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[-] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 39 points 9 months ago

inb4 "based Irish": Ryanair are a corporation and not cool enough to boycott Israel on principle; there's some other reason

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 14 points 9 months ago

The only reason is Irish is because of tax status.

[-] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

Did you miss a word by mistake?

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 9 months ago
[-] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago

Are you saying "The only reason RYANAIR is Irish is because of tax status" ?

It was founded by Irish people. It initially only operated Irish flights.

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 9 months ago
[-] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Ok, well, so that people reading know, that's disinformation.

It didn't offer non-Irish flights for its first 13 years.

It's not an offshore company.

[-] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 13 points 9 months ago
[-] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago

Yeah no, Michael O'Leary has as much in common with James Connolly as Elon Musk does with Nelson Mandela.

[-] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 2 points 9 months ago

yeah lol, Connolly was based and a member of the IWW (join, maybe?), while O'Leary literally called for the army to get involved in a strike. Different on many levels.

[-] supafuzz@hexbear.net 21 points 9 months ago

I wonder if there's an insurance implication to flying to Israel that other airlines are willing to eat but "we only have seats because they make us" RyanAir isn't

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago

This is probably true (as @frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml points out) and has more interesting (and positive) implications than halting flights for ideological reasons.

[-] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago

It could be that they're worried the Irish public will boycott them if they do business with Israel.

In other words, Israel has become politically toxic.

[-] iByteABit@hexbear.net 16 points 9 months ago

Damn unreliable terminals closing all of a sudden by themselves

[-] Melonius@hexbear.net 5 points 9 months ago
[-] Redderthanmisty@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 9 months ago

Ryanair is Hamas

[-] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago

"how dare they cancel their flights to and from us. Surely there must be some despicable reason we are being targeted. They didn't even give us an answer as to why on a weekend which we will ascribe to further ill intent. Of course they did respond first thing on Monday morning to tell us that flights to and from other nations were also cancelled and it was due to circumstances out of their control but that's inconvenient for our narrative so we'll just bury that."

[-] TheaJo@hexbear.net 3 points 9 months ago

Israeli nature?

[-] What_Religion_R_They@hexbear.net 3 points 9 months ago

everyone should boycott them but give stupid asinine reasons. like isramerica does, but in reverse

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