Ryanair in row over Channel 4 documentary

A row has broken out between Ryanair and Channel 4's Dispatches programme over a documentary due to be broadcast next Monday.

A row has broken out between Ryanair and Channel 4's Dispatchesprogramme over a documentary due to be broadcast next Monday.

On it website today, Ryanair published correspondence between the airline and Dispatchesin relation to the programme.

Two reporters working as cabin crew spent five months secretly filming Ryanair's training programme and onboard flights.

Under the title "Ryanair & Dispatches...The Truth", the company says it found no substance in any of the allegations made in the letters it received from the Dispatchesproduction company.

On the Ryanair website, the airline's chief executive Michael O'Leary said the company had "replied to all allegations made and have copied all of this correspondence at every stage to the relevant aviation regulatory authorities in the UK and Ireland".

Mr O'Leary said the company could find no substance to any of these written allegations on the basis of the evidence thus far produced by Dispatches.

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Luke Cassidy

Luke Cassidy

Luke Cassidy is Digital Production Editor of The Irish Times