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A quick thank you (Ryanair)
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They are great for the types who are prepared to fly at terrible times to airports far out of the city
that you are meant to be flying to and pay over the odds for food and drink or go without.
Then travel with next to no luggage unless you want to pay £35 each way.
Yes, if you are prepared to go somewhere no one wants to go you will get it cheap
The Customer Service is at best a joke at worst plain rude and unhelpful
The enquiry call centre only open 9am-5;45pm monday-friday and closed all weekend,Then you have to pay £1 a minute for any type of help or advice on the phone and many people here have said they have been kept waiting for 30 plus minutes.
At the end of the day you get what you pay for and if you are that skint that you are prepared to put up with this type of low cost low class carrier then good luck.
I spent a nice weekend in Venice earlier this year - Ryanair flew me for virtually nothing to Treviso and a bus was waiting for a pleasant 45 minute journey to Venice costing around €6.
I had everything I needed in a rucksack, I didn't require feeding or watering on such a short flight and I didn't need customer relations because I followed Ryanair's clearly stated booking conditions.
The plane was clean and modern and staffed by polite,cheerful attendants.
Like most Ryanair flights I take it was on time and fully booked.
Unlike BA I ran no risk of my flight being cancelled due to industrial action by flight attendants who are routinely rude and arrogant.
Thank you Michael O'Leary.0 -
Read with interest - I've always regarded travel with ryanair as a battle of wits between me and Mr O'Leary - trying to ensure that I don't pay anything other than the base price! This has got steadily more difficult - to the point where now I have to pay for online check-in. This is an add-on, yet it's impossible to avoid! How can he justify not including this in the base price?0
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ericonabike wrote: »Read with interest - I've always regarded travel with ryanair as a battle of wits between me and Mr O'Leary - trying to ensure that I don't pay anything other than the base price! This has got steadily more difficult - to the point where now I have to pay for online check-in. This is an add-on, yet it's impossible to avoid! How can he justify not including this in the base price?
It's a simple choice of economics really.
Is the Ryanair fare - even with online check-in added - still cheaper than the competition ?0 -
whatmichaelsays wrote: »British Airways are as bad as anybody in that regard. Why, when I ask to fly to London, do they offer to land me at an airport 40+ miles away?
The key reason I use Ryanair, other than the price, is their support of regional airports. Willie Walsh has no right to paint the word "British" on his planes when his idea of "Britain" extends no further than a glorified shopping complex in Middlesex and an airfield in Crawley.
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Erm they also fly into london city airport - which, you guessed it is in the city....
and Ryanair use luton gatwick and stansted which are all outside of london if i remember correctly...
Im all for Ryanair and the cheap flights as they do just what you say on the tin."If you no longer go for a gap, you are no longer a racing driver" - Ayrton Senna0 -
Jeff_Bridges_hair wrote: »Erm they also fly into london city airport - which, you guessed it is in the city....
and Ryanair use luton gatwick and stansted which are all outside of london if i remember correctly...
Im all for Ryanair and the cheap flights as they do just what you say on the tin.
I'm not saying that they don't.
But it's wrong for BA, the other legacy carriers and their supporters to point at Ryanair and scream "Look at them. Aren't they naughty?!" when BA are guilty of exactly the same thing, on top of their refusal to support "British" airports.Hi, we’ve had to remove your signature. If you’re not sure why please read the forum rules or email the forum team if you’re still unsure - MSE ForumTeam0 -
ericonabike wrote: »Read with interest - I've always regarded travel with ryanair as a battle of wits between me and Mr O'Leary - trying to ensure that I don't pay anything other than the base price! This has got steadily more difficult - to the point where now I have to pay for online check-in. This is an add-on, yet it's impossible to avoid! How can he justify not including this in the base price?
Book a ticket on a flight that has online check-in included. There are plenty of them about.Hi, we’ve had to remove your signature. If you’re not sure why please read the forum rules or email the forum team if you’re still unsure - MSE ForumTeam0 -
Bob_the_Saver wrote: »Yes, you're right there but reading the forums there are just so many of them. I blame the parents.
You know, secretly, I think they just want the days of 300 pounds aeroplane fares to/from Europe to come back. It's definitely some sort of illness
Speaking of Ryanair's "far out destinations" - all but one of the Polish destinations are within 5 miles of the city centre. Not bad, is it?From Poland...with love.
They are (they're) sitting on the floor.
Their books are lying on the floor.
The books are sitting just there on the floor.0 -
whatmichaelsays wrote: »I'm not saying that they don't.
But it's wrong for BA, the other legacy carriers and their supporters to point at Ryanair and scream "Look at them. Aren't they naughty?!" when BA are guilty of exactly the same thing, on top of their refusal to support "British" airports.
They do support British airports though so im not sure what you are trying to say. And they have every right to paint BRITISH on the side of their planes given that they were called British airways before they were privatised.
If I was a foreigner coming into Stansted or Luton i would be aggrieved to find I wasn't in London - Heathrow is still classed as London."If you no longer go for a gap, you are no longer a racing driver" - Ayrton Senna0 -
I'll agree when I get my compensation out of them...0
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Jeff_Bridges_hair wrote: »They do support British airports though so im not sure what you are trying to say.
They do? They don't even fly to Gibraltar anymore. They barely fly to many UK destinations - look at how BA Connect was sold off to Flybe.
London Airways is a much more appropriate name!From Poland...with love.
They are (they're) sitting on the floor.
Their books are lying on the floor.
The books are sitting just there on the floor.0
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