Poles ambiguous about Ryanair

[pee]

I have visited some aviation sites in Poland to see how Ryanair just commencing its flights to this country has been perceived there.
Well, some people are very optimistic indeed, nevertheless many are critical too. To begin with, some negative remarks about Polish historical cities made by MOL are still remembered and cited. Also the negotiations with airports and municipalities have had some negative denotation, just no airline there used to ask for special treatment as a precondition to fly, like FR does. And, in addition, many laugh at not-so-funny blunders at the Ryanair's website. The Polish version has language faults in it and, finally, the map of Poland is... very unusual. According to that picture, Poland includes also Kaliningrad (that belongs to Russia) and some parts of Belarus and Lithuania. The pasazer.com site has published two maps: Poland as seen by Ryanair and the real one. Let's try to include it here:

[Ozzie1969]

We all know Michael O'Leary isn't afraid of stepping on people's toes. In fact, he seems to thrive on it. However, I think he is completely wrong with his attitude towards Central and Eastern Europe. Most of these former Warsaw Pact countries have yet to be discovered by the Western European tourist, and I'll bet there are plenty of people who would chance a visit to an Eastern European city with plenty of tourist attractions should low cost airlines establish routes between these cities and the major airports in Western Europe. There's loads of these cities about : Cracow, Prague, Budapest, ... are just the tip of the iceberg. As more and more of these countries join the EU, I don't see why low cost airlines shouldn't venture into these countries, or even, why new lost cost airlines should not spring up in these countries. For one thing, wages would remain substantially lower in these new EU members for quite a while yet. To just shove Eastern Europe aside as commercially uninteresting, is just dumb.

[HorsePower]

Where did coui**e MOL founds this crappy map?

Sorry, can't resist...

Seb.