Ryanair add £10 charges to each return trip
Discussion
Many airlines make you check in and then take your bags to the check-in (!) desk to drop them off. I've never understood this but it's how it is. I can't see why RyanAir CHARGE you to do online check in, but you're still going to have to queue at the airport and drop your bag off anyway?
it seems they are taking the approach.
You know that facility other airlines offer for free (includes SleazyJet), well were going to say you HAVE to use it, and HAVE to pay £10 for the priveledge.
Oh, and incase you forget, then that other facility most other airlines offer free (though not including sleazyjet), well we'll charge you £40 to do that..
but hey, we'll still pretend you can get flights for 99p, even if it ends up costing you as much as BA once you've paid taxes, check in costs, baggage costs, and for a coffee on board..
You know that facility other airlines offer for free (includes SleazyJet), well were going to say you HAVE to use it, and HAVE to pay £10 for the priveledge.
Oh, and incase you forget, then that other facility most other airlines offer free (though not including sleazyjet), well we'll charge you £40 to do that..
but hey, we'll still pretend you can get flights for 99p, even if it ends up costing you as much as BA once you've paid taxes, check in costs, baggage costs, and for a coffee on board..
TonyHetherington said:
you're still going to have to queue at the airport and drop your bag off anyway?
Or not, as you have to pay for checked luggage too. So you cram as much as you can into a small suitcase as big as you are allowed to avoid this, then try to run onto the plane before anyone else to try to find somewhere in the overhead storage to put it before it fills up and you have to put it somewhere up the other end of the plane. The joys of Ryanair. Lets just have a one fee for a flight. Full transparency, and particularly no card charges for each person on each flight even though it is just one transaction! B16JUS said:
i was under the impression a budget airline should be that no frills and cheap.
sadly neither of them are no longer that infact it now costs little more to fly ba or iberia and i know what i would choose
J
yeah & it wouldn't be Iberia....sadly neither of them are no longer that infact it now costs little more to fly ba or iberia and i know what i would choose
J
...why bother moaning about Ryanair? They have their business model, frankly it's crap, but hey ho some people must like it otherwise they wouldn't be in business. I wouldn't touch them with a barge pole. These cheapo airlines are rarely that. If you want to book months in advance, not change your booking & fly out of peak periods they are cheap. But then so the same with BA & it's probably a very similar price. I believe they are only surviving becasue they perpetuate the myth that BA & the like are more expensive. Like for like the BA's of this world are no more expensive than Easyjet or Ryanair.
GT03ROB said:
B16JUS said:
i was under the impression a budget airline should be that no frills and cheap.
sadly neither of them are no longer that infact it now costs little more to fly ba or iberia and i know what i would choose
J
yeah & it wouldn't be Iberia....sadly neither of them are no longer that infact it now costs little more to fly ba or iberia and i know what i would choose
J
...why bother moaning about Ryanair? They have their business model, frankly it's crap, but hey ho some people must like it otherwise they wouldn't be in business. I wouldn't touch them with a barge pole. These cheapo airlines are rarely that. If you want to book months in advance, not change your booking & fly out of peak periods they are cheap. But then so the same with BA & it's probably a very similar price. I believe they are only surviving becasue they perpetuate the myth that BA & the like are more expensive. Like for like the BA's of this world are no more expensive than Easyjet or Ryanair.
J
Bit of an odd move. As it stands it is actually possible to get a Ryanair flight without any of their extra charges, by checking in online, only taking hand luggage, using a visa electron card etc. Having a mandatory charge to lower prices seem a bit pointless. Still, if you book right it is stupidly cheap. I'm heading over to Stockholm next month for £22 return, and that includes their rather huge debit card booking fee. SAS would have charged me more like £200
norman156 said:
Bit of an odd move. As it stands it is actually possible to get a Ryanair flight without any of their extra charges, by checking in online, only taking hand luggage, using a visa electron card etc. Having a mandatory charge to lower prices seem a bit pointless. Still, if you book right it is stupidly cheap. I'm heading over to Stockholm next month for £22 return, and that includes their rather huge debit card booking fee. SAS would have charged me more like £200
You do know you're not flying in to Stockholm though, right?Do you reckon passengers could try and charge Ryanair for the cost of printing the boarding card on our own printers etc, probably wouldnt succeed, but could be fun trying.
I am sadly using said 'airline' later in the year. I wanted to use someone else, but other people in our group wanted cheap as chips. I did look at BA but it was more than £100 per person more IIRC, personally I would have paid that. So, really looking forward to my first 'experience', not. If the web site is anything to go by, god help me...
I am sadly using said 'airline' later in the year. I wanted to use someone else, but other people in our group wanted cheap as chips. I did look at BA but it was more than £100 per person more IIRC, personally I would have paid that. So, really looking forward to my first 'experience', not. If the web site is anything to go by, god help me...
LaserTam said:
Do you reckon passengers could try and charge Ryanair for the cost of printing the boarding card on our own printers etc, probably wouldnt succeed, but could be fun trying.
I am sadly using said 'airline' later in the year. I wanted to use someone else, but other people in our group wanted cheap as chips. I did look at BA but it was more than £100 per person more IIRC, personally I would have paid that. So, really looking forward to my first 'experience', not. If the web site is anything to go by, god help me...
I suffered my first experience of them last month.I am sadly using said 'airline' later in the year. I wanted to use someone else, but other people in our group wanted cheap as chips. I did look at BA but it was more than £100 per person more IIRC, personally I would have paid that. So, really looking forward to my first 'experience', not. If the web site is anything to go by, god help me...
Flew Stansted-Bergamo, with only hand luggage and paid the £3 priority fee. To be honest, there was little onboard difference to bmi (which I fly frequently).
Puggit said:
norman156 said:
Bit of an odd move. As it stands it is actually possible to get a Ryanair flight without any of their extra charges, by checking in online, only taking hand luggage, using a visa electron card etc. Having a mandatory charge to lower prices seem a bit pointless. Still, if you book right it is stupidly cheap. I'm heading over to Stockholm next month for £22 return, and that includes their rather huge debit card booking fee. SAS would have charged me more like £200
You do know you're not flying in to Stockholm though, right?
no worse than flying to 'London' Stanstead, or Gatwick for that matterSo .... when you're at your holiday hotel you're supposed to find a computer with an internet connection and a printer to print out a boarding card for which you will still be charged £10. Or you pay £40 when you get to the airport?
Just how can the process of checking in and obtaining a boarding card be regarded as an 'optional extra'?
By the way - if you want an Electron card, open an Easycash account with Halifax.
Ryanair works when nothing goes wrong Gawd help you if there is a 'technical difficulty'. You're on your own.
Just how can the process of checking in and obtaining a boarding card be regarded as an 'optional extra'?
By the way - if you want an Electron card, open an Easycash account with Halifax.
Ryanair works when nothing goes wrong Gawd help you if there is a 'technical difficulty'. You're on your own.
Puggit said:
LaserTam said:
Do you reckon passengers could try and charge Ryanair for the cost of printing the boarding card on our own printers etc, probably wouldnt succeed, but could be fun trying.
I am sadly using said 'airline' later in the year. I wanted to use someone else, but other people in our group wanted cheap as chips. I did look at BA but it was more than £100 per person more IIRC, personally I would have paid that. So, really looking forward to my first 'experience', not. If the web site is anything to go by, god help me...
I suffered my first experience of them last month.I am sadly using said 'airline' later in the year. I wanted to use someone else, but other people in our group wanted cheap as chips. I did look at BA but it was more than £100 per person more IIRC, personally I would have paid that. So, really looking forward to my first 'experience', not. If the web site is anything to go by, god help me...
Flew Stansted-Bergamo, with only hand luggage and paid the £3 priority fee. To be honest, there was little onboard difference to bmi (which I fly frequently).
Coming back was the same, no issues at all, no massive queues at boarding, no problems getting a seat, and off the plane and through customs very promptly.
I totally agree that the way in which they come up with seemingly random fares and load every possible extra on creates unnecessary confusion than one simple figure would, but I found Ryanair no worse than any of the other mainstream ones, and I'd use them again, providing they are still cheaper and or more convenient than the alternatives after all the random loadings.
I understand Ryanair made a big booboo with oil futures and are trying to scrape their losses back.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/ar...
I suppose the issue is that if you decide to not use them, then such businesses will go under. And then BA has your balls in their hands.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/ar...
I suppose the issue is that if you decide to not use them, then such businesses will go under. And then BA has your balls in their hands.
Edited by ShadownINja on Monday 18th May 17:45
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