Whilst I was here last week, news came in about the British Airways flight from London City to Dusseldorf that ended up in Edinburgh by mistake due to incorrect paperwork.
According to reports the passengers only found out about the error when a speaker announcement came on welcoming them all to Edinburgh, after they’d landed although you’d have thought somebody might have noticed that they didn’t fly over any water.
Be that as it may, it seems that Ryanair thought they could make some capital out of the incident by directing a tweet to BA of a picture of the book GEOGRAPHY FOR DUMMIES however this brought the riposte “Hey Ryanair, you may not know this but the subject is navigation, not geography.”
Meanwhile someone suggested that BA had missed a trick suggesting that had the error been made by Ryanair they would have charged double for the second destination.
Indeed Ryanair are not immune to criticism themselves after one of their flights in January from Stansted to Thessalonka arrived almost 24 hours after departing. Foggy conditions in Greece meant the plane was diverted to Timisoara in western Romania, after which Ryanair were forced to transport passengers to Thessaloniki by bus – a journey of 480 miles that takes over eight hours.
Indeed it was only in January that Ryanair was named as the worst airline for short-haul flights from the UK for the sixth consecutive year.
Passengers gave the Dublin-based carrier the lowest possible rating on boarding, seat comfort, refreshments and cabin environment, according to the survey.
A case of people in glass houses not throwing stones, perhaps!
In the second hour of today’s show we reported on some of the most unusual restaurants available around the world.
In London for example there’s SCHOOL DINNERS where Ladies are served by muscle packed Chippendale type waiters whilst men are treated to service from the famous St. Trinian style schoolgirls, with gym slip and stockings.
Served with a three course traditional British Roast dinner, under the supervision of a cane brandishing hilarious headmaster from hell you might find a new meaning for the term having a whip round.
But over in Shanghai there’s a toilet themed restaurant where the walls are decorated with toilet rolls and shower heads and you even sit on toilets to eat.
Food is served up in toilet shaped dishes which gives a whole new meaning to “the loving bowlful” – it’s probably all pretty bog standard!
But for la piece de la resistance why not try “DINING IN THE DARK”. They have a chain of restaurants including one in London where your meals will be served to you in complete darkness and since you can’t see the menu, the food you get served will be a complete surprise. Here you have to rely on your waiter for everything, including guiding you to the loo!
The ideal place for a blind date perhaps, with the added advantage perhaps, that if it doesn’t work out you might be able to slip away in the darkness and leave your partner with the bill!
See you once more tomorrow,
Scott
