Ryanair set for £8 flights to US

[T & P]

If Ryanair short haul operations are anything to go by, people would be completely mad to even contemplate going long haul.

- Ryanair prices are always misleading. The immense majority of seats cost many times more than the advertised fee, once you add the 2 million different charges and fees that are added later on.

- Even for LCCs, Ryanair's level of passenger comfort is dismal. No reclining seats, no window blinds, fuck all seat pitch, no courtesy in front of your seat... all shite.

- Consider that when you fly to "Barcelona" you are actually flown to a different province altogether, fuck knows where one can expect to land when flown to "New York" by Ryanair

- They have a piss-poor record of customer service and cancellations without warning (and fuck all subsequent support to those stranded abroad)

- And not that some people would care but O'Leary is a grade-A cunt and Ryanair employees are treated like shit


I'd rather travel inside a sea container carrying black widow spiders than fly that company.

 

[madzone]

Mr Madz is flying to dublin with ryanair next week (allegedly) his daughter booked the flights and managed to get one with no taxes I can't work out how she did it. The entire flight there and back is £6

 

[The Boy]

Mr Madz is flying to dublin with ryanair next week (allegedly) his daughter booked the flights and managed to get one with no taxes I can't work out how she did it. The entire flight there and back is £6

Prob something like the promo that sleazyjet were running where you could get flights for a pound, no taxes.

 

[fen_boy]

Couldn't see this posted already http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/...fer-%a38-transatlantic-shitfest-200811031370/

 

[madzone]

Hmmm - just done a search of the fares (to dublin) and there's a few available with no taxes

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Mr Madz is flying to dublin with ryanair next week (allegedly) his daughter booked the flights and managed to get one with no taxes I can't work out how she did it. The entire flight there and back is £6

I booked myself a flight last week. I'm slightly confused though.

Fare was £1 each each way for me and b/f which comes to £4. The other £16 is £4 e/w debit card fee. The total for the both of us is £20 return

I'm sure it was never £4 each way. I only booked a flight a couple of months ago and don't remember being charged £4 e/w

 

[Oswaldtwistle]

It will be an "experience" all right...it's not the sort of thing that I want to experience. You're welcome to it, mate.

The experience would be the trip to the USA, not the flight itself, which would be something to endure, not enjoy!

I almost certainly won't do this (I've never flown before and don't have a passport) but I can't prentend a small part of me wouldn't be tempted if the 'real' cost was ten or less times that claimed figure.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

ah right

Ryanair Alters Debit Card Charges

VISA ELECTRON REMAINS FREE OF CHARGE​

Ryanair today (Friday 4th July) announced that with immediate effect the fee for debit card payment will be increased to €5 per person, per sector to bring it into line with the Ryanair’s credit card charges. This amendment is required by Ryanair’s credit card providers who will not permit any cost differential between debit card and credit card payments.

As part of this agreement, Ryanair has secured the continuing agreement that Visa Electron will continue for the foreseeable future to be the only free of charge payment method, and Ryanair will continue to promote Visa Electron as its favoured/free payment mechanism for all passengers making bookings or purchasing services on www.ryanair.com

 

[bi0boy]

Visa pay them money to promote Visa Electron.

 

[kyser_soze]

Couldn't see this posted already http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/...fer-%a38-transatlantic-shitfest-200811031370/

*shakes fist*

Damn you!!!

 

[se5]

As I understand it (based on the interview that Michael O'Leary gave on the Today Programme this morning) this is old news that has been dredged up to gain a bit of publicity for Ryan Air on the day they announced their results.

O'Leary said it wont happen for a few more years yet and would only occur if he was able to get some cheap long haul planes from the airlines that he forceast would go bust in the next year or so. He reckons that five full service airlines will go out of business or like Alitalia become insolvent so is hoping to pick up the planes for next to nothing.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Ha ha /Nelson

Profits at budget airline Ryanair have fallen 47% in the first half of the financial year, due to a doubling of the price of fuel.

 

[Cobbles]

Ha ha /Nelson

Profits at budget airline Ryanair have fallen 47% in the first half of the financial year, due to a doubling of the price of fuel.

Passenger numbers are still up 19%.

No doubt the profits would have held up if they'd slapped on a load of fuel surcharges - they didn't.

Good on'em!

 

[Isambard]

Pam Ann on cocksucking flight attendents and it's not women from eastern Europe working for Ryanair.....



O'Leary is a nasty piece of work, if it wasn't for the workers who need the jobs I do wish he'd go bust.

And hasn't the EU stamped down on misleading pricing now?

 

[Divisive Cotton]

I hate Ryan Air so much I'm thinking about starting a web site called Boycott RyanAir

 

[Isambard]

TBH, the times I have looked at them for flights, once you've added in the extras plus the distance of the airports from where you want to go and that the "cheap" flights are always gone anyway, they aren't any cheaper than the flag carriers. So I never bother looking at Ryanair any more.

 

[1927]

Flying to NY with Ryanair will almost certainly work out more expensive than with any other airline.

For a start the return flight with Virgin is only about £40 so the saving is only £24 to start with. Ryanair will fly you to an airport like Stewart and old air force base they are developing as Ny's 4th airport. The cost of getting to Manhattan alone will see your saving disappear, plus Ra will undoubtedly expect you to travel for 7hrs without a drop of food or drink unless you pay an extortionate amount for meal onboard, plus charge you extra if you are foolish enough to nactually want to take any luggage with you!

To even consider flying Ryanair I'd need a bj in economy and she'd have to be bloody pretty!

 

[Blagsta]

Ryanair are bastards. They completely refused to fulfil their legal obligations when they cancelled our flight from Almeria 3 years ago, leaving us stranded in the airport over night and sleeping on the floor.

 

[isitme]

i used flybe this year and the plane had fucking propellors!!

 

[butchersapron]

i used flybe this year and the plane had fucking propellors!!

That make them go up. Jets are just hiding them.

 

[laptop]

O'Leary is a nasty piece of work, if it wasn't for the workers who need the jobs I do wish he'd go bust.

That'd be the workers who are afraid to take sick leave.

Pilots.

Afraid to take sick leave.





I'd rather learn to swim.

 

[isitme]

That make them go up. Jets are just hiding them.

no but these were big ones with 4 spokes, like we were off to bomb germany or something

 

[kyser_soze]

That make them go up. Jets are just hiding them.

I love planes with props!! First time I went to NZ and we were flying from Auckland to Nelson we were in a little 40 seater (or so) prop plane, and got to sit up front in the cockpit, got the pilot to do a little sitghtseeing for the Brit tourists...was aces!!

 

[sim667]

Where have I "self described" myself as a "guerilla photographer" please?

FYI: the first time I went to the US I was on the dole.

guerrilla photography was the name of my website when i first set it up

then i grew up.

 

[editor]

I just checked Virgin's flights and they only charge £40, the rest being taken up by taxes, surcharges and trrrrrist extras.

 

[Isambard]

O'Reilly is trying to big up that he won't go bust and Ryanair is in my guess in about fifth place of airlines about to go bust. But. Don't forget, it's all spin.

 

[Dr. Furface]

I love planes with props!!

Then you're in luck because the next generation of greener plane engines being developed by Rolls Royce are going back to being props. You won't be seeing any for a good few years yet though.