budget airlines...ryanair etc

You pays your money you takes your choice.

Tom and Alex getting stuck at Luton airport overnight on the way back from Amsterdam: 'Stelios, you t***'.

You can of course use the fact that airports are far away from where the airlines nominally fly to to your advantage, you could, for example, go to Ravenna from Forli as easily as Bologna, or Verona from Milan (Bergamo) or Venice (Brescia).

Ryanair set for £8 flights to US
Ryanair jet landing
Ryanair plans to undercut its struggling competitors on prices

Budget airline Ryanair is to offer flights to the US for eight pounds, by buying planes from struggling rivals.

The plan will be revealed when chief executive Michael O'Leary announces the firm's quarterly results on Monday.

"Economy class will be very cheap, around 10 euros, but our business class will be very expensive," he said in a newspaper interview.

is there no antitrust law in the uk?

oh god soon ryanair is gonna be the only airline left in the whole world isn't it

"Economy class will be very cheap, around 10 euros, but our business class will be very expensive," he said in a newspaper interview.

lol society

Ryanair charged ill passenger for tea and biscuits as he feared heart attack

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/ryanair-charged-ill-passenger-for-tea-and-biscuits-as-he-feared-heart-attack-1.1060542

yeah but he was faking it tbf.

and they only charged him after it turned out he was a chancer looking for a free cuppa.

Wife in "pissed off she had to break into a 20euro note", um, shocker.

it's not that bad really is it. i mean...their charging him for a biscuit didn't affect his health. it's just sort of mean spirited.

'ryanair in mean-spirited' is basically the lead-in par excellence for a lazy 'shockah' finish, tbf

Can't wait for O'Leary's interview response though-

"We've never claimed to be the NHS of the airways" would be a good one, I might mail him that one and see if I can get a scripting gig.

"if passengers want to pay an extra tenner for a defibrillator, i'll bloody resuscitate them myself. i'll give them mouth to mouth for an extra 2.50 and a handjob for the full twenty quid!!!"

Matt, The figures show that only 1% of our passengers suffered heart attacks on board in the past year- now, using our pricing structures, we've clearly allowed people to make the choice, and the majority are saying they're happy not to have a heart attack and enjoy our permanently lower fares

my dad bought that book of "o'learyisms"...sadly.

I'd listen to him all day, but this craic about 'we need o'leary in as minister for finance' or whatever, not really

4 Des O'Connor 1-2-3 O'Leary Nov 1968

In what could be a landmark legal ruling with implications on the airline’s charging policies across Europe, Judge Barbara Maria Cordoba of the Barcelona commercial court said yesterday it was carriers and not passengers who were obliged to issue boarding cards.

She made the decision in a case brought by a Spanish lawyer, Dan Miro, who objected to being charged €40 for failing to print his boarding card before a flight.

"The normal practice over the years has been that the obligation to issue the boarding card has always fallen on the carrier," she said. "I declare unfair and therefore void the contractual clause in which Ryanair obliges the passenger to be the one who brings the printed boarding pass to travel or face a penalty of €40".

nice

friend o mine told me about her ryanair boarding pass not scanning properly at the airport, and the staff as such being forced to go to the effort of typing her surname into the computer and pressing one button. i can see why that process usually necessitates a €40 charge.

eh mine wouldn't scan once, so i had to go print it again.

i can see the logic of having people do that stuff themselves tbh, but the 40 quid charge is a pisspull. i'd do it myself to avoid having to be there 3 hrs before the flght to check in or w/e

last time we flew Ryanair it was because Easyjet cancelled our flight and there was still a Ryanair one on the boards. went to the Ryanair tickets desk and found out there was a surcharge of about £100/ticket over booking online. one of our party had a laptop with them, so we bought tickets online via the airport wi-fi. ah - but nowhere to print the boarding cards!

so a bit of a wild goose chase ensued, eventually we found someone friendly with a printer at the airport, and when we got to the front of the queue pretty much every single passenger (including us) had their home-printed ones thrown out and a new copy printed by ryanair staff because they were the "wrong size". and yet we'd still have had to pay £30 each if we hadn't waved this useless bit of paper.

fffff.

oh yeah, have had a couple stories like that.

fuck airports that dont have loads of printers available imo. liverpool john lennon i'm looking at you here. had to bus into town and back again to find an internet cafe once, luckily i was uncharacteristically early for that flight.

i've heard a little suspicion about the correlation between airports that don't have any kind of public printing facilities and the crummy rural airports ryanair often opt to use, but i guess since they're crummy and rural anyway it could just be a happy coincidence.

WE’VE ALL HAD a Ryanair experience, but this student’s ordeal might just take the biscuit.

The Sun reports that Adam Armstrong, 19, was due to go on holidays with his girlfriend to Ibiza next week. His girlfriend’s stepfather booked flights with Ryanair and accidentally booked Adam’s ticket under the wrong name.

You see, Armstrong’s name on Facebook had been Adam West, in an homage to the Batman actor, which his girlfriend’s stepfather saw and assumed was his real name.

Once he became aware of the error, Armstrong attempted to change his name on the ticket, but was informed by Ryanair that it would cost him £220 to do so.

And so, he did what any rational person would do and changed his name by deed poll.

After changing his name to Adam West for free, he paid £103 for a new passport and he was sorted, meaning that changing your actual name is cheaper than amending a Ryanair booking.

Speaking on Today FM’s The Anton Savage Show this morning, West outlined his rationale as thus:

Yeah, I’m not giving Ryanair a penny.

And, as West explained, he’s actually made a profit out of the whole fiasco. Not only did he save money on the name change, but he actually came into some cash as a result.

I also got some money from The Sun newspaper.

GOOD MAN YOURSELF.

As for his new name? West told Savage that he intends on changing it back to Adam Armstrong once his latest passport expires.

Changing your name? £103. Sticking it to Ryanair? Priceless.

Lateral thinker of the day.

How much was the flight?

Allez Stan - BH down the line - what else? - for the break.

Lolz sorry wrong thread