Entering the knowledge test came to the airline last week face a lot of criticism.
The CEO now says that the test will be abolished, reports the BBC† Partly because it was too simple, and therefore ‘pointless’. “People had no problem making it. But it wasn’t appropriate to take it either. That’s why we stopped doing it.”
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Ryanair was especially angry because the mandatory test was only available in Afrikaans, which is only one of the 11 official languages in the country. Afrikaans, which is derived from Dutch, is spoken by about 12 percent of South Africans.
The test, which consisted of 15 ‘simple questions’, was necessary, according to Ryanair, because there are many fake passports in circulation. Passengers had to use it to prove that they really came from South Africa.
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