Ryanair new website -"Find Lowest Fares" option

budgetflyer

Its obviously "work in progress" as by ticking the "my dates are flexible" you now get offered a choice of flights around the dates you select. By clicking the "next week" button, you can then view the next 7 days worth.
So contrary to previous posts, you can easily find the lowest fares.
Also as soon as you click a selection , the FULL price is displayed on the RH side.
This after the initial bit of getting used to the new format, I think will be one of the most user friendly airline booking sites

peter999

budgetflyer wrote: »

Its obviously "work in progress" as by ticking the "my dates are flexible" you now get offered a choice of flights around the dates you select. By clicking the "next week" button, you can then view the next 7 days worth.

It's a bit inflexible.
Definitely work in progress & will drive people mad.

Keep getting error message as you try to move through dates.
Select Next Week or Previous Week, get following error:

"Your outbound date range cannot overlap your return date range"

The way it is now you can't adjust & scroll through to have the Out/Return dates within a few days of each other !!

peter999

LesD

peter999 wrote: »

It's a bit inflexible.
Definitely work in progress & will drive people mad.

Keep getting error message as you try to move through dates.
Select Next Week or Previous Week, get following error:

"Your outbound date range cannot overlap your return date range"

The way it is now you can't adjust & scroll through to have the Out/Return dates within a few days of each other !!

peter999

You can if you move the 'Coming Back' section first - or vice versa if going the other way!!!

It's gonna take some getting used to the new site. For those who don't keep an eye on this thread, there are gonna be many gripes with the continual changes.

But at least it's good to now get more than just one alternative price shown.

peter999

LesD wrote: »

You can if you move the 'Coming Back' section first - or vice versa if going the other way!!!

It's gonna take some getting used to the new site. For those who don't keep an eye on this thread, there are gonna be many gripes with the continual changes.

But at least it's good to now get more than just one alternative price shown.

The silly thing is, you can move the "Coming Back" section, but then you cannot return it where it was, you get the error again.

Even if you move "Coming Back" section once, you still can't move the "Going Out" section. You have to move the "Coming Back" section twice.

It should work the way you would logically expect, you scroll through & it just shows dates that do not overlap instead of continually giving error messages.

peter999

LesD

peter999 wrote: »

The silly thing is, you can move the "Coming Back", but then you cannot return it where it was, you get the error again.

peter999

Works for me - so long as you haven't moved the first flight too which then causes the dates to overlap.

peter999

LesD wrote: »

Works for me - so long as you haven't moved the first flight too which then causes the dates to overlap.

Try this:
Choose airports.
Leave dates as default, Out 2/3, Come Back 8/3
Select Dates are Flexible & search flights.

Select Next Week on Coming Back section, works ok
Select Previous Week on Coming Back section, get error.
(the dates are not overlapping, you are just returning to where you were)

Even worse it misses out a day in the return flights, it doesn't show Tue 11/3 for return flight, even though there are flights on that day.
It misses out the first day of the next week.

peter999

LesD

peter999 wrote: »

Try this:
Choose airports.
Leave dates as default, Out 2/3, Come Back 8/3
Select Dates are Flexible & search flights.

Select Next Week on Coming Back section, works ok
Select Previous Week on Coming Back section, get error.
(the dates are not overlapping, you are just returning to where you were)

Even worse it misses out a day in the return flights, it doesn't show Tue 11/3 for return flight, even though there are flights on that day.
It misses out the first day of the next week.

peter999

Missing out the 11th is a bug in their system. Because they only show 6 days in the range, the 'next week' goes to those equivalent days.

But, when trying to return to the first selection the 5th March is an 'overlapping day' which is why you get the error.

As has been said, they have lots of work to do to get these things sorted on their new website. Seems to be a classic case of 'blunder programming'!

peter999

peter999 wrote: »

Try this:
Choose airports.
Leave dates as default, Out 2/3, Come Back 8/3
Select Dates are Flexible & search flights.

Ryanair have now removed the "Dates are Flexible" option.

peter999

peter999

LesD wrote: »

Missing out the 11th is a bug in their system. Because they only show 6 days in the range, the 'next week' goes to those equivalent days.

But, when trying to return to the first selection the 5th March is an 'overlapping day' which is why you get the error.

As has been said, they have lots of work to do to get these things sorted on their new website. Seems to be a classic case of 'blunder programming'!

The "Dates are Flexible" option is back.

They seem to have solved the missing day bug, but the scrolling backwards/forwards on weeks still doesn't work very well.

I think the website programmers should go back to Uni, study some logic or maths, as really it's incompetent to not sort out the simple logic of what to display.

peter999

peter999

Just checked MSE's Flightchecker against Ryanair's own website & it found all the same cheap fares I was looking at, so it works good.

MSE's Flightchecker does better job than Ryanair's website as you don't have to keep clicking on Next/Previous Week all the time to scan through the days/weeks/months when checking flight prices & dates.

Flightchecker
http://flightchecker.moneysavingexpert.com/

peter999