Airline Charges Rip Off Discussion

richardw

twotoe wrote: »

I was even more shocked that they must think flying to the Canaries that it must be a nudist holiday with extra charges for luggage.

Ryanair actually fly to Beziers Cap d'agde, which is not too far from a big nudist area.

j2o_2

A few seating observations from a recent trip using easyJet and Jet2...

With easyJet, there are no seat allocations - you just pick a seat when you get on, but you are assigned a boarding group A or B (apart from those who've paid for priority boarding). Boarding is then done in order of priority boarding, group A, then group B. My brother and I got group B, but my sister, who was traveling on a different route alone, got group A. Does anyone know if single travelers get boarding group A and those in a group of two or more get boarding group B?

I ask, as it's related to my second observation. The seat layout was two sets of three seats across a row (--- ---). I noticed that there were a significant number of instances where the block of three seats had two people sat with a seat in the middle free (X-X, rather than XX-), perhaps single travelers who boarded in group A. This meant that many of those people in a group couldn't sit together. So, is this a ploy by easyJet to encourage those traveling in a group to pay for priority boarding next time?

With jet2, there were two of us travelling, and I didn't prebook seats. When I did online check-in, the system pre-allocated the seats. However, it appeared to deliberately choose seats that were surrounded by already occupied seats so that we couldn't sit together without paying to choose our own. There were many seats available with two together (in fact many whole rows free), so I phoned up customer services to ask how it worked. Apparently, "the system allocates seats randomly, starting from the back"! So not randomly then? And there are whole rows free behind the ones it's allocating me... Needless to say, they didn't understand that they were talking nonsense. Does the system deliberately try to seat people apart to encourage them to pay to sit together?

Driver8

Sneaker wrote: »

I decided a trip to Eindhoven was in order so thought I'd check Ryanair, 2 return flights for £20, great get all the way through, and then it's up to £40 with the card charge.

I've now applied for an easycash or something Halifax account but obviousl not going to be here in time, at least I'll have it for the future though.

:mad:

You could still have got the flight for that price. Go online to www.entropay.com and open an online Visa Electron Account load it up, it costs 50p for each ten pound you put onto it and you will be paying online with it in 5 minutes.

There are other threads regarding entropay.

medsinman

I booked a single flight for me and at the bottom of the page after inserting my card details it asked if I would like to save the details for future use. I ticked yes. I then booked a single flight for my wife and when I started to enter the card details---they were there. Sadly the changed her name to mine, daft as I already had a ticket. Each ticket with add ons were £57 Ryan Air wanted £97 to change re insert my wifes name. the cheapest and only way was to buy another ticket with another card. I rang the airline (£1per minute) and was met with the rudest possible woman who said I should learn to use a computer better. It was a £10 transaction fee for each booking using a debit card. The airline stinks, British Airways believe it or not would have been cheaper.

terrieb

I used ryan air first in april 2002 and was very happy, but now the charges for this and for that are stupid, I went on holiday with them taking extras like toiletries, teabags suntan lotion and came back with less that I went out with by they still claimed my case was over llimited (but not on the way out!) I paid the 8 euros extra but now would never give the arogant irishman any more of my hard earned money. why should we jump through hoops to be treated so badly. I dont care if they even offer to pay me to fly with him I will never ever fly again with ryanair.

barafear799

Couple of general Ryanair questions to ask please? (well one question is kinda-related)


First: I notice Ryanair have extended their latest £1 sale - and as we all know there are gonna be lots more sales - my question is this? Are the special offers ever relevent on ALL of Ryanair's routes - I looked at their map today and it highlights the special offers in red - but cities such as Prague and Riga are not included - are they ever included??


Second: Do Halifax do a credit check to open an easycash account - I know there is not supposed to be an O/D facility or cheque guarantee card - so in theory not - but just wanted clarification just in case???


Many thanks

lindsay2610

I'm confused....what is the problem with Ryanair's pricing being more transparent? How does that hurt anyone?

I'm pleased for all the people who play the system, but not everyone finds it that easy - so why not help them out?

If you can't do someone a good turn, don't do them a bad one.

lufcgirl

The point I think most of us 'seasoned travellers' or 'regular users of Ryanair' are trying to make is that nobody makes you pay the additional charges.

Ryanair are the same as Flybe, Easyjet and all those in charging a card charge, yet I don't see everyone slating Stelios!
A quick look up before going through a booking a flight would see the hand luggage restriction of 10kg and the sizes. Then when you came too book, there is quite clearly an option for no additional luggage...it's pretty self explanatory. You can get out of paying the debit charge if you have a Visa Electron card it's simple. I'd rather contact my bank and get an Electron than whinge all day that I have to pay a debit card surcharge and not do anything about it.

I myself had a gripe with them when they stopped taking driving licences as ID and that forced me into getting my passport replaced. But £72 outlay to be able to stay getting £2 return flights again...well worth it! I'm a Ryanair lover and proud of it. They get me to where I want to be for a cheap price.

And where is PBS when you need him/her....;)

lufcgirl

j2o wrote: »

A few seating observations from a recent trip using easyJet and Jet2...

With easyJet, there are no seat allocations - you just pick a seat when you get on, but you are assigned a boarding group A or B (apart from those who've paid for priority boarding). Boarding is then done in order of priority boarding, group A, then group B. My brother and I got group B, but my sister, who was traveling on a different route alone, got group A. Does anyone know if single travelers get boarding group A and those in a group of two or more get boarding group B?

I ask, as it's related to my second observation. The seat layout was two sets of three seats across a row (--- ---). I noticed that there were a significant number of instances where the block of three seats had two people sat with a seat in the middle free (X-X, rather than XX-), perhaps single travelers who boarded in group A. This meant that many of those people in a group couldn't sit together. So, is this a ploy by easyJet to encourage those traveling in a group to pay for priority boarding next time?

Easyjet do boarding as in Group A is people who check in online and the first few at the airport. Group B is usually reserved for people who check in at the airport.

Sooler

j2o wrote: »

I noticed that there were a significant number of instances where the block of three seats had two people sat with a seat in the middle free (X-X, rather than XX-), perhaps single travelers who boarded in group A.

Or people travelling together who don't want to sit in the middle seat.

j2o wrote: »

And there are whole rows free behind the ones it's allocating me... Needless to say, they didn't understand that they were talking nonsense. Does the system deliberately try to seat people apart to encourage them to pay to sit together?

It leaves empty rows probably to distribute the load evenly. They wouldn't want the thing to be tail heavy.