Aer Lingus pilots, what a bunch of cunts
Posted in Blog by Twenty Major on August 31st, 2007
Tell you what, I’m bored off my tits listening to and reading stories about Aer Lingus pilots going on strike. What’s their fucking problem, the Ray Ban wearing cocksmokers?
Just shut the fuck up and fly the plane. Nobody wants to hear you when we’re flying but you give us a halfway report like we might be interested.
“Ladies and gentlemen … ehm … this is your pilot ..at the moment we’re …ahhh… cruising at 36.000 feet … just over the …ehh … coast of France and …uhm … we expect to make our landing at ….uhm … about …ahh…. in an hour or so. Er … weather on the ground is …ehm…”
SHUT UP you croaky voiced dick.
Now they’re in the papers and on the radio all the time. These cunts that get paid €70,000 a year or whatever the minimum is and they’re complaining about something that I don’t care about. I don’t know their beef is or what they want but I can guarantee you it’s all to make their lives easier and our lives not as easy. Or at least more expensive.
They should just fucking sack the lot of them and hire a load of ex-Lebanese fighter pilots like Ryanair did*
Or kill them. I’m all for equal rights and all that but I think anyone who goes on strike should be killed as a deterrent to the rest. Don’t like your pay and conditions? Get a new job, you moany bitch.
*Obviously not true. Obviously.
Heard the one about the aggrieved Arab who bursts into the cockpit of a Ryanair flight and shouts ‘Take me to Paris!’ The pilot says ‘But sir, we’re going to Paris’ and the hijacker says ‘You call Beauvais Paris?’
August 31st, 2007 at 9:45 am
Just give the pilots who shut the fuck up free mile high privileges with their Eastern European hottie hostess of choice. That should do it.
August 31st, 2007 at 9:46 am
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you have obviously never worked in a proper job you whingey cunt. it’s well for some that get to sit on their hole and write mildly entertaining tripe for a living and not have to do real work. granted, aer lingus pilots get paid too much but some people go on strike so they can eh, feed their families and pay mortgages, have adequate working conditions and other such trivialities that i expect you wouldn’t concern your face with.
August 31st, 2007 at 9:47 am
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That’s right. I have never worked a day in my life.
August 31st, 2007 at 9:55 am
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You sound like Thatcher you fucking west brit cunt
August 31st, 2007 at 9:56 am
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All hail Maggie!
August 31st, 2007 at 10:08 am
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Ok, I shouldn’t believe everything the Phoenix says but they had a nice little report on Aer Lingus in the business section this week. Seems they have a lot of pilots per plane and the bloodsuckers get a big bonus if they have to do some overtime. Seems aer Lingus is paying about 26% of their operational costs on personnel. Ryan Air only 14%.
And Stig, nobody really needs more than 50-60 grand a year. With that money you can have a nice house, a nice car and still have a lot of spare change to feed your kids.
But if those pilots insist that they should drive the latest BMW or Audi TT every year and insist on living somewhere in D4, well. Though luck for them.
August 31st, 2007 at 10:08 am
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work is for mugs.
August 31st, 2007 at 10:11 am
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twenty?
Are you Kevin Myers?
August 31st, 2007 at 10:34 am
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I didn’t quite catch that… » A tad harsh says:
[...] yet, many of the same people would probably laugh their tits off at 20 Major, despite him heading way off reservation… Now they’re [Aer Lingus pilots] in the papers and [...]
August 31st, 2007 at 10:41 am
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Itchy - people used to ask that question years ago.
August 31st, 2007 at 10:53 am
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As much as I hate those Ryanair cunts, I have a lot of admiration for Michael O’Leary’s attitude.
I am also a big fan of Lady Thatcher’s’ trade-union reforms, they put the power back where it belongs, out of the hands of the uneducated minions.
August 31st, 2007 at 11:22 am
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I was once on an Aer Lingus short haul flight… Crewed by a pilot and one ‘hostess’.
The pilot cam on the intercom before take off and in the thickest Galway accent and whiny high pitched voice made the announcement…
“How are yiz all - Welcome on the flight, like…
Just settle in there now like an we’ll all be after takin off in a couple of minutes like.”
Straight off I thought - he’ll never make it on international flights…
August 31st, 2007 at 11:34 am
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Head bangers.
August 31st, 2007 at 11:46 am
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Christ im gonna come off like some sorta wet liberal (again), but if ive got it right - are they not striking because the planned wages for Norn Iron pilots will be lower than the rest of Ireland?
August 31st, 2007 at 11:46 am
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ye, whats wrong with that
August 31st, 2007 at 11:50 am
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Well twenty I was moaning on my blog today about my employer counting Saturdays and Sundays as part of your holidays. Hes and even bigger cunt the Michael O Leary.
August 31st, 2007 at 12:04 pm
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Just give them the money - you know they’re worth it!
August 31st, 2007 at 12:07 pm
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So its ok to discriminate against someone doing the exact same job because their a northy, Peadar?
August 31st, 2007 at 12:11 pm
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I personally want whoever is flying me around at 40,000 feet in a pressurised tube at high speeds to be extremely well remunerated for said job. Good pay and conditions tend to attract smarter, more qualified people, in general. Also they work long and irregular hours and are in the position of being responsible for people’s lives. I certainly don’t them cheesed off for any reason. If I’m on board I want ‘em well rested, happy, not worrying about anything else and on at least 100K a year. In addition it is unfair that pilots in a different part of the country receive inferior conditions. What’s going to attract GOOD pilots to work in inferior conditions? What would attract good qualified people in ANYTHING to inferior conditions? I don’t understand the line of reasoning. And I’m all for striking workers. If everybody “put up and shut up” about everything all the time, we’d all still be under English rule….
August 31st, 2007 at 12:15 pm
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If they make me a good offer I’ll fly their planes for them. How hard can it be? Press this, push that, look at a couple of dials, smoke Rothmans, wear a uniform, Echo Tango Corpo…
August 31st, 2007 at 12:27 pm
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”So its ok to discriminate against someone doing the exact same job because their a northy, Peadar?”
Its not discrimnation. Its a different ‘country’, a different market. Pay rates for any job vary from country to country.
A fact of life, for fucks sake
August 31st, 2007 at 12:27 pm
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I’ve never understood the attraction of this blog.
August 31st, 2007 at 12:44 pm
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Yes, I’m new to the blog.
Yes, I’ve been a tetchy bollix this week.
Yes, I’ll still recommend this site and the book to my friends.
Apologies for being a tetchy cunt; shit week
have a good w/end e’body; I’m taking a 1/2 day
good luck.
p.s Prison still doesn’t work.
August 31st, 2007 at 12:57 pm
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who said you could take a half day, ya fucking dosser
August 31st, 2007 at 1:02 pm
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p.s Prison still doesn’t work.
it would if they took twenty’s advice!
August 31st, 2007 at 1:08 pm
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Word on the street (from Aer Lingus pilots) is that the ppl kicking up a fuss about Belfast conditions are Nordy pilots who want to go home to Belfast without losing any money.
Sorry guys - different market. If you don’t want to work in Belfast for the prices they’re offering - stay in Dublin.
If AL can get the staff for what they are offering - good. If they can’t attract people on those conditions - offer more. Supply and Demand. It’s a market ffs.
August 31st, 2007 at 1:09 pm
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we’d all still be under English rule….
and the better off for it!
800 years of oppression my arse!
August 31st, 2007 at 1:12 pm
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Jayzsus Twenty! You’re a grumpy old fukker at times…. what’s your problem are ye jealous of their uniform or what? :-)
August 31st, 2007 at 1:19 pm
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we’d all still be under English rule….
and the better off for it!
fuck off you cunt
August 31st, 2007 at 1:25 pm
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I dunno, Twenty. Do you REALLY want to piss off a bunch of nancy boy pilots? Fuckers will be dropping from the sky like that witch in the wizard of Oz. Strike my arse, they may just land a fucking plane on your noggin.
August 31st, 2007 at 1:26 pm
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Bog off with your hateful smilies - Twenty can you please put a smilie blocker on this blog!
August 31st, 2007 at 1:31 pm
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Mr Major, the pilots simply want parity for their northern colleagues and apart from the fact that pilots work damn hard to get where they are the deserve equality just as much as the rest of us. The high salary is appropriate as it reflect the level of responsibility entrusted with them. Furthermore we should be kissing them their pilots asses as it is largely down to them Ryanair didn’t completely take over. Many of them re-mortgaged their houses to buy shares and prevent Ryanair taking hold. Grant it they had a vested interest but without their input Ryanair would dominate the market and could charge whatever they liked.
August 31st, 2007 at 1:35 pm
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For fuck sake, do you not understand, Northern Ireland is a different country.
August 31st, 2007 at 1:43 pm
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it even has a different currency.
pay rates are non comparable.
Its a differemt fucking market
August 31st, 2007 at 1:49 pm
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If true then why the fuck are Aer Lingus providing internal flights for a foreign country?
I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again.Pilots are not cunts…we are,in fact,utter cunts.A distinction I hope you will appreciate.
August 31st, 2007 at 2:14 pm
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“…pilots work damn hard to get where they are…”
My arse.
Two of my neighbours are pilots (AerLingus) and they spend most of their lives washing their cars or cutting the grass. (And sometimes washing the grass cos they’re so bored)
August 31st, 2007 at 2:15 pm
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Very true Hangar Queen.
In the immortal words of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsmene, ‘yis are all cunts’
August 31st, 2007 at 2:22 pm
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“For fuck sake, do you not understand, Northern Ireland is a different country.”
That depends on the industry Peadar. Whilst I do not have extensive knowledge of how they will operate in the north. Perhaps I am wrong but I am unaware Aer Lingus are planning to launch a new British registered company. Tax and revenue implication etc why would they bother? Besides they are simply providing another terminal ergo pilots up the north will work for the same company doing they same job they should get the same benefits.
August 31st, 2007 at 2:29 pm
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Some things never change - the Oirish who bother working over there are never happy and the cute hoors who wouldn’t work in a fit are all experts on how the job should be done!
Fuck aer lingus - their service is substandard and their noses are up their own arses.
I fly SAS or Lufthansa whenever possible - they know what running a business is really about.
August 31st, 2007 at 3:00 pm
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anyhow - it’s autopilot that does most of the work FFS
August 31st, 2007 at 3:06 pm
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give autopilot a rise, he deserves it
August 31st, 2007 at 3:21 pm
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Well, he did save the day in Airplane.
August 31st, 2007 at 3:23 pm
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It’s an English invention Peadar ;)
August 31st, 2007 at 3:23 pm
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Pilots are not cunts…we are,in fact,utter cunts.A distinction I hope you will appreciate.
Thank you, HQ. Let there be no further misunderstandings.
August 31st, 2007 at 3:39 pm
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And the smilies are gone. I’d been meaning to do that ages ago.
I dunno, Twenty. Do you REALLY want to piss off a bunch of nancy boy pilots?
They’re too busy being utter cunts to bother with me.
August 31st, 2007 at 3:41 pm
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Twenty, you’re a HERO!
August 31st, 2007 at 3:47 pm
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….the uniforms….the peaked cap,the four gold stripes just above a macho hairy wrist…mmmmmmm
August 31st, 2007 at 3:49 pm
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:( …just checking
August 31st, 2007 at 4:02 pm
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Damn straight Shebah them flyer boys are hotie mac toties!
August 31st, 2007 at 4:22 pm
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I’m confused. Did they used to be Lebanese, or did they used to be fighter pilots? Wacka wacka wacka!
August 31st, 2007 at 4:57 pm
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NINE TO FIVE WAFFLING C U N T S
August 31st, 2007 at 5:16 pm
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i’d sooner be a train driver
August 31st, 2007 at 5:23 pm
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pilots better not complain too much - most of the flying is done by autopilot anyway (much safer at 36000 feet than takeoff or landing), and companies are coming up with automatic landing and (presumably) takeoff systems -
http://www.qinetiq.com/home/newsroom/news_releases_homepage/2005/2nd_quarter/QinetiQs_JSF_world_first.html
as long as they don’t use windows vista to run the plane, should be ok
August 31st, 2007 at 5:25 pm
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Did you know you’ve more chance of being a cunt pilot than you do of being kicked to death by a donkey?
August 31st, 2007 at 5:28 pm
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I don’t believe you N Disgrace. Incidently your site won’t allow comments the tarred and feathered picture is cool!
August 31st, 2007 at 5:35 pm
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August 31st, 2007 at 5:38 pm
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Personally I don’t want to be flown by someone who’s in a grumpy, disgruntled frame of mind because he/she thinks they are an exploited wage slave.
August 31st, 2007 at 6:23 pm
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Go by boat and/or train then mad dog.
I don’t hold with all this flying about - it’s unnatural and ungodly.
August 31st, 2007 at 7:30 pm
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maybe the tar and feather idea could be applied to pilots who complain too much…
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August 31st, 2007 at 7:49 pm
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Maggot: Can’t disagree with you there -flying is a highly improbable concept and I’d rather take a train or boat and do when I can. But there are times when this is not possible and when I do I want the process to be handled by content professionals. Same goes for flight engineers, mechanics, cabin staff et al. Pay them all going rate, I say…
August 31st, 2007 at 8:54 pm
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i’m sorry, i couldn’t be arsed to read 61 comments.
Can someone fill me in?
September 1st, 2007 at 4:36 pm
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Aer Lingus pilots are cunts.
September 1st, 2007 at 8:26 pm
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You’re great sport! You really are!!!
September 2nd, 2007 at 11:58 pm
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” Aer Lingus ” cunts? is that where the term cunty lingus came from! id like a go at that licking business. any trolly dollies looking for ‘the king of the tongue’
September 3rd, 2007 at 6:22 pm
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if god wanted us to fly he would of put engines under our arms. walk! for the love of god walk to where you want to go!
September 3rd, 2007 at 6:25 pm
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my pipe and my gear makes me fly all the time.
September 6th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
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You are a blundering idot who knows very little. Do you know how hard it is to become qualified for a pilot position. Why dont you educate yourself before you comment on something like this. You are a fool.
September 17th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
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Yes, I know how hard it is. That doesn’t mean you’re not all cunts.
September 17th, 2007 at 6:55 pm
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When I come home I increasingly find that this country is inhabited and run by a total bunch of cunts. Best I get out of here then eh?
September 21st, 2007 at 11:06 pm
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Go on so, fuck off
September 24th, 2007 at 10:36 am
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I have had 9 holidays in as many years each time there has been the threat of a strike. I am going away Tuesday week and guess what there is the threat of a strike again. I bet my left nut that they have better working conditions than the shop where my wife works but where is siptu the workers there are members but no fucking sign of them in fact i bet they have better working conditions than half the country. Fire them all and put in polish workers or other people who want to work and wont keep sucking the company dry till it has to close. Last time i am booking a flight with the knobs anyway if i have to get a boat to England and fly from there with another company than so be it.
November 16th, 2007 at 11:19 am
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Hey dude! You’re a fucking legend! Keep that shit up.
December 7th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
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What a bunch of tossers..who gives a shit about Aer Lingus. Hail the ryan air empire - without them i couldn’t fly to and fro from France twice a week for only £20 a pop!
June 20th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
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