Thoughts on RyanAir

[Sun Wukong]

So, I was already planning to start this thread... and then the devious parasites went and initiated their plan to ruin up to 400,000 people's holidays.

Excellent.

Well, anyway, not leading at all, but how do you feel about this particular business.

Poll options are loose attempts at covering the main opinions I have found on them.

Feel free to rant or defend, both are equally interesting.

Have you ever been extorted by them? What do you think about their business model?
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[t121anf]

Why anyone would book with Ryanair is beyond me.

[MCN]

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I never voted because they are cnuts.
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[M.C]

[Tracey Suntan-King]

VILE

You forgot that option in the poll.

I'd rather travel by cattle truck, or, in the event of a lack of cattle truck, stay at home.
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[JonB]

You pays your money, you make your choice.

I have little sympathy for people who decide to book with a cheap operator who are then stunned to discover that their contracts with pilots are so poor that they are all defecting to rival airlines. Of course, Ryanair are refusing to concede that is actually the case.

If I am going to go budget I go with EasyJet. Ryanair is an absolute last resort, as is Flybe.
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[TbirdX]

Only used them once. No problems so can't complain really, but I'd be right royally fucked off if they cancelled my flight at short notice.
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[Ste]

Play by their rules and be very careful to follow their t&c's and you've got very cheap flights.

They make no secret about just how expensive their extra charges can be and it's well known that they're the most basic of all the cheap shitty no frills airlines.

People know what they're letting themselves in for if they fly with Ryanair so I've little sympathy for those daily mail sad faces with their stories about being fucked over by them.

Cancelling flights is crappy but it sounds like a very Ryanair thing to do IMO.

[Diggs]

As Ste says, know what you are getting. You don't book National Express and expect the Orient Express.... Learn to sleep from 'emergency demonstration' to the warming little fanfare at the end and you don't feel a thing.

As for cancelling flights, it is indeed a shitty thing to do and it shows what happens when a Co. operates with no slack in its system.
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[Polarbear]

I agree with the 'know what you are getting' and you should be protected with the cancelled flights by getting new ones and accommodation paid by Ryanair.

The problem seems to be that the people stranded abroad get to the airport to find their flights cancelled and no one there from Ryanair to help them. If you have just had a holiday, spent all your money as you have a flight home booked it is totally unfair to be left to fend for yourselves, maybe with kids and no money for accommodation or new flights.

Saying all that, I hope Mr. O'Leary gets screwed into the ground
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[M.C]

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[CaNsA]

[Rogerborg]

It's the free market performing exactly as it should. Providing (or not providing) the service that people are (or aren't) prepared to pay for.

Those who can afford it can simply buy alternative flites and then sort it out later. Those who can't can earn their way back by doing favours for tired travellers in the toilets at Barajas International.

Free market.
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[arry]

Had used them a couple of times and were alright - can deal with the herding and the constant upselling fine right enough.

However then things turned to pot. Used them to get to a meeting in Belfast and they bumped me from my morning flight as they'd over-subscribed it. Don't worry they said, we'll get you on the next one. Fabulous - I'll only be 4 hours late for my 2 hour meeting and if I'm really quick in building a time machine I might be able to scarper across the airport fast enough to get my booked flight home, which takes off 10 minutes before my new flight out there lands on the deck.

They didn't seem to understand or give a toss about this 'slight hiccup'.

Now you could argue you get what you pay for, but I don't think anyone expects to be put in a situation where their entire journey is a write off before it even starts.

[angryjonny]

I would prefer to travel half as much and use a better airline.

Never flown Ryanair. Never plan to.

I don't have a problem that they exist. They don't pretend to be anything other than cheap transport that treats its customers as self-loading freight. I choose not to use their service but others are welcome to.

My problem is that once decent airlines like BA are now offering Ryanair levels of service in an attempt to compete, but without matching Ryanair prices. BA have such massive overheads if they think they can compete with Ryanair on price, sell your BA shares now - they're in the process of doing an M&S.

[Sun Wukong]

[Rogerborg]

[Tracey Suntan-King]

Vile.

As I said earlier and reinforced by SW comments above.

We recently started flying with a company called Blue Air. Admittedly, they are nowhere as big as Ryanair but they fly a route we use a lot.

Blue Air fares are definitely in the economy class but on their flights, (four and half hours for us) included in your very reasonable fare, are drinks, an in-flight meal, more drinks and a snack. They also give you blankets and pillows. We've not had a problem so far with Blue Air and never paid more than £90.

Ryanair are increasing the number of flights to Cyprus next year.

There is absolutely no way we would ever fly with them, no matter how cheap.

Michael O'Leary can shove his planes right up his hairy, Irish arse. Pikey

Edit: My point is that a low volume carrier like Blue Air can cost in excellent service yet Pikeyair's model of stripping out costs while surreptitiously increasing non-fare extra charges has led to a reduction in already poor standards. Blue Air run on a shoe string and are still as good as BA used to be.

That's it I'm off to pack
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[Sun Wukong]

[Sun Wukong]

All the PR for you, Mr O'Leary.

Build yourself a nice big brand. Get some nice pictures of yourself playing with a toy plane. Lose $60 million minimum, and the small shred of credibility you had left.

I am John's complete lack of sympathy.


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"Oh and STE balloons would be one of the nicer things we would receive at the office, the amount of dog turd in jiffy bags is not funny." Jsmith86

[Codezombie]

My thoughts?

"Ryanair - Stress Testing the structural integrity of aircraft landing gear since 1994."

How they have not managed to pancake an aircraft into the runway is still something of a mystery.
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