Ryanair ---- Now Too Much Hassle?

tingtong

Steve_xx wrote: »

On here we're all going on about the Ryanair charge for paying. I'm sorry, but I cannot believe that you have booked a flight, cost conscious as you are due to the fact that you're posting on a money saving site, and you don't know what you paid for it.

I understand your points, ie that the deal was the right one for you, and that's ok of course. I understand your frustration at the Ryanair "baggage police" too.

I can actually believe it, as I now very rarely venture onto the Ryanair website when looking for flights. The only time I find Ryanair cheap is if you fall into some (or all) of the following categories:

* You don't mind where you are flying to (just looking to go anywhere)
* Very flexible with your travel dates
* Don't take hold luggage
* Have the required card to avoid the payment fees

I normally have an good idea on dates (slightly flexible), know where we want to go to and take 1 20kg bag in the hold. For these reasons, Ryanair almost always work out more expensive for us personally.

Steve_xx

tingtong wrote: »

I can actually believe it, as I now very rarely venture onto the Ryanair website when looking for flights. The only time I find Ryanair cheap is if you fall into some (or all) of the following categories:

* You don't mind where you are flying to (just looking to go anywhere)
* Very flexible with your travel dates
* Don't take hold luggage
* Have the required card to avoid the payment fees

I normally have an good idea on dates (slightly flexible), know where we want to go to and take 1 20kg bag in the hold. For these reasons, Ryanair almost always work out more expensive for us personally.

Yes I'm sure you are correct in that once you add a hold bag to a Ryanair flight then it will almost invariably be more expensive that the rest.

However, I'm quite happy living with the 10kg hand luggage maximum in return for a cheaper flight.

2sides2everystory

Steve_xx wrote: »

I'm sorry, but I cannot believe that you have booked a flight, cost conscious as you are due to the fact that you're posting on a money saving site, and you don't know what you paid for it.

Did I say I did not know what I paid for my EasyJet flight?? Perish that thought, Sir! I thought I just said I didn't check the Ryanair alternative?? Those of us who know a good deal don't have to scrape websites to save money

I'm quite happy living with the 10kg hand luggage maximum in return for a cheaper flight.

Well that's plenty fine and dandy - if you are happy then you just carry on living with arbitrary inconvenience dreamed up for your delectation and Ryanair's profits, Steve.

The rest of us will no doubt intersperse the odd Ryanair flight with something more confrontation-free as suits and otherwise befits quite interesting and economically led lives and exploits of our own packaging.

There's really something to be said for a bit of variety you know

Steve_xx

2sides2everystory wrote: »

Did I say I did not know what I paid for my EasyJet flight?? Perish that thought, Sir! I thought I just said I didn't check the Ryanair alternative?? Those of us who know a good deal don't have to scrape websites to save money
Well that's plenty fine and dandy - if you are happy then you just carry on living with arbitrary inconvenience dreamed up for your delectation and Ryanair's profits, Steve.

The rest of us will no doubt intersperse the odd Ryanair flight with something more confrontation-free as suits and otherwise befits quite interesting and economically led lives and exploits of our own packaging.

There's really something to be said for a bit of variety you know

So the answer to my very simple original question is surely, yes, you paid markedly more for your EasyJet flight, but that you are happy to do so basically to avoid the "baggage police"?

magenta22

I flew with Ryanair once, never again.
The flight was more expensive than any of the bigger name airlines, the cabin staff were unhelpful and miserable and the seats have no legroom.
There are far too many hidden extra's on their website

Badger_Lady

magenta22 wrote: »

I flew with Ryanair once, never again.
The flight was more expensive than any of the bigger name airlines, the cabin staff were unhelpful and miserable and the seats have no legroom.
There are far too many hidden extra's on their website

Why on earth would you book the most expensive flight? For their great service reputation?

richardw

Steve_xx wrote: »

yes, you paid markedly more for your EasyJet flight,

Where does he say 'markedly' ?

Steve_xx

richardw wrote: »

Where does he say 'markedly' ?

He didn't. I asked if he did. If you look again at my post you will see that it ended with a "?".

Where does it say that "he" is a he?

2sides2everystory

Steve I really don't like you insinuating for no reason it seems than because it inexplicably suits your somewhat hamster-nibbling agenda that I must have paid markedly more to fly Easyjet than I would have done had I bent myself into the kind of shape they pack in (at Ryanair).

Richard knows his stuff - he's been round the block a time or two - I fancy he knows a 'she traveller' might choose their words differently just like the Easyjet captain who appeared in the cabin an hour before landing in Stansted and brushed off an enquiry from a surprised but entranced gentleman queueing for the toilet who started pointing over her shoulder and mouthing "Er shouldn't you be up front flying ... ?" using self-effacing language like "Oh it'll be fine - there wasn't much going on" which endeared us all to her clearly superior leadership qualities:p

What about you Steve, are you really a Stephanie with hitherto unappreciated assets ? Ryanair's very own stand-in for their Hit and Miss November/December, perhaps?

Steve_xx

2sides2everystory wrote: »

Steve I really don't like you insinuating for no reason it seems than because it inexplicably suits your somewhat hamster-nibbling agenda that I must have paid markedly more to fly Easyjet than I would have done had I bent myself into the kind of shape they pack in.

Richard knows his stuff - he's been round the block a time or two - I fancy he knows a 'she traveller' might choose their words differently just like the Easyjet captain who appeared in the cabin an hour before landing in Stansted and brushed off an enquiry from a surprised but entranced gentleman queueing for the toilet who started pointing over her shoulder and mouthing "Er shouldn't you be up front flying ... ?" using self-effacing language like "Oh it'll be fine - there wasn't much going on" which endeared us all to her clearly superior leadership qualities:p

What about you Steve, are you really a Stephanie with hitherto unappreciated assets ? Ryanair's very own stand-in for their Hit and Miss November/December, perhaps?

It was a very simple question. Did you pay more for the EasyJet flight than the equivalent Ryanair offering? Just answer it or say you're not going to answer it and let that be an end to it for goodness sake.