Isn't Ryanair being discriminatory?

headpin

mad_rich wrote: »

You mean using it as a loophole to check baggage without paying the offline check-in fee? Not possible:


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Where a passenger is unable to avail of Online Check-in by reason only of not being the holder of either a valid passport...

I thought that's what I said? And I did say only on Domestic Routes, where a passport is not (at the moment anyway!!) a legal requirement. How do Ryanair know whether you hold a passport or not?

dmg24

dzug1 wrote: »

Yeah so what? Life is full of discriminations. We send most of our time doing it. I discriminate against Aldi by shopping at Tesco instead. Or vice versa. I discriminate against Kelloggs by eating Weetabix instead. A school discriminates against pupils that don't meet its admissions policy. The government discriminates against foreigners by requiring some of them to have a visa and all of them to have a passport.

Discrimination is perfectly legal except for a number of very closely defined circumstances

I'm forwarding on this post to Mr Kelloggs to ensure that he takes immediate legal measures against you!

M4RKM

i'm gonna complain about dmg.... kellogs... pffft.... everyone should support british businesses, which weetabix is one, based in Burton Latimer, Kettering..


oooh ok.. i'm a weetabix geek.. my dad used to work for them for many years..

M

richardw

jojeba wrote: »

Yes but on a NZ passport I am allowed to fly into Europe, (and my UK visa will only strengthen this).

Yes, but they need to see this in your passport, so they ask you to use a check in desk.

benjus

headpin wrote: »

I thought that's what I said? And I did say only on Domestic Routes, where a passport is not (at the moment anyway!!) a legal requirement. How do Ryanair know whether you hold a passport or not?

You said "with hold baggage". You can't check in online with hold baggage, so the reason this person had to check in at the airport was not only because of not having an EU passport.

scottsburg

Ryanair should take Easyjet's lead and only advertise prices as they stand after tax , baggage, booking fees and everything else.

I just bought return tickets to Budapest from the UK on ryanair.

£0.00 going out
£12.99 return

Total inc all the rubbish on top = £102.50.

Still cheap, but why advertise false prices?

dmg24

scottsburg wrote: »

Ryanair should take Easyjet's lead and only advertise prices as they stand after tax , baggage, booking fees and everything else.

I just bought return tickets to Budapest from the UK on ryanair.

£0.00 going out
£12.99 return

Total inc all the rubbish on top = £102.50.

Still cheap, but why advertise false prices?

How many Groundhog Days can we have in one day? :rolleyes:

mystic_trev

scottsburg wrote: »

Ryanair should take Easyjet's lead and only advertise prices as they stand after tax , baggage, booking fees and everything else.

I just bought return tickets to Budapest from the UK on ryanair.

£0.00 going out
£12.99 return

Total inc all the rubbish on top = £102.50.

Still cheap, but why advertise false prices?

I'm flying to Poland next week on Ryanair

£5 going out
£5 return

Total cost for the flights £10

Cheap - but why don't I have pay more for these flights?!

MrSmartprice

scottsburg wrote: »

Ryanair should take Easyjet's lead and only advertise prices as they stand after tax , baggage, booking fees and everything else.

I just bought return tickets to Budapest from the UK on ryanair.

£0.00 going out
£12.99 return

Total inc all the rubbish on top = £102.50.

Still cheap, but why advertise false prices?

So what was your 'rubbish on top'?

I'm with you on taxes as they are unavoidable. So they should be included in the advertised price in all cases where they apply. But they don't always apply. We recently flew EMA-Madrid, then Madrid-Santander, and back from Biarritz-BHX. Six Ryanair flights for just over £5, total cost.

Where I don't agree is on the issues of checked baggage, check-in chages and credit card charges. They are all optional. We travel on 10kg of cabin baggage for anything up to 10 days, we check in online, and I have an Abbey Electron card which I use only for flights. So we paid no extras at all.

I have just booked 2 return flights BHX-Alicante for December on Ryanair. Total cost was £52, which was entirely made up of taxes, flights all being £0.00. I would have liked the prices displayed as this up front, although they are still a bargain. But why would they have included all of the optional costs? We don't all pay them!;)

MrSmartprice

mystic_trev wrote: »

I'm flying to Poland next week on Ryanair

£5 going out
£5 return

Total cost for the flights £10

Cheap - but why don't I have pay more for these flights?!

Because the people who pay by Visa, check in at the airport, and insist on taking the kitchen sink on holiday with them, are subsidising you. And me!

Good, isn't it?:D