Ryanair cancelling flights
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Magaged to avoid these ***** for the last 6 years after an absolute debacle. Looking to take the girlfriend away in a few weeks and the only reasonable flights were Ryanair for where we were looking.
Guess she will have to make do with Blackpool!
Guess she will have to make do with Blackpool!
Taking her up the tower?
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The CAA are holding Ryanair accountable to EU law. That's one thing about the EU, they have the balls to hold the biggest companies to account.
I'm not so sure the consumer will get the same level of protection from BJ and co. when we're out, and I'm speaking as someone who received over £2k compensation when a transatlantic flight got delayed a few years ago. Without strong laws, these companies will simply do what they like, as O'Leary has just attempted to do.
I'm not so sure the consumer will get the same level of protection from BJ and co. when we're out, and I'm speaking as someone who received over £2k compensation when a transatlantic flight got delayed a few years ago. Without strong laws, these companies will simply do what they like, as O'Leary has just attempted to do.
You're in for a treat;been a scorcher all day and they're still banging out pints of Dorado and San Miguel for a Euro, so keep a look out. Oh and hope you manage to fly back via these jokers to you're mini snes!Just arrived at Tenerife with Ryanair.....
Just arrived at Tenerife with Ryanair.....
Sorry to inform you that your return flight have been cancelled.
While I admire your determination in avoiding that cowboy outfit run by O'Leary, I find it hard to believe that anyone would voluntarily go to Blackpool for a holiday.
Your girlfriend must love you to bits to even contemplate that place.
I'd never, ever, consider having a break in the U.K., but if I suffered a blow to the head, and suggested somewhere in this country for a few days away, my wife would say, "Have a good time, and don't forget to face-time me."
I hope you're joking, because that's pure nonsense.
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She must be fun
Sorry that you feel that way FoxEye, it may be nonsense to you, but it wasn't to me.
I went to Blackpool years ago, and wasn't impressed, then I had the opportunity to go again, maybe 15-18 years ago now, and thought why not, surely it can't be that bad can it?
We were supposed to be there from Friday lunch time until Monday morning, in a quite reasonable 3 or 4 star hotel, with my wife's brother, and his wife.
I suffered the Friday night, but after a very good dinner in a nice restaurant, the rest of the night was a whirl of drunken women on hen nights, guys ****** and blinding, a couple of fights, some toothless northern prat accusing my sister-in-law of eying up her broken nosed obnoxious boyfriend, and then walking back to the hotel past people vomiting in the street, and one enthusiastic couple, banging away doggy style, while the woman was bent over a car bonnet.
We'd gone up in my sister-in-law's car, so I said to my wife that I couldn't have another two nights like that, I'll give you a couple of hundred quid, and I'll get a train home, she said, "Keep the money, I'll come home too."
As for the rest of the U.K., I'd seen it all, from Devon to Dundee, and Kent to Kendal, as a truck driver, some great scenery, but nowhere I'd want to spend any time at, if I couldn't at least cross the Channel to France, I'd rather be at home in London.
Are we planning to remove these laws post-Brexit? I must have missed that.
but as someone else pointed out earlier that in part acts as a motivator for companies to cancel flights rather than risk them being delayed, personally I'd rather be delayed for a few hours than have an entire flight cancelled and miss a whole day of holiday or be forced to take an extra day's holiday from work on the way back etc..
no, as they are meant to pay another company to fly you, which is what Ryanair is now in trouble for.
its how i got back from america years ago, although it did take several hours on the phone for them to own up and book me onto their competition.
All they have to do is refund or offer a replacement flight of their choosing if it’s more than two weeks before your flight, which presumably is most of the flights they have cancelled.
Cancelled 15 days before you’re due to fly? SOL with compensation, just have to hope the alternative they offer is reasonable or take the refund and try and book another flight with someone else. If that’s over a busy period (such as Christmas) then prepare to bend over and/or scrabble to change all your holiday plans when you’re flights end up being changed by a couple of days. This has happened to me twice.
Edit: Not quite as clear cut as I first though. A few sources suggest id they can’t offer a “reasonable” alternative then you have the right to ask for them to put you on a flight with an alternative airline. Has there been a recent judgement (in the last 18 months) as that never used to be the case?
Guess it also depends on what’s considered “reasonable” - within 2-3 days? Within 24 hours when there’s a flight with a different airline the same day? If the airline plays hardball with that then it’s not like you have any real option.
Most places don’t mention this however so it’s questionable how well known or correct this is... Either way airlines have a significant uplift in responsibility at the two week limit, and again at the one week limit so they benefit from cancelling earlier rather than later if they think there may be a problem.
Cancelled 15 days before you’re due to fly? SOL with compensation, just have to hope the alternative they offer is reasonable or take the refund and try and book another flight with someone else. If that’s over a busy period (such as Christmas) then prepare to bend over and/or scrabble to change all your holiday plans when you’re flights end up being changed by a couple of days. This has happened to me twice.
Edit: Not quite as clear cut as I first though. A few sources suggest id they can’t offer a “reasonable” alternative then you have the right to ask for them to put you on a flight with an alternative airline. Has there been a recent judgement (in the last 18 months) as that never used to be the case?
Guess it also depends on what’s considered “reasonable” - within 2-3 days? Within 24 hours when there’s a flight with a different airline the same day? If the airline plays hardball with that then it’s not like you have any real option.
Most places don’t mention this however so it’s questionable how well known or correct this is... Either way airlines have a significant uplift in responsibility at the two week limit, and again at the one week limit so they benefit from cancelling earlier rather than later if they think there may be a problem.
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they might be in trouble for that but it is likely cheaper than these fines as in a lot of cases they can offer alternate space on their own flights - ergo there is some incentive to be quite brutal with these cancellations rather than push things and end up with delayed flights etc..