Charlotte MacDonald
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1,889 appearances
62 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2010
last heard Apr 2025
Charlotte MacDonald’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But also, that organisation has only 32 members.
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There are around 250 airlines operating in Europe, so I don't think you can use that data to say you beat all others anyway.
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That would be cheeky too.
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Ryanair has never been a member of the Association of European Airlines.
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They seem to be implying that non-members don't count for the purposes of their comparison, but then surely they don't count either.
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It's actually not totally clear that it means very much to be punctual.
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Our listener Fiona has her suspicions.
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Now, there is a term for this in the industry.
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I asked Ryanair if they did this.
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They said no.
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I had a quick look at Fiona's home airport of Edinburgh to see how Ryanair flight times measured up to its rivals.
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And actually, I found eight routes where competitors were making the same journey.
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In only one case did Ryanair give a longer flight time than its rivals.
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You're right, Tim.
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Jim Payton thinks they do.
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And just to put this into perspective, today British Airways reports a flight time of 75 minutes to Amsterdam.
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In 1958, when it was using planes with propellers, it was taking 70 minutes to do the same journey.
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Excellent point again.
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Ryanair tells me that 20% of their passengers put luggage in the hold.
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So when they say that only one bag per 3,000 passengers is misplaced, only a fifth of those passengers would have had a bag anyway.
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