£5 are NOT available, have a look! (Ryanair)

unreal_3

Go see for yourself, ryanair are advertising £5 flights to Wroclaw, Poznan, Lodz, Gdansk, of which NONE are available on ANY of the dates advertised.

There needs to be a complaint to an offical watchdog for misleading advertisement... How can I do this?

Mr_Lahey

unreal wrote: »

Go see for yourself, ryanair are advertising £5 flights to Wroclaw, Poznan, Lodz, Gdansk, of which NONE are available on ANY of the dates advertised.

There needs to be a complaint to an offical watchdog for misleading advertisement... How can I do this?

I am a fan of Ryanair and was just about to come on and say how there are only so many seats available etc.... Then i realised that the offer only started today, i had a quick look and couldn't find any either. (Only checked LON)

http://www.asa.org.uk/

BusPass_2

I didn't book but there were £5 flights available In March this morning from Glasgow Prestwick to Paris.

leew

Mr_Lahey wrote: »

I am a fan of Ryanair and was just about to come on and say how there are only so many seats available etc.... Then i realised that the offer only started today, i had a quick look and couldn't find any either. (Only checked LON)

http://www.asa.org.uk/

Don't bother writing a letter of complaint to here as i did but got one back saying as Ryanair don't have a registered office in the UK we are unable to act :mad:

Just thought i'd save you wasting your time

inflationbusting

I'm certain the sale was on yesterday as I almost booked something.

I think midnight is the time the prices change.
Fare quotes when booking is real-time, the front page is not.

If it says £5 now, it's possible that there was a £5 fare at 12.05am this morning. Therefore it should be pulled tonight and the next level fare up would be shown (£14.99 which is £9.99 + £5 checkin) - for Wroclaw as example.

The fares underneath the airports do update but very slowly I have noticed. I suppose if anyone wanted to compare, you could get a screen grab at the very start of the sale.

fifeken

unreal wrote: »

Go see for yourself, ryanair are advertising £5 flights to Wroclaw, Poznan, Lodz, Gdansk, of which NONE are available on ANY of the dates advertised.

There needs to be a complaint to an offical watchdog for misleading advertisement... How can I do this?

The sale started over 11 hours before you posted. Did you check then? If there was one seat available then they'll be allowed to advertise it.

busiscoming2

unreal wrote: »

Go see for yourself, ryanair are advertising £5 flights to Wroclaw, Poznan, Lodz, Gdansk, of which NONE are available on ANY of the dates advertised.

There needs to be a complaint to an offical watchdog for misleading advertisement... How can I do this?

£5 inc Birmingham to Gdansk on 9th March, but it does say only 1 left!

inflationbusting

Incidentally, I also looked on BA on their sale for London - Rome, which is shown as from £49 one way for dates before end of Feb.

Damned if I can find one at that price.

The worst culprits IMO: Easyjet Holidays. Go to the deals page and there is all sorts of tempting deals for the next months ie: Athens 3* from Luton, 2 nights, 24-26 Feb, £99. Non-existant by the time you come to book. The worst is that there is deals from 2009 still on the page.

MarkBargain

unreal wrote: »

Go see for yourself, ryanair are advertising £5 flights to Wroclaw, Poznan, Lodz, Gdansk, of which NONE are available on ANY of the dates advertised.

There needs to be a complaint to an offical watchdog for misleading advertisement... How can I do this?

There are a million £5 flights for sale according to the Ryanair front page. I looked at flights from Stansted to Gdansk and could not find one!

Also, I have noted that even the promotional fares seem to carry the £5 online check-in fee recently.

fifeken

£5 flights from Prestwick to Belfast available on 22 days in March. No online check in fees.

There's even a couple of days when at least 25 seats are available for £5 each.

However, if Ryanair fly approx 65 million passengers per year, this comes down to just over 5 million a month so this promotion should see 1 in 5 flights in March for this price. At that level I would expect more people to find availability than seem to have done going by this thread.

stoneman

inflationbusting wrote: »

I'm certain the sale was on yesterday as I almost booked something.

I think midnight is the time the prices change.
Fare quotes when booking is real-time, the front page is not.

If it says £5 now, it's possible that there was a £5 fare at 12.05am this morning. Therefore it should be pulled tonight and the next level fare up would be shown (£14.99 which is £9.99 + £5 checkin) - for Wroclaw as example.

The fares underneath the airports do update but very slowly I have noticed. I suppose if anyone wanted to compare, you could get a screen grab at the very start of the sale.

That has got to be one of the lamest excuses yet. You should get a job in their PR department