Ryanair throws serious shade at British Airways over travel chaos
Ryanair is making hay while the sun is not shining on British Airways.
BA customers are facing a third day of travel disruption because of a breakdown in the airline's computer system.
And Ryanair is making no attempt to hide its schadenfreude:
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"Meanwhile, over at the @British_Airways IT department..." said a tweet on the official Ryanair account, along with the hashtag #ShouldHaveFlownRyanair.
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"Breaking news: BA appoints new head of IT," said another tweet which was pinned to Ryanair's page.
Ouch.
Some people saw the funny side:
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Others didn't:
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British Airways said 75,000 customers were affected by the technical glitch over the weekend but denied the failure was because the company outsourced its IT operations.
Topics Cybersecurity
Anne-Marie Tomchak is the UK Editor of Mashable, where she heads up the company's operations from London. She has spent over a decade reporting and presenting for national and international broadcasters including the BBC, RTE, Deutsche Welle, American Public Media and NPR. In 2013, Anne-Marie launched the social media investigative unit BBC Trending. During her time at the corporation, she also developed the mobile video offering on the BBC News app and fronted live social broadcasts. Anne-Marie is a leading digital media voice contextualizing the role of technology in the modern world. She has made a number of feature length TV documentaries for Ireland's national broadcaster RTE in her capacity as UK Editor for Mashable, including ‘Cloud Control: Who Owns Your Data?’ (Nov 2016) about big data and digital fingerprints and “Will A Robot Steal My Job” (Nov 2017) about the impact of AI and automation on the workforce. The Irish Times listed her as '30 Irish Women You Need to Know' for International Women's Day and she is one of Silicon Republic's '30 Incredible Irish people leading a European invasion'.
