Ryanair - RYR

...in-bound jet. During this time ryanair staff were nowhere to be seen and could neither be located. 70 minutes later we were told that due to 'technical problems' our flight had now been cancelled and that we would be re-booked onto the next flight.(wonderful!) Again the ryanair staff dissapeared to the sound of disgruntled passengers. However somewhat 4 hours later we could actually board a plane bound for Dublin but due to the amount of passengers ...
...of 100+ people now scrabbling for seats together on the plane and not wanting to be parted from their companions...it was like goldrush season had just started!! =======THE FLIGHT======= The aircraft was a Boeing 737-800 boarded from the tarmac in the wind and rain and configured in a 3-2 seating plan so it was a little bit cramped to say the least, alas we were in the air and was quite shocked at the highly inflated prices for soft drinks or snacks ...

phil2001 20.03.2002 (21.03.2002) · Read full review
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I flew with Ryanair from Manchester to Spain, and then back to Liverpool. It was all booked over the internet through otb.com. The flights were cheap enough, but then they add extra carges, like paying for if you want to take a case to check in. This was a bit miss-leading, it said you could pay to check in a bag of 15 kg, and you could also pay to check in extra bags, we didn't do this, but we later found out that no matter how many bags were checked ...
...person, and anything over that would be charged at £15 per kg. We received all our flight info byu email and then left it at that after confirming that they were correct. It was only as the holiday approached and we had received no tickets that we decided to re-read the email. In the small print at the bottom it said that you needed to check-in online and print off your own boarding pass, otherwise they would charge you £40 at the airport - good ...

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I just travelled with Ryanair with some friends to Salzburg and can find nothing to complain about. Our flight cost some £47 including airport tax (which made up most of it) which has to be great vaule for money! The flight itself was smooth and without major problems. You have to pay extra for food and refreshments, but given the price and the length of the flight (only 2hr) that's not too much of a hardship. Our flight was delayed, but that was ...
...be found. At its best Ryanair is far cheaper than the other budget airlines like Go, Easyjet etc. The best times to look seem to be at weekends, especially Sundays as they do a lot of Internet only offers in the Sunday Times. Pity they only do Europe! And if anyone has any idea how they make any money please let me know - I'm most curious. Enjoy your holidays. ...

outonalimb 15.06.2001 · Read full review
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I have flown with Ryanair on several occasions-I don't really know what how routes differ, but maybe they do due to staff or whatever. The routes I have flown are as follows: London Gatwick to Dublin, Dublin to Gatwick, London Stansted to Bydgoszcz (Poland), Stansted to Krakow, Gdansk to Frankfurt Hahn, Karlsruhe Baden-Baden to Stansted, Venice Treviso to Stansted, and an aborted attempt to fly to Riga (Latvia). All in all I have been very happy ...
...itself was shut down, so Ryanair were hardly to blame. The way they dealt with the problem, whilst not ideal, was certainly better than it could have been. We had actually taxied to the end of the runway before the cancellation, so we had to return to the terminal, collect our baggage, and then queue to try to get tickets for a later flight, but this turned out to not be possible, and we were given a sheet of paper with instructions on how to get ...

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...continent these days, and while Ryanair like to think of themselves as trailblazers, they haven't really managed to stay ahead of the game. They may be cheap, but one has to draw the line somewhere... Ryanair attempts to offer an alternative to Easyjet by flying to to less auspicious airports in an attempt to keep the costs down, hoping that the customer will appreciate their ethos and fly with them. Where this falls down is that airlines like Easyjet ...
...no significantly greater cost than Ryanair and the cost of transport to outlying airports combined with the extra hassle involved makes flying Ryanair a less attractive prospect, especially when the difference between ticket prices is as small as £10-£15. They also struggle to match Easyjet in terms of cleanliness and quality of staff. Easyjet staff seem to thrive on team spirit and are friendly, jocular and not uniformly orange painted 30-something ...

Deiz 11.01.2001 (12.01.2001) · Read full review
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I have flown with Ryanair about once a month since early 2000, and my last flight was yesterday: I do not love it, but it still comes in useful. Ryanair is basically a flying bus service: great if you need to get from A to B cheaply, are prepared to accept inconvenience and do not carry much luggage (or anything you care about). Booking: Booking is on the internet, payment by debit or credit card (beware: the latter incurs a higher handling fee). ...
...airport to your accomodation, as Ryanair flights often arrive at fairly unsociable hours. A particular warning if you plan to go to Brussels: Charleroi is a very long way from Brussels, and when I went there two years ago Ryanair had organised the transfer from Brussels to Charleroi with 1 standard coach for all the people who were boarding the plane (a lot more seats than the bus). End result: a nightmare motorway journey on a coach that was crammed ...

helenamuti 16.02.2005 · Read full review
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...years I have travelled with Ryanair hundreds of times, so I think I am allowed to express my true opinions on here! My most frequented airports are Dublin and Shannon to Stansted, and Dublin to Luton, East Midlands and Birmingham. I won't get into routes, because I have read the other reviews and some of them do, but you are best to visit www.ryanair.com if you need more information. In all the times I have been with Ryanair, one thing I must ...
...Due to the fact that Ryanair don't employ cleaners, the seats and floor are often grotty, with the last persons lunch remains lying discarded. The planes have a turnaround of about 20-25 minutes, and in my opinion, could splash out on someone to pick up the rubbish. They also pride themselves on being able to announce that the flight is 'X amounts of time' early, when really, they allow much more time for the flight time than is necessary. For example, ...

Evil_Irish_Twin 07.10.2004 · Read full review
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...from Rome after flying with Ryanair for the first time and I have to say I wasn't disppointed. As it was a no frills airline I didn't have high expectations, I have travelled with easyjet before so knew what to expect. The flights were very simple to book. I logged on to Ryanair.com and used the FInd Lowest Fares link as I didn't have set dates. I managed to get my flights for 1p each way which I thought was an absolute bargain. With taxes included ...
...think it is great that Ryanair have a no ticket policy, just print off the confirmation and off you go. A credit card fee of £2.50/£3.50 was included which I though was a bit expensive considering the total cost. I arrived at Glasgow Preswick about 15 minutes after the check in opened and there was only a few people in the queue, quick and easy. We were given our boarding passes and off we went. An announcement was made in the departure lounge for ...

moneybags_82 19.11.2005 · Read full review
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...youll end up learning the Ryanair catalogue off by heart or getting cramp in your neck from holding your head at a 90 degree angle so that you can watch everything moving extremely slowly past you outside and below out of the window. All things aside, on a students budget, I think its great cos at least its not a freight plane and you have to sit on mail bags all the way there! I mean, have you looked at the website? I got my flight to South Italy ...

judithritchie 21.12.2000 · Read full review
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My first time flying with ryan air, was spring this year. Unfortunately not a happy time, my grandmother who lived in Waterford, had died, and the family went out to her funeral. My parents booked online, and you print off the tickets and flight details etc. We couldn't believe it was £5 per person! The taxes were £11-£15, but still, it was so cheap. The plane was excellent, slightly bigger it felt than average, well I seemed to have more leg ...
...flight meals or movies. The cabin staff were pleasant, helpful just like most really. One of the bad things is the cost of food and drinks on board. This we know is to offset the cheap flights, a small can ok coke was £1.50, a sandwich was around £5! But hey it was a short flight and you are not forced to buy them are you. The other thing I have to say that spoiled it was the wheelchair charge. My uncle has cancer and is in a wheelchair, he ...

alleykatz 09.07.2001 · Read full review
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...waiting for take off. As RyanAir suffer from delays and cancellations very often, why can they not think to have some newspapers with them to hand to angry passengers when their plane is delayed? This would hardly cost anything at all, but even a simple gesture like this would cheer a lot of people up and keep us happy for that extra bit longer. When I arrived two hours late at Stanstead hoping to whiz through, collect my baggage and make the last ...
...apology for this at all simply stating that there was a delay with our baggage . Every other airline had their baggage for their customers there and they all took off leaving all of us from the Ryain Air flight waiting so I know it was not a general problem with baggage handlers, as a man working at the airport informed me. Even if it was, Ryan air should have kept us informed off what was going on and apologise for this delays it was them we were ...

jessih 15.06.2003 (16.06.2003) · Read full review
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I travelled to Dublin with Ryanair in May 2002, the outbound flight had a 1 hour delay, which was unfortunate since my trip was just for the day and this was valuable sightseeing time lost. I booked using Ryanair.com which is very user friendly website. You have to type in a number of fields including departure airport, number of passengers, date of departure and return date. Upon submitting this information, the website will provide details of flights ...
...save credit card charges which Ryanair will apply. Ryanair can then send you an email booking confirmation which you can printout and take to the airport to show at the departure desk in order to speed up the process of issuing the boarding cards. Ryanair did not send me flight tickets through the post so it was also necessary to take passports not just for the flight but also as photo identification in order to obtain flight tickets at the departure ...

trickster 05.06.2002 (13.06.2002) · Read full review
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I have used Ryanair several times to fly between the UK and Ireland. The flights have always left on time (despite low-cost carriers having quite a low priority as far as airports are concerned) and have got me to my destination in one piece. Sure, the planes feel sometimes like they're going to fall apart and there's no free booze or food as you'd expect on other, non-low-cost airlines. Once someone in the seat behind me noticed a can of Heineken ...

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What Are They All About Ryan Air was the original cheap flight airline. Started by the Ryan family in 1985 with 1 15 seater plane travelling from Waterford, Ireland to Gatwick UK.Since then and despite some bad press reguarding safety issue Ryan Air seems to have gone from strength to strength, it is still Europe's lowest fare airline now has 26 routes and it's estimated that this year they will carry 67 million passengers. They have also purchased ...
...more safety issues for the time being) and employ around 6000 staff from different countries. What I Had Heard I had heard very mixed reviews about Ryan Air ranging from crap to excellent. I'd also heard about the documentary (Dispatches) which bought their safety issues to light and also showed the big boss up to be a bit of prick. My Experience After looking on the internet for bargain deals it soon became very clear to me that Ryan Air was the ...

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Possibly the most hated airline I know of. Fair enough they’re very cheap, but beware they are also extremely nasty! So what’s their problem then? I have a friend who works for Ryanair, and he has explained to me that they couldn’t care less about providing good customer service. So you can complain to them until you are blue in the face, but it probably won’t get you anywhere. Basically their attitude is that they are the ...
...reason. They don’t even care if you decide never to use them again, because they know that their cheapness will fill the planes, why should they waste money on customer service. OK so they are ridiculously cheap, but I couldn’t believe the rudeness of their handling agents at Stansted Airport. They were impolite, abrupt and treated the entire planeload of passengers like a herd of cattle. As if all this wasn’t bad enough, delayed ...

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