Ryanair ---- Now Too Much Hassle?

Steve_xx

phatbear wrote: »

Flew RA to Berlin last week and even with the booking fee, baggage fee etc etc we still could'nt find the flights cheaper elsewhere, add to that schonefeld is about to become "the" berlin airport.

I think most peoples issue is the potential to avoid the fee's but the hoops you have to jump through, if they just added the £6 on each ticket and didnt mention it no one would know, and therefore, mind

Yes you're right, ie if they added £6 to the fare in the first place nobody would bat an eye. But they don't do that, instead they lure you to their site with headline-grabbing pricing and it's not until you're well on your way to completing the transaction that you realise that there are a lot of other charges to consider and it is this that annoys people.

Imagine if we went to the supermarket and each item paid for at the checkout had to have supplementary charges added in the way that Ryanair add them; we would be appalled at it. But of course if this sort of thing is left unchecked then that could become a possibility. Ryanairs example did in fact provide Easyjet and the others with the idea to charge for hold baggage. These ideas do catch on.

richardw

Steve_xx wrote: »

Ryanairs example did in fact provide Easyjet and the others with the idea to charge for hold baggage. These ideas do catch on.

Flybe were the first in the UK to charge for hold luggage, but you're correct these ideas do catch on and businesses monitor what others are doing.

Steve_xx

richardw wrote: »

Flybe were the first in the UK to charge for hold luggage, but you're correct these ideas do catch on and businesses monitor what others are doing.

Ah right I didn't know that Flybe were the first to charge for hold luggage.

It's a ridiculous state of affairs when one is charged to actually pay for something. It beggars belief that it's allowed to happen.

2sides2everystory

Steve_xx wrote: »

It's a ridiculous state of affairs when one is charged to actually pay for something. It beggars belief that it's allowed to happen.

You are so right, Steve.

CPRs outlaw a number of commercial malpractices. One is this:

Offences relating to unfair commercial practices

11. A trader is guilty of an offence if he engages in a commercial practice which is aggressive under regulation 7.

7.—(1) A commercial practice is aggressive if, in its factual context, taking account of all of its features and circumstances—

(a)it significantly impairs or is likely significantly to impair the average consumer’s freedom of choice or conduct in relation to the product concerned through the use of harassment, coercion or undue influence; and

(b)it thereby causes or is likely to cause him to take a transactional decision he would not have taken otherwise.

MeanExpat

I wonder whether the paying fees (unless you have the flavour of the month card) are a non taxable revenue for a limited company like Ryanair.

Don't understand who pays the airport charges when I don't.

Don't understand who pays the staff and kerosene when I don't.

Even the highest priced flights are lower than similar flights 30 years ago.

Lots of mysteries surrounding cheap flights.

Maybe best not to rock the... plane, it seems too good to be true.

But it's the shame for the carbon footprint.

Alisha2008

The main source of income for Ryanair is the money that the local governments pay them to take tourists... the money NEVER comes from the flights themselves, which we all know won't cover the price of fuel, staff, etc.

tomjonesrules

Steve_xx wrote: »

Yes you're right, ie if they added £6 to the fare in the first place nobody would bat an eye. But they don't do that, instead they lure you to their site with headline-grabbing pricing and it's not until you're well on your way to completing the transaction that you realise that there are a lot of other charges to consider and it is this that annoys people.

Imagine if we went to the supermarket and each item paid for at the checkout had to have supplementary charges added in the way that Ryanair add them; we would be appalled at it. But of course if this sort of thing is left unchecked then that could become a possibility. Ryanairs example did in fact provide Easyjet and the others with the idea to charge for hold baggage. These ideas do catch on.

Come to the USA - tax is not included in any advertised prices, and sometimes the rate can vary, and indeed sometimes there can be two different taxes. No one bats an eyelid here.

2sides2everystory

tomjonesrules wrote: »

Come to the USA - tax is not included in any advertised prices, and sometimes the rate can vary, and indeed sometimes there can be two different taxes. No one bats an eyelid here.

Yeah right. Since when has the USA developed a model we might want to follow ?

MeanExpat

Quote:
It appeared briefly yesterday, but sales must have taken a dive as they have now removed it.

The security code IS STILL THERE on RyanAir.com/site/en.

We, savvy users of this forum, know what to do, but what about the rest of the population. Will they book quicker to avoid the hassle or look for another company?

On another subject, booking early certainly does not guarantee cheap flights.

Steve_xx

MeanExpat wrote: »

Quote:
It appeared briefly yesterday, but sales must have taken a dive as they have now removed it.

The security code IS STILL THERE on RyanAir.com/site/en.

We, savvy users of this forum, know what to do, but what about the rest of the population. Will they book quicker to avoid the hassle or look for another company?

On another subject, booking early certainly does not guarantee cheap flights.

You may need to clear the cache, cookies and browsing history from your pc in order to stop Ryanairs site taking you to the 'security' page.

As far as I can there is now no way of avoiding Ryanair's credit card fee, other than using their new-fangled debit card.