Let's hear it for Ryanair

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There is a quite wonderful site dedicated to the joys of travelling with Ryanair. A recent sample story is:
Ryanair have had a passenger arrested upon arrival at his destination for complaining and refusing to pay for a sandwich.
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I feel sure that many people here have travelled with Ryanair and thoroughly enjoyed the experience . . . so Let's hear it for Europe's favourite airline - Ryanair . . . queue the Flower Duet . . .
 
I had no money on me on a flight to Prague once, and they refused to give me even any tap water. I had to drink the tap, which was hot, in the toilet in the end.. I couldn't believe it.
 
I have no problems flying with them either. You have to accept everything costs. If you don't want to pay for things, you don't have too. Not sure why people complain some much about them, it's not like they make it a secret that they charge for everything.
 
Windle said:
You get what you pay for. You pay for no-frills, expect no-frills with crap service to boot.
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As he said, for short trips I don't see why not though. Surely you can stand an hour commuting in a dirty cramped subway while standing or so, so you can easily survive 1-3 hour flights on no frills airways...
 
I don't think they deserve so much hate either.

Yes the advertisement messages when you sit down on the plane are annoying, but you only have to listen to them for a short while. Yes they will try and sell you everything possible, but they need to for revenue and it's basically just what you would have already paid for on a more expensive airline.

If you use them for what they were designed for, they can be great. I had a long weekend in Barcelona for £18 return with RyanAir! That's almost as much as it cost me to commute into London everyday on the train when I used to live just outside it!

If you really want to hate such airlines, don't fly on them, simple.
 
Nothing really wrong them. People know what to expect, stop moaning / complaining. Dont fly with them if you dont agree with their principles. And yes, that man should be arrested because it's called "Theft".

It's ok to walk into a shop and steal a Mars Bar?
 
I used to fly them loads cos they flew to some obscure out of the way Airport in Esjberg Denmark, but amazingly it was dead handy for the oil industry workers from London.

anything under a 2h flight id fly with a ***** airline, the damn thing was practically empty nearly every time so id put all the seats arms up and just have a kip along 3 seats.
 
Ryanair are awesome! As is Michael O'Leary.

TheVoice said:
I don't think I'd ever trust an airline - or any company - with a website like that.
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The Ryanair website was originally designed by a student (possibly on work experience) and it hasn't been redeveloped since.
 
=VTA=MANFACE said:
I never fly budget airlines, always BA Business Class. I cannot stand yobs from poor council estates who own consoles in my personal space.
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That's fine if you can afford to do so, however you are naive to think that budget airlines are just full of chavs and scum. There are people out there who see it as a good deal, also there are those who have a second home or have to travel on business a lot, so flying all the time is very expensive if you use a regular airline.

Also since the recession, you've also got the fact that many companies have cut their travel budgets, so a lot more people use such airlines for business travel. Just as an example, the BBC have been flying the F1 sports team (Jake Humphrey, Eddie Jordan, David Colultard etc...) around on RyanAir to the European races. Not sure I'd call them council estate scum.
 
I fly with them all the time to Germany, they're OK but I hate the classical boarding music they play all the time!


=VTA=MANFACE said:
I never fly budget airlines, always BA Business Class. I cannot stand yobs from poor council estates who own consoles in my personal space.
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You'd be surprised with the type of people you'll find on a ryanair flight.
 
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Last time I flew with ryanair they forgot to charge me for a sandwich and drink. From that website sounds like I was lucky I wasn't arrested!
 
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