Flights and Fights. Inside the Low Cost Airlines

Description

Ryanair's Michael O'Leary and EasyJet's Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou opened up new frontiers in the aviation industry as their airlines offered cheap flights to a vast range of popular and alternative destinations. This program follows O'Leary as he flies to Poland, takes an EasyJet flight to Moscow and joins a group of lads traveling to Riga to sample the low-cost airline experience. This documentary tells the incredible true story of how low cost flight was born, shining a light on the main players' history, their ethos, their business strategy and their outlandish publicity stunts.

Runtime

50 min

Subjects

Genre

Date of Publication

[2014], c2013

Database

Films on Demand

Direct Link