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Ryanair threatens The Aviation Herald with legal action
Comments posted by readers on The Aviation Herald regarding an incident where a Ryanair aircraft alledgedly received EGPWS warnings on a visual approach has made Ryanair call foul (Defamation.) Contentions heated up when emails from Ryanair were posted in full on The Aviation Hearld today. Ryainair butt-hurt? I think so. (avherald.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Seriously, Ryanair wants comments to be removed? What happened to freedom of speech? What is it they are afraid of? Go Simon!
Donate a dollar to your local food bank, then send the rest to help with The Aviation Herald's leagal bills!
The airline is now upset that this information was released all or in part after they marked the letter "strictly private and confidential". This is an old trick. Once you write a letter to someone (email or text or phone call), you don't get to direct what happens to it. The best way to deal with cheapshot artists is to expose them. Post it on the web, notice boards etc. By doing so, the Herald has shown Ryanair to be a thin skinned bully which enrages them even further.
Well said and I agree totally.
The comments are pretty bad but defamation? Come on, get some thicker skin. You decide:
1. "What would they do ... without their Ground Proximity Warning System? Go to funerals every month I guess."
2. "...the daily near disasters and safety infractions ... !"
3. "Perhaps a testament to ... engineering that those airplanes are not crashing everywhere like fire flies in September!"
4. "...abuse and violations of safety there"
5. "They are a disaster waiting to happen..." implying that there must be some form of intervention "...before he causes a major loss of lives with his silly ideas and tactics."
(avherald.com)
1. "What would they do ... without their Ground Proximity Warning System? Go to funerals every month I guess."
2. "...the daily near disasters and safety infractions ... !"
3. "Perhaps a testament to ... engineering that those airplanes are not crashing everywhere like fire flies in September!"
4. "...abuse and violations of safety there"
5. "They are a disaster waiting to happen..." implying that there must be some form of intervention "...before he causes a major loss of lives with his silly ideas and tactics."
(avherald.com)
To boot, I think most of these are PUBLIC comments and not AVHERALD. As with Connors comment here below, just more publicity and something for the lawyers to do.
Most right thinking people are capable of filtering fact from fiction, whether in personal communications, or those posted on the internet, or published in print or on TV. Ryan air attempts to manage the media by being a threatning legal bully.
The legal department should understand that if you don't want to see your communication in print, don't send it to a publisher!
How ironic that the first thing airlines and their insurance companies want to do after an accident is to dismantal the tort system and deprive injured parties their just compensation, but somehow peoples' opinion causes them to feel defamed and want to use the tort system to force their will upon others.
The legal department should understand that if you don't want to see your communication in print, don't send it to a publisher!
How ironic that the first thing airlines and their insurance companies want to do after an accident is to dismantal the tort system and deprive injured parties their just compensation, but somehow peoples' opinion causes them to feel defamed and want to use the tort system to force their will upon others.