Tuesday 23 June 2009

Oops, I did it again ...

Somehow I am a bad omen for airlines. This year so far, I managed to get two out of four bankrupt in the week of my return flight. In January, flyLAL, the Lithuanian state airline, ceased operations on Friday after I took their flight on Monday, yesterday SkyEurope filed for creditor protection. They managed to get me home with a two hour delay, first due to "late arrival of the aircraft" and then "technical problems". I suspect that they had to paint over and remove all the logos on the plane, because I had never seen such a pristine white and unbranded but apparently not really new plane before.

Anyways, Ryanair and Flybe survived their 50% chance of succeeding after my custom, let's see how my record will look at the end of this year. If you think that I am the one to blame for the current economical crisis, I can assure you that my bank still works, I don't own a car and all my usual retailers are also still in business. Seems like I only affect the travel sector, so tell me if I should notify you which airline I will use next.