Ryanair introduces compulsory £5 charge for online check-in

[skyscraper101]

I'd rather take an age to get somewhere than give those bunch of cunts a penny.

Fair enough.

I don't have the time (or budget) for getting to Ireland by boat sadly. But I absolutely agree with you in generally using the Eurostar where possible to get to mainland Europe as it is a lot more competitive with the airlines on speed and cost. And heaps more fun.

 

[editor]

Fair enough.

I don't have the time (or budget) for getting to Ireland by boat sadly. But I absolutely agree with you in generally using the Eurostar where possible to get to mainland Europe as it is a lot more competitive with the airlines on speed and cost. And heaps more fun.

According to the superb Seat61 site, London to Dublin costs £29 each way and you get a travelling experience approximately 5 thousand times more pleasant.
http://www.seat61.com/Ireland.htm

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

According to the superb Seat61 site, London to Dublin costs £29 each way and you get a travelling experience approximately 5 thousand times more pleasant.
http://www.seat61.com/Ireland.htm

ah, but what about Dublin to Clare or anywhere in Ireland?

 

[T & P]

*waits for Cobbles*

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

and if you are checking your own baggage through what's to stop you putting liquids from your hold baggage into your hand luggage, eh? eh? thought that one through michael? KABOOOOOOOOOOM.

presumablled it'd be the liquid bomb surcharge ryan air will introduce being to punative to be affordable to the average impoverish nations terror teams...

 

[Kameron]

They're utter cunts, and most people who fly them are fools not to realise by the time they finish paying all the supplements and extra fees, there is often little or no difference between it and other airlines.

Other airlines which don't treat their customers like shit and which owners don't take pleasure in publicly humiliating and scorning them, I should add.

Why do you have such a problem with this? You don't given them your business, I certainly don't. However if people do find that they prefer to be told their flight will be much cheaper than it turns out to be who are we to prevent them from having that option?

It isn't as if they aren't all at it to a greater of lesser extent: American saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served FFS.

 

[skyscraper101]

According to the superb Seat61 site, London to Dublin costs £29 each way and you get a travelling experience approximately 5 thousand times more pleasant.
http://www.seat61.com/Ireland.htm

It's not a bad price. But still the eight hours or so travelling means you'll inevitably end up spending money along the way unless you're really determined and pre pack all your food and drink. I find it near on impossible to avoid the bar though on any boat crossing lasting longer than an hour

Plus, those connecting trains would have to have no delays along the way. Sod being stuck in Hollyhead for a night when you miss the boat after a delayed train. There's a safety window of just over an hour between arriving at Hollyhead and setting sail. Not sure I'd want to risk it. Still £60 isn't bad if you've got the time, granted.

 

[spring-peeper]

Ryanair to make passengers load baggage on planes


LONDON - Ryanair has announced plans to make passengers carry all of their own luggage on to their planes.
Ryanair to make passengers load baggage on planes

The airline is hoping to axe 90% of its baggage handlers and instead allow passengers to carry their own luggage to the plane.

The move has been met with dismay by the airport industry amid concerns that it will make the already tedious security check in process even longer. There is also concern that travellers with bulky luggage to carry are unlikely to splash so much cash in Duty Free.

Ryanair's chief executive Michael O'Leary, commented: ‘What it means is no more waiting at the carousel, no more losing your bags, no more wasting your life in over-priced airport terminals.'

Budget airline Ryanair has taken no-frills to new levels and also has plans to introduce a charge to use the toilets onboard. The airline plans to reduce the number of toilets onboard in order to cram in more seats.

Additionally from October the airline is abolishing check in facilities and will instead demand that all passengers check in online.

Isn't there a law about how many toilets a plane can have? I'm fairly certain that I know of planes that had to reduce the number of passengers due to a toilet being out of order.

And as for his (potential) firing of employees - great, more unemployed people

As for his crack about wasting my life inside a terminal waiting for my luggage - Dude, it's far more pleasant than standing out in the rain on the tarmac while you toss the bags off the back of the plane - CATCH!!!

Geez - I can't stand this type of airline!!!!

 

[fogbat]

Jesus wept, I'm just imagining what a long-haul flight with Ryanair would be like.

You'd probably have to pay them to switch the lights down.

Unfortunately, a "lights down" option is unavailable.

For your comfort and convenience, however, in exchange for paying a £10 "blinding fee", the co-pilot will come around and poke you eye.

 

[Kameron]

Come on everyone just be grateful you don't work for them, this is how they treat their customers, imagine the penny pinching cost saving that must be going on behind the scenes.

 

[T & P]

Famously they banned employees from charging mobile phones at work, for all the 0.02p's worth of juice it was going to cost that O'Leary cunt.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Isn't there a law about how many toilets a plane can have? I'm fairly certain that I know of planes that had to reduce the number of passengers due to a toilet being out of order.

And as for his (potential) firing of employees - great, more unemployed people

As for his crack about wasting my life inside a terminal waiting for my luggage - Dude, it's far more pleasant than standing out in the rain on the tarmac while you toss the bags off the back of the plane - CATCH!!!

Geez - I can't stand this type of airline!!!!

I can imagine people seeing a nice fancy bag and thinking they'll nick that instead of their own one

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Why do you have such a problem with this? You don't given them your business, I certainly don't. However if people do find that they prefer to be told their flight will be much cheaper than it turns out to be who are we to prevent them from having that option?

It isn't as if they aren't all at it to a greater of lesser extent: American saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served FFS.

I don't think TP has realised that not everyone has 21 hours to spare on getting to Ireland by bus and ferry which it took me one year. My legs were so dead, my leg buckled at the end of the journey and I fell over. My knee's been fucked every since

 

[Cobbles]

I absolutely agree with you in generally using the Eurostar where possible to get to mainland Europe as it is a lot more competitive with the airlines on speed and cost.

So long as you don't live North of Watford.............

 

[mattie]

So long as you don't live North of Watford.............

Why would anyone in their right mind do that?

 

[teuchter]

Plus, those connecting trains would have to have no delays along the way. Sod being stuck in Hollyhead for a night when you miss the boat after a delayed train. There's a safety window of just over an hour between arriving at Hollyhead and setting sail. Not sure I'd want to risk it. Still £60 isn't bad if you've got the time, granted.

The £29 tickets don't restrict you to a particular sailing. If the train's late you just get the next ferry and vice versa.

You don't have that luxury if you arrive at the airport late.

 

[skyscraper101]

The £29 tickets don't restrict you to a particular sailing. If the train's late you just get the next ferry and vice versa.

You don't have that luxury if you arrive at the airport late.

That doesn't account for the cost of passing the time til the next Ferry. If you miss the Ulysses Cruise Ferry at 2:10pm, you have over 12 hours until the next one at 2:40am the next day!

That's a lot of time to kill without spending extra.

 

[teuchter]

That doesn't account for the cost of passing the time til the next Ferry. If you miss the Ulysses Cruise Ferry at 2:10pm, you have over 12 hours until the next one at 2:40am the next day!

That's a lot of time to kill without spending extra.

The next one is the 17.15 fast ferry.

Also - on the occasions where I've done that route and there have been delays, they'll normally let you go on the Stena ferry instead even if your ticket is technically for Irish Ferries.

In any case, the "safety window" of an hour is actually fairly safe because it only takes a couple of minutes to walk from train to check-in, and if the train's a bit late they'll fast track you through.

Most of the delays I've had doing that journey have actually been down to ferry problems caused by bad weather.

 

[skyscraper101]

I didn't realise you could use the other ferry service for no extra fee. Its not very clear on Seat 61. That is indeed better.

 

[ovaltina]

The times I've flown Ryanair I've found it quite funny the way the cabin crew spend the whole flight running up and down the aisle trying to flog you booze, horrible expensive food, charidy scratchcards "for the kiddies" and perfume, while adverts are piped through the tannoy system and plastered all over the baggage holds. They must be knackered by the end of a shift.

Also, I flew from Stansted on a 6am Thursday flight recently and the place was packed. That's probably peak time for airlines like Ryanair because they can get the cheap slots at destination airports.

 

[teuchter]

I didn't realise you could use the other ferry service for no extra fee. Its not very clear on Seat 61. That is indeed better.

Best to double check because the rules have changed several times in the time I've been using it. But I think this is right.