Ryanair - Comments & Feedback Thread

nico26

Need help regarding online check in with hand luggage.I now Need to bring back some study books now for hubby on return leg. I am not sure of weight of the books and it might put me over. Do I need to alter my booking to add baggage for the return flight before I go or can I do it before my return.

mr_maniac

Hi there,

I present to you all, today, a problem. I've got myself and 3 other 18 year olds looking to fly out to Friedrichshafen (in southern Germany) on the 29th of June, returning on the 9th of July. This means flying from London Stansted using Ryanair, but of course, this is Ryanair we're talking about, so it ain't that simple.

The question is - is there any way of telling when the price of flights will suddenly go up or down? Including 1 bag each (and subsequently airport check-in), the four of us, had we booked the flights yesterday, would have paid (I've checked this, as we went as far as the payment processing screen) £254.64 for our return flights. This price seemed quite reasonable, and was about £80 lower than it had been a couple of days previously, because the outbound flight did not include taxes! With this in mind, the four of us agreed that we would try and sort out payment for the flight within the next 10 days or so.

However, I have re-checked the Ryanair site today, with the same booking details and flights as before, and suddenly the price has rocketed! The outbound flight now has no fare, but over £100 of taxes/fees/charges, meaning that the overall cost of the flights and bags comes to £327.32 - such a large price rise would make a significant difference to our spending power whilst we're out there, since we're all students and not made of money!!

So then, what do we do? Wait it out and hope the price falls again, but risk the flights becoming sold out altogether (there's just the one flight per day to Friedrichshafen from Stansted, and vice versa), or book now and take the painful extra price hit, but save ourselves from paying a potentially even higher price?

Please help!!! Stupid Ryanair, why do they have to be this way?!

Cheers,

mr_m

richardw

mr_maniac wrote: »

the four of us agreed that we would try and sort out payment for the flight within the next 10 days or so.

You can't hang around with Ryanair.

mr_maniac

This much is apparent! - Now you see, hindsight is a wonderful thing, but it doesn't help save money on this occasion! And we're not in a position where we can easily get hold of over £250 between us within 24 hours, and since we're now on half term, won't be able to meet up until that sort of timeframe anyway!

The thing is, you can never tell if the price is going to suddenly rise, or suddenly drop - I wasn't expecting the price to go up again, not so suddenly anyway, but we're caught between wanting the 'peace of mind' of having the seats booked no-matter-what, and a desire to try and spend as little on getting there as possible, so that we can spend more actually having a holiday when we get there - and we all know what Ryanair are like with their sudden sales as you edge nearer the date!

mr_m

dealsearcher

Second guessing Ryanair? Vive le sport!

You are leaving before the end of the summer term so you are not going in the more expensive holiday time. It's already over four months away so you would be booking early. I am not sure why the cost is so high. Only one flight a day doesn't help. Maybe there is a convention going there on 29 June and they have booked up the flight? Try 1, 2 or 3 days either side.

albalad

just tried for a nearby(ish) aiport Hahn , which had free flights one way and £0.79 flights return (exc taxes) and it still came to over £280 - £114 of which is airport check-in , hold baggage charges .

When you take away the check- in charge it is only around £50 pp , which is not too bad for a 2.5 hour flight

Do you need a hold bag ?


unless they have another £5 - no taxes promo (probably , but when ) you are unlikely to get it much cheaper . As your flight out is FREE and your return is only £2.79 + taxes

mr_maniac

Hi dealsearcher and albalad -

Yes, we'll need the baggage, because we're camping for 10 days - it's a shame that Ryanair are so incredibly harsh in their baggage charges, but they have to make their money somewhere. We don't have a problem with paying them, but it becomes an issue when you start getting all these extra taxes and things chucked in...

Yesterday, the outbound flight had the caption "NO TAXES", whereas it now says "Regular Fare", which is actualy £0.00 for the outbound flight, but with £112ish of taxes/fees/charges - which is £112 more than it was yesterday! However, that price is now about the same as it was earlier this week, before the NO TAXES thing kicked in all of a sudden...

Going outside of the summer holidays was part of the plan, Dealsearcher - I've tried going a few days either side, but it's still pretty much the same fare of £220ish excluding bags...

I don't think £50pp person is bad at all, and it was more than reasonable yesterday when it came to just over £60 each, with bags included - but why has it suddenly gone up £75 in one day!? And when's it coming down again!!!

Thanks for your help

mr_m

dealsearcher

... and if one of you has an electron card you avoid the debit / credit card charge. Remember that is for each person and each sector - so times eight.

terryw

albalad wrote: »

When you take away the check- in charge it is only around £50 pp , which is not too bad for a 2.5 hour flight

Do you need a hold bag ?

Most people take far too much stuff anyway! If packed properly into the maximum size"hand" bag it is amazing how much stuff can be carried on board.

Does a small party of travellers require four industrial size hair-driers, four containers of giant size hair shampoo, four sets of curling tongs etc etc? Consider sharing hold luggage bags or buying cosmetics and the like abroad.

terryw

alanrowell

Second guessing Ryanair? Do something useful with your life instead like banging your head against a brick wall. It's more productive.

Only advice I can give is book when you like the prices AND DON'T LOOK AGAIN