Cheap Ryanair Flights Discussion Area

rogercr

It's obvious that we ordinary individuals whom expect things to be in an organised, honest and straightforward fashion that are paying for your flights and everyone like you. If everybody paid 2p there would not be a Ryanair. Try the sums and look at past profits and you will see what most people pay. Why does booking a flight to see your grandmother have to be treated like a lottery. Why does 'time expired' keep popping up when I'm trying to understand and deal with the nonsence we have to go through when booking?

Pollycat

rogercr wrote: »

It's obvious that we ordinary individuals whom expect things to be in an organised, honest and straightforward fashion that are paying for your flights and everyone like you. If everybody paid 2p there would not be a Ryanair. Try the sums and look at past profits and you will see what most people pay. Why does booking a flight to see your grandmother have to be treated like a lottery. Why does 'time expired' keep popping up when I'm trying to understand and deal with the nonsence we have to go through when booking?

Roger
There's a lot of 'ordinary individuals' who only pay a few pence for flights - it's called 'playing by Ryanair's rules'.

Of course Ryanair couldn't afford to sell every ticket for 2p - and continue to make a profit.
It's the people who DON'T have a Visa Electron card and who HAVE to take hold luggage and who MUST board the plane before most of the other passengers etc etc who make Ryanair their profit.

Why is booking a flight with Ryanair a lottery?

I don't know why you keep getting the message 'time expired' - unless you're taking too long to complete the booking process.

Have you considered booking with another carrier?

rjdjcd

Have beaten the Ryanair luggage system by using old fashioned parcel mail a week in advance to send 20 kg

dmg24

rjdjcd wrote: »

Have beaten the Ryanair luggage system by using old fashioned parcel mail a week in advance to send 20 kg

How did you get the items home?

Pollycat

rjdjcd wrote: »

Have beaten the Ryanair luggage system by using old fashioned parcel mail a week in advance to send 20 kg

dmg24 wrote: »

How did you get the items home?

And how much did it cost?

mdf000

I don't see what the problem is. Just imagine the £1 flights as £6 flights. That still sounds like a bargain to me. Don't forget, there's plenty of other parts of the chain out there to sting you. Airport parking, transfers, the banks with their exchange rates. Even a £10 flight is a bargain. Do you really expect to be able to travel hundreds of miles, by air, for a pound. It costs me more to get into town on the bus! As it happens, I have just booked a return flight for two to Milan in November. If I had chosen to go 2 days earlier, it would have cost me £4. Despite them being a large corporation, that isn't fair. I'm ripping them off. A pint costing more than a return trip to Milan! As it happens I chose to fly 2 days later and it's cost me £35 in total, for 2. That's still an absolute bargain. What reality do people live in? Planes and fuel cost a fortune in comparison. How can you expect to really get one for a £1. So what if it requires you to sign up for an electron card. That cost me an extra £2.40 or something. As for the possibility of a hideous experience... I'm prepared to take that risk for less than £40. And if you're going to complain, expect it to take over a year. Of course they're going to fob you off. That would be my first response if I were in their shoes. You paid next to nothing and now expect £250 compensation. I don't really want to stick up for Ryanair but some of you people need a reality check. If it doesn't make them money, their not going to be able to do it forever. Pay your way! The transaction has to be fair for both parties.

PS I still won't be retracting this paragraph if I'm sat in Bergamo trying to find an alternative airline on my way back...

mdf000

By the way, Entropay Electron card can be used straight away as they give you a virtual card number etc to use. No waiting in the post. Not sure what others offer.

BusPass_2

mdf000 I agree with you.

While I can afford, if I wish, to take expensive holidays my humble beginnings and habits instilled in me as a child by very wise parents who were, by the way, typical of their generation and in no way mean; I prefer to play the Ryanair game.

Marseille, Paris, Dusseldorf (OK it's an ex air base out in the country), Rome, Milan. etc etc all for less than the price of a pint. I don't mind putting myself out a bit and play by their rules.

I got something from Fred Olsen the other day featuring cruises costing thousands.

I prefer to sit on a Mediterranean beach for a fortnight, having got there under my own steam for less than a student spends in the Union on a Friday night.

savingqueen

Hi anyone know how often Ryanair offers v cheap flights throughout the year? We want to go to Cork (from London) in one of school hols next year but not the summer break. Have all the cheap deals already finished or a reasonable chance they could offer last minute deals? We rarely fly so I haven't a clue.

I know there's no guarantees but anyone using Ryanair on this route frequently or in the know generally? Don't know whether to book Feb now at more money that I'd hoped would cost or wait til later in case cheaper deals for any of the hols before summer. We are on a very, very tight budget but coaches etc out as have young children.

any info at all really really appreciated
TIA

Bengt

savingqueen wrote: »

Hi anyone know how often Ryanair offers v cheap flights throughout the year? We want to go to Cork (from London) in one of school hols next year but not the summer break. Have all the cheap deals already finished or a reasonable chance they could offer last minute deals? We rarely fly so I haven't a clue.

I know there's no guarantees but anyone using Ryanair on this route frequently or in the know generally? Don't know whether to book Feb now at more money that I'd hoped would cost or wait til later in case cheaper deals for any of the hols before summer. We are on a very, very tight budget but coaches etc out as have young children.

any info at all really really appreciated
TIA

I thought school holidays usually were blacked out, meaning promotion prices would not be available.