Ryanair. Is total price really total price?

M4RKM

this is the holiday planning forum, surely this should be in the flights forum?!

wallbash

Play by there rules and you can get very good prices

Could not have put it better.

alanrowell

KonkyWonky wrote: »

Play by there rules and you can get very good prices, if you want bells and whistles on then simply use an airline that gives you that.

Play by their rules - and hope the flight doesn't get cancelled / delayed - and you can get...

KonkyWonky

alanrowell wrote: »

Play by their rules - and hope the flight doesn't get cancelled / delayed - and you can get...

Delays/cancellations are not unique to Ryanair, if you check the following link it gives details of delays etc. Ryanair actually have a better record than most of its competitors ie other budget airllines.

http://www.flightontime.info/index.html

Shiny.Side.Up

BusinessStudent wrote: »

Please can we stop all this Ryanair bashing. If you pay using a Visa Electron and only take hand luggage you can get some superb deals on flights. I have NEVER been riped off with Ryanair. These are the prices I have paid

(All flights from Birmingham)

2p return to Belfast, UK
£10 return from Dublin, Ireland
£40 return to Rome, Italy (with 1 suitcase and airport checkin)
£40 return to Berlin, Germany (with 1 suitcase and airport checkin)
£10 return to Krakow, Poland

Please don't take this as a critism of you, butI'm looking for cheap flights out to Belfast so this caught my eye... But I can't find Belfast on the list from Birmingham?!

alanrowell

KonkyWonky wrote: »

Delays/cancellations are not unique to Ryanair

Where did I say that? I was referring to Ryanair's rather unique idea of "customer service" if a flight is delayed or cancelled

BusinessStudent

Shiny.Side.Up wrote: »

Please don't take this as a critism of you, butI'm looking for cheap flights out to Belfast so this caught my eye... But I can't find Belfast on the list from Birmingham?!

Sorry. Let me correct

From Birmingham

£10 return to Krakow, Poland
£10 return from Dublin, Ireland

From East Midlands

2p return to Belfast, UK
£10 return from Dublin, Ireland
£40 return to Rome, Italy (with 1 suitcase and airport checkin)
£40 return to Berlin, Germany (with 1 suitcase and airport checkin)

MrSmartprice

alanrowell wrote: »

I suspect that if Ryanair had made the up front price £50 with no extra fees then people would be happier

Well, I wouldn't! But then I always pay by Electron card. And always travel with cabin baggage only because I don't take a caseload of unnecessary cr*p! So why should savvy travellers like me be penalised because some people want to play by their own rules, not Ryanair's?:rolleyes:

I enjoy lots of cheap flights with Ryanair, subsidised by those who choose not to do it the cheap way. I too have been to Dublin for 2p return. Also, Alicante £10 return, Malaga £10 return, Madrid £2 return etc. And next weekend I'm off to Prague for £10 return. No-one else matches these prices, and Easyjet certainly can't compete these days.;)

Shiny.Side.Up

BusinessStudent wrote: »

Sorry. Let me correct

From Birmingham

£10 return to Krakow, Poland
£10 return from Dublin, Ireland

From East Midlands

2p return to Belfast, UK
£10 return from Dublin, Ireland
£40 return to Rome, Italy (with 1 suitcase and airport checkin)
£40 return to Berlin, Germany (with 1 suitcase and airport checkin)

THanks! Managed to find it - Much cheaper than other prices we've been quoted!

Fen1

My original post was just wanting to know whether the price system was totally transparent. It still isn't as far as I'm concerned. That's why I tend to go with other airlines when I can.
I just wanted a bit of help with what exactly is owed.
I get fed up with 'total' when it blatantly isn't.
Yes, I could go 'round the houses and check the small print, but I would much rather just have a straight-forward payment system where total means total, even if I pay a bit extra for it. EasyJet etc make their profit on simple people like me.