Ryanair to charge for airport desk check-in

budgetflyer

peterbaker wrote: »

What are you on about budgetflyer?? Are you on something this evening? You do seem to go through periods of sideswiping in between your more sensible posts!

Ryanair is not a charity, nor a scarce resource to be carefully husbanded for the benefit of all. 'Valuable flights' is also as much a complete misnomer as 'free flights' is in Ryanair's marketing :rolleyes: .

You surprise me ... you have obviously completely forgotten that Ryanair is not in the business of selling tickets to passengers, it's in the business of selling passengers to airports! It makes not one iota of difference to your pocket if I use a flight or not ... in fact it probably helps keep the prices even lower because the fuel burn will be that much less without my 140 kg and that's probably greener than letting someone else take my seat too!

So none of your totally misplaced moralising about wasted flights please! I am just doing my bit to save my sanity and the planet

What Im on about Peter, is the way you constantly berate Ryanair. Expect them to behave like a full service airline in the old fashioned sense but at the same time you buy and discard their cheap flights on a whim. This means you have wasted a seat someone else could have had for a penny or tenner, as these offers are limited.The plane therefor flies with more empty seats, which is an uneccessary waste of fuel.
If there was a reverse penalty for no shows on these cheap deals folk would maybe not book Mon, Tues and Wed and decide later which day to fly.
If by your theory, Ryanair are in the business of selling passengers to airports, advertisers and regions, its not going to work if you dont show up, is it ?!!

The reason they can do these sales is by stripping extra costs to the bone. Check in staff are an extra cost, as are baggage handlers, paper tickets and telephone operators.
If you dont use these services, dont need priority boarding, dont need to phone them, then you can be away for buttons. Want the extras-pay for them.
Ryanair , from a Motley Fool point of view,were a few years back what I would have considered "Rule Breakers", upstarts taking on the establishment. Now, I think they could be seen as "Rule Makers". They call the tune, set new parameters and the "old establishment" huff and puff, but eventually follow

peterbaker

The plane therefor flies with more empty seats, which is an uneccessary waste of fuel.

I tried to be humorous about my side of that argument B_F, but since you seem to prefer a precarious path as an admitted flyer (sod the planet) and one who seeks to cast rods out of the other fellow's eye then I suggest a rethink.

If there was a reverse penalty for no shows on these cheap deals folk would maybe not book Mon, Tues and Wed and decide later which day to fly.

True, but there isn't is there? Ever wonder why? BTW I don't block book quite so profusely, although I am sure some have done so!

If by your theory, Ryanair are in the business of selling passengers to airports, advertisers and regions, its not going to work if you dont show up, is it ?!!

True, and that's true consumer power - control of one's own destiny and all that!! BTW It wasn't my theory - I read it here ages ago on MSE, but I still think it's a pretty cogent summation of their business model!


Anyway, I have good news for the masses ...
I have it on good authority that Ryanair have completed all the initial mandatory inspections on their 138 or so 737-800s :T

(MSE'ers will recall the recent China Airlines wingbolts-could-puncture-fueltanks-could-burst-into-flames-problem?). So then, that's a relief!

Dunno how Ryanair did that so fast without us noticing too many cancellations but hats off to them for rapid compliance a good week or even ten days ahead of the 24 day FAA deadline I think?