Ryanair deals ‘perfectly’ with snow penis picture

Ryanair’s communications team had been praised for the way it reacted when its ground handling staff were caught on camera drawing a giant penis in the snow at Dublin Airport.
The photo, taken by a waiting passenger, was tweeted and retweeted, and shared on Facebook, and was quickly picked up by the media across the world.
When contacted for a response to the online furore, Ryanair’s communications chief Robin Kiely quipped: "While our ground crew excel at industry leading 25 minute turnarounds, art isn’t their forte, as they’ve clearly forgotten to draw wings on their snow airplane."
It was described by many in the media world as the perfect public relations response.

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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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