Ryanair - RYR

...As you probably know, Ryanair was the very first of the low-cost airlines, founded in 1985, really taking off (lousy pun, forgive me!) since their flamboyant Chief Executive, Michael O'Leary started fronting the business in 1988. Founded, as it remains, very much a "no-frills" airline, it competed initially more with bus and coach operators than with existing airlines. That was soon not to be the case though. Ryanair proved that, as a business, ...
...cases went out of business. Ryanair now face low-cost competition from many sources, Easy Jet being the highest profile here, although Central Wings are giving them a good run for their money in Europe. Ryanair quickly gained a rather dodgy reputation, largely fuelled I think by the existing airlines who were flying more than half empty planes and charging grossly inflated prices for their service. Operating various cartels, they managed to make ...

RICHADA 02.02.2006 · Read full review
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...us to go to the Ryanair helpdesk in the next section of the airport. When we walked through to where all the Ryanair check-in desks are, and also their helpdesk, we saw a massive group of people who looked like they were queing for the help desk. I wasn't suprised though because I knew it was a full flight, having checked if the prices of the tickets had gone up in the last couple of days, I found that there were none left for that particular flight. ...
...done lots of research and ryanair itself says that you can fly to the Republic of Ireland with current photo ID, and children flying with adults do not require ID. We had taken my sons birth certificate, just in case, but couldn't find my daughters so took her out of date passport instead. The person at the check-in desk asked if we had birth certificates for the children, so I explained what we had brought and she accepted them with no problems ...

lizngaz 01.09.2008 · Read full review
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Having just come off a Ryanair flight from Italy into London yesterday, I think it is fair to say that I can give the most up-to-date detailed opinions of the Ryanair service, as well as the latest information. Yesterday or any other occasions (flown 30 times with Ryanair), I have never had a problem so I am surprised by all the negative reviews but can understand that a flight could turn into a disastrous nightmare ‘if’ things go wrong. Negatives ...
...other high-cost carriers as Irish Ryanair has saved the day for our pockets. Instead of paying £80+ to hop down to Italy with BA you can travel with Ryanair for only a penny! - How come? Read On... ***Booking, Routes & Website*** Firstly, Ryanair minimises costs by using the magic of the Internet. Flights are booked online through www.ryanair.com, so they do not have the additional costs of paying for telephone operators or travel agents to take ...

evesham1988la 30.07.2004 (16.08.2004) · Read full review
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...that. The trouble is, RyanAir fly from my local airport - Stansted - offer exceptionally low prices - £1.54 per person plus taxes on our last trip to Spain - and have good links to most European destinations that I've needed to travel to for fun and income. Often, the decision to use this airline has not been mine, but a financial decision by former employers. But if the above was all I needed then this review would be over already, with a big fat ...
...to RyanAir than meets the eye. Marketing themselves as the "On-Time Airline", RyanAir do indeed have an excellent reputation for punctuality, and the good news carries on with the aircraft themselves. They're modern, often fitted with plush looking leather seats and the crew are always well dressed, giving the look and feel of much larger, more expensive airline. The no-frills side of RyanAir comes in once you sit down. The cabins themselves are ...

markd_uk 25.05.2006 · Read full review
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...say that I have used Ryanair on numerous occasions and until my last flight I had never had any problems. These I will go into later, first a bit about Ryanair. *************** The Company *************** Founded in 1985 Ryanair are based in Ireland and are currently Europe's largest low-cost carrier (according to wikipedia anyway). Certainly I remember in the news over the past year or so that they seem to keep purchasing new aircraft suggesting ...
...this is quite common with Ryanair in that they rarely fly you to a city's main airport. Their planes are white with blue and yellow colouring, a scheme which is also worn by the crew both on the ground and in the air. **************** Booking flights **************** As an idiot of economics I think that one reason why Ryanair and other low-cost airlines offer such great deals is that virtually everything is conducted over the phone or on the ...

snowblind_supernaut 10.03.2006 (24.04.2006) · Read full review
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...been considering NOT writing another Ryanair review as there seems to be great many on the site already (over 140). However, majority of them are quite old and the last one is from December last year so I decided to describe the Ryanair experience without putting too much of the general factual information into the op. However, to keep the obsession with completeness satisfied, here is some basics, feel free to skip if you know everything or even ...
...Rome, Girona and Brussles. Ryanair uses out-of-the way, smaller airports but I DO feel that the terribly negative opinion on that score is slightly unfair. It is true that as far as big, big cities with multiple airports go Ryanair uses facilities which are often miles away and sometimes even in another country (as in Malmo for Copenhagen). However, for many smaller locations they simply use the local airport and actually being able to fly to those ...

magdadh 04.07.2004 (05.07.2004) · Read full review
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...was semi okay was the Ryanair logo. I got to know that logo. Then something flashed up 'Delay' - great an English word, was I going to get another word to ease my inquiring mind; no. - A blank screen and the fog was descending further and getting worse. - the airport shops were closing down, except for a Kiosk, maybe information has been transporting directly to the Kiosk and it was with-holding vital flight details just to test my Spanish, I got ...
...to the shining beacon the Ryanair logo. He shrugged back and I thanked him. I don't know why but it seemed to help. I communicated and it was useless but at least I moved from my position and stretched myself. By now some other sorry folk had drifted in from the rain and fog, yes it had now started to spit, freezing droplets were forming on the windows; the temperature was dropping; this wasn't looking good. Then another light appeared it said 'EasyJet'. ...

1st2thebar 08.09.2009 · Read full review
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...wasting money on it." So Ryanair came in nicely as it was the only budget airline, I could find, flying to Grenoble from Ireland. They were flying only flying from Dublin which was a but of an inconvenience but it'd have to do. Ryanair played their mind games with me when it came to price. 44.99 euro for the flight out and the flight home was FREE! "My God" says I "This dreadful, prolonged friend isn't costing me a penny to escape from. That's a ...
...but they always are from what I've seen. Their website was easy enough to navigate but don't take their prices on face value they accumulate as you go through the booking process. But relatively they are very cheap. I only wish that Ryanair would fly out from Belfast more. ...

Phelthew 06.07.2008 (07.07.2008) · Read full review
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*The premise* Ryanair sprang up among the rash of budget airlines that helped every Britain take the bare minimum of holidays a year required not to go insane (at least three according to the popular press) and made it possible for every second Briton to buy a delightful holiday home in a former Soviet bloc country where the lawn was trimmed by the goat who happened to be living in the sitting room of said holiday home. Sarcasm aside, Ryanair continues ...
...*Flight booking with Ryanair - more 'will they, won't they?' than Ross and Rachel!* I've had the misfortune to book flights with Ryanair on a couple of occasions and migraine inducing website aside, there's one very significant issue with the airline as a company - lack of trust. Due to the fact that multiple family members have had flights cancelled (costing them £££s in re-booking costs) and because Ryanair are well known for culling their routes, ...

edinburgher 24.09.2009 · Read full review
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...flights were currently available with Ryanair from just 1p each way and this was including taxes!! I had a quick look at the destination and discovered that there was the option of Dublin or Milan as we had both decided to take a week off anyway as we desperately needed a break from work and we had started to get stressed out, I wanted to try and get this break as cheap as possible and when I looked at Milan the flights were not all that cheap so ...
...and stress free and are Ryanair as bad as a lot of my Irish Customers say??? *~*About Ryanair*~* Ryanair was Europe's first low cost carrier airline making it possible to travel around Europe for the cheapest price possible. The airline was set up in 1985 by the Ryan family with just 25 staff a bit of a difference compared to today where they employ 4500 people. The first route commenced in July flying from Waterford to London Gatwick now in ...

KELLYLOUJ 14.06.2007 · Read full review
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...are hundreds of opinions about Ryanair around there, but at first sight quite alarming amount of them seem to be positive. And why are they positive? Because whatever happens to some few thousand unfortunate passengers travelling on Ryanair, there are always tens of thousands of people who enjoy their cheap air travel and with a bit of luck, without problems. NO THRILLS, NO FRILLS. Ryanair has taken to this point a bit too literally. This policy ...
...pushing and shoving than on Ryanair flights, sometimes it seems that a 50p ticket gives you a right to behave like an a***hole. However, since this opinion is about Ryanair rather than the people who travel with them (like myself used to), I’m not going to go into that minor detail any further. In the defence of those people though, I would like to add that this shoving and pushing (in order to get to and from the plane) is usually caused by ...

Heiduli 28.05.2003 · Read full review
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...be an extreme bulk of Ryanair reviews, I feel that I should add my opinion especially as the firm has just take one more radical step into the ever changing world of “no-frills” flying. I must admit, I was sceptical of this company at first, but when I took my first flight with them in February 2004 I began to appreciate what Ryanair had done to transform the world of aviation. Now I would call myself a regular user, generally flying with them half ...
...for long haul flying which Ryanair does not participate in and I think that people should never be concerned booking this airline as they are a cheap and safe way of hopping around Europe. However, only if you play by their rules! == History of the airline== _Skip this section if you aren’t interested in the company’s background_ *Ryanair was launched in 1985 by Tony Ryan with a share capital of just £1, and members of staff totalling just 25. They ...

olster99 22.10.2009 · Read full review
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...far as to suggest that Ryanair tried to murder them. On purpose. In a nutshell, I've used them 3 times in the last 4 years and they were fine. Value for money! ************** Start with the biggy. Look here - they are cheap. Last summer we got 3 people to Italy and back for £120. For that price we are lucky to get a plane with wings. It would have been fair to assume we were going to have to stick our feet out of the bottom and run Flintstone-esque. ...
...your luggage. It's not like Ryanair go anywhere that'll take longer than 3 hours so no-ones going to 'suffer' for long! Check-in ******** Kylie sang 'locomotion' as we stood patiently in the queue. Nah, not really. This is an annoying bit - a big queue requires many staff. Not one. She worked hard, sure. But she was only one. And it took time, and it was annoying, but she did smile and was quite fit. I mean pleasant. It was as efficient as one ...

dhillcrest 09.02.2008 · Read full review
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...of the excellent offers that Ryanair have. Like any budget airline, the price of tickets rises the closer you get to the date on which you are going to fly. If you spot a really cheap flight, it is often better to take it right away as you could go back the next day and the price may have doubled by then. Another thing about the prices of flights, in particular to the continent, is that the return flight is almost always a lot more than the flight ...
...problems. The Flight Ryanair is a no-frills airline and makes no secret of this. Don't expect that breakfast in the little plastic container that you get with more expensive airlines because you won't be getting it. They do have a trolley with snacks on it, but you have to pay for anything you get off it. You can bring your own snacks if you want, that's what I usually do. I have also heard complaints about passengers who find that the planes ...

iatethewholebag 20.12.2003 · Read full review
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...from A to B, cheaply! RyanAir certainly performed in this department and I would recommend it to anyone in a similar situation. Now, when your studying for a Geology degree like me you get to choose from a wide range of exotic destinations to do your fieldwork such as Spain and Cyprus. But alas, money constraints meant that for us a trip to Ireland was in order. We looked around for a budget airline that would fly us to Dublin and we decided to ...
...when you book your flight. RyanAir operates an open seating policy on its planes, so seating is on a first come, first served basis. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BAGGAGE ALLOWANCES ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Carry on baggage is limited to one item per person weighing 10kg, while the checked baggage allowance is 15kg per person. I must admit that this wasn't enough for me as I was carrying luggage for a five week stay, and I had some heavy specialist equipment ...

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