MSE News: Ryanair 'sticks two fingers up at passengers' with new card fees

Bob_the_Saver

chrisboote wrote: »

But they're NOT cheap!
Once you add on all the fees, especially if you're a family taking luggage, they are usually the same price as BA - and on BA you get the surety of another flight if something goes wrong, plus free drink & snacks

BA don't fly to any of the 6 airports that I use a lot and nobody else fly's me from the south of France to Bristol for 8 euro's all in.

2010

Final word for the moaners.

Ten minmutes ago I booked a return Birm to Malaga flight in November for the grand total of £23-98.

Hand luggage, free online check in, using a Fairfx card.

That`s why we love RA, cheap flights is what people want. :T

Bob_the_Saver

chrisboote wrote: »

But they're NOT cheap!
Once you add on all the fees, especially if you're a family taking luggage, they are usually the same price as BA - and on BA you get the surety of another flight if something goes wrong, plus free drink & snacks

Actually BA did leave me stranded in Ireland some years ago with no flight back for 2 days. THAT'S why I started using Ryanair.

2sides2everystory

According to WD last night you can get instant acceptance online for their new card.

Someone was dissembling were they not? We are not interested in instant acceptance - that goes without saying, we are interested in obtention, activation and ease of use - and that is 3 days minimum judged from the small print I read.

Painting a picture of being crushed by a donkey is a diversion which in this thread can only indicate some reflection of the passing of so many years or of the heaviest bits of an aircraft that smash through forests and buildings when things go wrong, but twisting historical statistics of which you clearly either have no understanding or with which you aim to assert your blind view of the truth about what influences future risk in one particular airline is surely wrong? Historical statistics are not a safety cloak.

The real point is that if this airline will not change its ways, there is surely an unacceptable conflict between the type of airline leadership that is continually giving two fingers to sundry taxpayer funded national regulators (let us not fool ourselves that it is just our overworked OFT) and the type of airline leadership that can be trusted to be properly accountable for the safety of 75 million passengers a year powered by taxpayer subsidised aviation fuel.

They are not even a UK company.

If they won't change their ways, take away their taxpayer subsidised accommodation.

I too write as someone who has just bought another Ryanair flight, but that is hardly surprising is it? They have elbowed their way to a monopoly position. They're top of the castle and should have stopped being dirty rascals a long time ago.

malkie76

We are not interested in instant acceptance - that goes without saying, we are interested in obtention, activation and ease of use - and that is 3 days minimum judged from the small print I read.

Sorry, I should have been clearer - the suggestion on WD was that you can apply online, get instant approval and immediately load the card and use it to pay for flights. 3days not required.

but twisting historical statistics of which you clearly either have no understanding or with which you aim to assert your blind view of the truth about what influences future risk in one particular airline is surely wrong? Historical statistics are not a safety cloak.

I never claimed they were a safety cloak - I'm merely stating the fact that air travel is safer than car travel. There's not a point to debat there, it's a simple fact.

richardw

2sides2everystory wrote: »

They are not even a UK company.

Yes, even though they have aircraft based in the UK with Irish registrations.

Should they have a UK subsidiary with aircraft that are based in the Uk with Uk registrations?

2sides2everystory

malkie76 wrote: »

Sorry, I should have been clearer - the suggestion on WD was that you can apply online, get instant approval and immediately load the card and use it to pay for flights. 3days not required.

Well if that is true then it is better than I thought, but in that case, why not make 'the card' so virtual that the airline customer does not even have to know it exists?
Let the customer "load" Ryanair's account in time-honoured non-mind boggling ways? Now there's an idea ! Maybe I'll patent a virtual card network with no wires and no new card numbers!

I never claimed they were a safety cloak - I'm merely stating the fact that air travel is safer than car travel. There's not a point to debat there, it's a simple fact.

It is not a fact at all, it is merely an obtuse assertion and would only ever be stated by someone arguing that a safety cloak existed in the airline business. Statistics are used by poker players, casino bankers and politicians. Statements employing relative safety statistics are usually no more fact than me stating that I am safer than you are because I haven't had a smash for years and anyway I'm older and wiser

I mean, can you imagine, if 2sides2everystory came up behind a traffic cop next week doing ninety-five heading to Stansted (on his way to yet another ontime arrival) and as he went by 2sides gives both fingers from one side to the traffic cop ?

Then what? Traffic cop says to his mate: "Haha, did you see that? - he's a card that 2sides, so typical of him, you have to smile sometimes, but he's safe, never had to scrape him off the road yet, nice car, told me he gets it serviced regular last time I pulled him over and gave him a warning, bet he's headed to the airport, better not interrupt him, else he'll be late, then there'll be trouble!"

Can't see it, can you? :rotfl:

omelette451

2sides2everystory wrote: »

Can't they see the game is up ?

Can't you see that it's not? Ryanair passenger figures have gone up steadily over the last two decades, and there's no sign at all that this is about to change. Yes people like you are ranting, but they always have. Ryanair has a huge market base and will continue to attract new passengers as well as returning customers. No question of it really!

omelette451

2sides2everystory wrote: »

We already saw O'Leary sending one of his aircraft into forecast possible ash danger areas to make his personal point that he thought it was safe. Do you really think his aircraft have always evaded ash when it's been out there somewhere as forecast? Do you really think he knows best about everything?

The first airline to send planes through the ash cloud was British Airways. Would you say the same about them?

mikeeboy

2sides2everystory, I can't work out if you're a comedian or just arrogant?

Anyway, the jobsworths won't be happy until all card charges are abolished. Then the £6 will go into the usual taxes/charges or on the flight price, so instead of most people paying it, we'll all have to pay.

That's progress for you.