Ryan Air when do they lower prices

zerog

katejo wrote: »

Have just looked again and it is now £80

This could be because someone on a more expensive ticket cancelled a booking, or someone reserved a seat at £55 and then didn't pay (travel agent) so the seat got released. Then it got snapped up by someone else so it went back to £80

And yes sometimes if they see you are connecting from the UK they charge more, or even if you're using a Mac (!!)

jpsartre

antenna wrote: »

The more you look at specific dates and times the more the flight increases in price......and after a while settles down in price again

Nonsense and urban legend.

Mr_Wang

jpsartre wrote: »

Nonsense and urban legend.

Proven.

The amount of times I have seen prices increase, cleared my cookies or changed browsers etc and then seen the price go back down - A few recent examples:

Saudia
Qatar
Air Asia

Saudia went up by about $200, i changed to Chrome and the price had reduced.

Amazon does it too.

antenna

jpsartre wrote: »

Nonsense and urban legend.

So you are saying that no-one has ever checked a flight at say £30 and then checked again and it was £35 and booked it quick,then low and behold 2 days later it was £30 again?

jpsartre

antenna wrote: »

So you are saying that no-one has ever checked a flight at say £30 and then checked again and it was £35 and booked it quick,then low and behold 2 days later it was £30 again?

I'm sure they have, just as I'm sure some people have experienced the opposite. Of course, believers of conspiracy theories only focus on the anecdotal evidence that supports *their* theory

Think about it, the theory doesn't even make any sense.

Mr_Wang

jpsartre wrote: »

I'm sure they have, just as I'm sure some people have experienced the opposite. Of course, believers of conspiracy theories only focus on the anecdotal evidence that supports *their* theory

Think about it, the theory doesn't even make any sense.

Planting a cookie that records recent and repetitive searches of a certain route and date then increasing the price after several looks, thus meaning the passenger potentially pays more for their flight doesn't make sense to you?

Seriously?

AlexMac

Ignoring the cookies issue (which I'm prepared to believe WILL hike prices if you make repeated searches- not just on ryanair) my experience as a regular Ryanair traveller until a year or so ago, was that prices tended to launch dear to catch the nervous early planner , then tumble in February or so, then creep up again, and obviously, be eye-watering close to the departure date. But we did get caught out a couple of times bu booking too early- so who knows? And we never, never checked luggage in- you can pack an awful lot in your coat pockets!

jpsartre

They "tumble" when they have their sales, which usually cover the upcoming 1-3 months.

callum9999

Mr_Wang wrote: »

Planting a cookie that records recent and repetitive searches of a certain route and date then increasing the price after several looks, thus meaning the passenger potentially pays more for their flight doesn't make sense to you?

Seriously?

Conversely, if you've looked at the same flight loads of times and still haven't bought it then it's not enormously likely that increasing the price will make you change your mind and click buy.

This area is full of people going on about their anecdotal experiences claiming that it proves its happening but it proves nothing of the sort. It also cannot be proven wrong. The only way to find out is to get the people in charge of pricing to tell you - and that's never going to happen!

jpsartre

callum9999 wrote: »

Conversely, if you've looked at the same flight loads of times and still haven't bought it then it's not enormously likely that increasing the price will make you change your mind and click buy.

Exactly. It would be akin to having a high street shop with lots of people browsing but nobody buying and the owner thinks the best way to rectify this is by increasing prices. As I said, it makes no sense. Aside from that, airlines have a much more accurate measure of interest in the number of seats actually sold so the theory is poorly motivated as well.