Ob man das zu deutschen Ministern und -innen auch sagen dürfte?

[NiesiausBo]

wäre zumindest ganz lustig wenn das ein österreichisches unternehmen tun würde.... möchte dann mal die bild-schlagzeile am nächsten tag lesen

[Maik]

RYANAIR – EUROPE’S GREENEST AIRLINE –

I heard MOL talking about that topic on CNN today - very interesting and funny indeed

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Source: Ryanair

Ryanair welcomes a report by the Dutch consumer agency in the January issue of Reisgids which confirms that Ryanair is Europe’s greenest airline with the lowest CO2 emissions per passenger.


For some reason I can't paste the graph (Image). So here is the link: -
http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/notices. ... estairline

Cheers,
Nick