Ryanair - RYR

...week away. Tough - Ryanair only let you have 15kg (unlike every other airline). They decide to cancel your flight and put everyone on the next flight so there's one full flight rather than 2 half-full flights - what else do you expect for the fare you pay. Not only that but the destinations are nowhere near the main city. Charleroi, for instance, is WAY out of Brussels. So is Stansted, for that matter. And how clear is it on the website? Not very. ...
...the fare was cheap. Yes, I got there [roughly] on time. Was it worth it? No. It cost me more in time travelling to their out-of-the-way airports, in food on the plane and in the airport, and in train/bus/taxi costs. By the time MY time was factored it, I'd do better flying direct to Brussels with BMI, or to London City with FlyBe or Scot Airways. ...

licon 27.10.2002 · Read full review
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***INTRODUCTION*** RyanAir is Europe's largest budget airline. Visit www.ryanair.com to see what they have to offer. You will find flights which will cost you pennies! Taxes must be added on to these ticket prices, but you will still end up with incredibly cheap tickets. I have used Ryanair once (in February 2006). ***DESTINATIONS*** Ryanair deal with short flights to places such as Berlin, Rome, Riga and Venice. The planes are suited to short ...
...tickets are so cheap. Ryanair does however hand-out menu's to the passengers. You can order food and drink from this, but it is not cheap. It is a good idea to purchase some food and snacks to take on the plane with you. Obviously there is no entertainment on Ryanair i.e. no television or radio. So I advise you to take a book or newspaper with you. ***STAFF*** I had no negative experience in regards to the Ryanair staff in the airports or on the ...

HannahBoo 21.02.2006 · Read full review
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I haven't actually flown with Ryanair yet so can't comment on the experience. A few of my friends have and they recommend it - especially for the price. And this is the point! We compromise our expectations for a cheap deal. So how do we get the best deal from Ryanair? My tip is to use their web site and be prepared to juggle your flying dates. There's a huge variation in prices depending on when you choose to fly. Weekends tend to be more expensive, ...
...strange pricing going on too. For example, a friend of mine recently wanted a one way ticket to Spain and had to fly on a certain day, but, by saying that he wanted to return on the following Wednesday he saved about £40 - yep, a return ticket for less than the price of a single. You can sometimes also lower price of an outbound journey by changing the day of the return journey. Don't ask me how this works but it does so if you want the cheapest ...

jxhn 02.08.2000 · Read full review
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Now I've only flown with Ryanair the once, but really I've no complaints. Even the bit about getting on the bus! I flew with them from Teesside International Airport to Dublin in March of this year. The seats were booked online by a friend, and even though we only booked up about a week before it was only about £90 each return. The prices vary depending on how full the plane is, so they tend to start very cheap, rise and then in the last couple ...
...was very good. With Ryanair you can take up to 15kg of hand luggage as well as the allowance for the hold (I believe that is 20kg as it is for most flights), this means for short breaks you can avoid the usual wait for badgs at the other end by taking a small trolley case for example as your hand luggage. On board the plane, the boarding was well organised and although there is no pre-booked seating 6 of us got sat together no problem. Basically ...

Dawnie2810 28.10.2003 · Read full review
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...moving through to board. We were disgusted with this and think ryanair do this purley to make money . To finish it all off while we were sitting awainting the next pland the rude emplyee walked by us smirking while going for his ciggie break .will never use them again ...

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I have flown with Ryan air from Glasgow Prestwick to Paris Beavaois a couple of times and it is excellent value with the very handy flight times. Both times the price has worked out at under £60 return (inc tax) and the flight leaves early sat a.m. and returns sunday evening. The Ryan air website also has a very useful hotel booking section with (surprise, surprise) a cheap & nice selection. When the route opened Ryan air got had some bad press ...
...miles outside - this is no problem as it takes about 1 hr on a coach to the centre of Paris. This is £5 each way. Beauvais is an excellent airport (really!), as it has a terminal the size of a small shed & seems to get only 1 flight a day. This means you are off the plane, bags picked up & on the coach in about 5 mins having walked about 100m max. No queues, no fuss, no long walks etc. Very relaxing. ...

pedro_delb 02.02.2001 · Read full review
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...to get there was with Ryanair and a small hire car at the other end. It's the second time I have flown Ryanair, having also used Go and EasyJet extensively. Any accusations of cutting corners are rubbish. I chatted to their duty manager for some time and she explained a few things, such as certain extra procedures and safety precautions they have to follow as their aircraft are registered in Ireland. This is why you can't use a laptop or PDA at ...
...it, they wouldn't be able to provide European air travel at such amazing prices. They strike me as going about their business quietly but efficiently without a boisterous clown like Stelios or delusional Barbara Cassani at the helm. I have no qualms about using Ryanair and recommend them. ...

buono 22.03.2001 · Read full review
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Since the price increase and quality decrease in Easy Jet flights I have looked elsewhere for European travel and discovered Ryan Air. Ryan Air offers have astounded many people this summer with tickets from £1 you have to question the sanity of those in the driving seat, but who am I to complain having taken advantage of the insanity to the fullest. I am now on the mailing list and would suggest that everybody joins - in the past month I have ...
...I travelled home at weekends whilst working in Italy this summer, something I would never have imagined doing without these offers. I currently have flights booked to Dublin, Brussels and Genoa for weekends to visit friends, family or just a bit of old fashioned tourism. Most people shy away from giving their e-mail to big companies, worried they will receive so much spam as to crash any system, but don't! Live a little and you shall not regret ...

Trinitytrash 23.08.2001 · Read full review
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...with me to Italy via Ryanair recently, and having never succumbed to its horrors asked me apprehensively: 'What's it like?' My reply? 'You know how they transport cattle...?.' And honestly, that is how I see it. To me, their theory is - you pay low prices, you get low levels of customer service. Often I've had rude, unhelpful orange-coloured women begrudgingly answer my questions; once without any warning one of them snatched my bag from me and ...
...out. No apology, no explanation, nothing. You'll often find yourself waiting in a hot terminal for long periods as you are jostled from all sides by other travellers desperate to push their way to the front of the queue. There is a system, generally, whereby seat numbers 0-90 are seated first, but on a recent jaunt to Dublin? Some rude women with seats not in that bracket pushed their way to the front, feigned ignorance and were still seated ahead ...

blackdahlia 04.07.2006 · Read full review
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Ryanair is cheap, ok advantage out of the way. But Ryanair, does not know how to treat customers in my experience they are rude, unhelpful, arrogant and disinterested in customer satisfaction. News to ryanair, price does not always win. I have experienced delays with lots of airlines and OK, not many are that helpful, but Ryanair are posutively blaze, you are delayed, we do not care, we could fly you out in three days time, go home in the meantime. ...
...I have been delayed with Ryanair, more times than any other airline. In fact the only airline that is worse in Bangledesh Air! Finally, Ryanair does not have a customer service line that you can speak to, nor does it reply to correspondence asking after their poor service. ...

KingHerrod 31.08.2000 · Read full review
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I have taken this airline once to Frankfurt departing from Standsted extremely early in the morning to Frankfurt Hahn, a tiny airport 100 miles away from Frankfurt!!!! Beware of the airports that you are flying into though the tickets is really cheap.Flight can go as cheap as 1 pounds only.....1 pounds only but you have to book your flights early because the price will go up when the 1 pound tickets has been snapped up. Just check carefully. It's ...

pehchiong 11.07.2000 · Read full review
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Ryanair has become a major rival for BA in recent years as a low-cost airline, which offers substantial cuts in price with a no-frills service. Based in Ireland (Website: www.ryainair.ie) , the company adopts a good attitude to customers - they are aware of how poor the national rail network is and take advantage of this, and quite correctly so. Currently, fares from Glasgow Prestwick to London Stansted are quoted at the astonishingly low price ...
...the customer still wins. If Ryanair advertised their return flights to London at £21.70 all inclusive, they would still have to beat the customers off with sticks. Also, check on the website, there may be further reductions when booking online. I only have knowledge of the Glasgow-London service. There is a bus service which operates from the centre of Glasgow to Prestwick (around 20 miles away) which is unbelievably cheap and is further reduced ...

Saltire 22.01.2001 · Read full review
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...haven't actually been on a Ryanair flight yet but do intend to in October or November this year cos they offer such cheap seats. A good friend of mine, the person I am going with has been with them to Turin for £9.00 return excl taxes and he said it was fine. We were looking for flights for Sept this year about a month ago now and we could go to Brussels for £20.00 each or Venice for £30.00 rtn incl taxes. When you look how cheap these prices are ...
...not such a variety with Ryanair so it depends where you wanna go and when cos that is another thing you have to be flexible with dates to get the cheap seats but that appears to be the same with all of them. So check out their website www.ryanair.com and if they fly to where you want to go it is worth trying cos you can't complain at these prices, however I wouldn't expect the food to be brilliant, or it maybe better than you think. Just a helpful ...

coolchanty 26.08.2001 (08.11.2001) · Read full review
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...basic airport and surprise surprise Ryanair did not give any food vouchers or anything, plus the only cash machine at the airport was broken. Eventually at 2345 we boarded. Believe it or not we then had another delay of 20 minutes when they had 'lost' a passenger. At that point I was too tired to care. Then then had the audacity to try and sell us duty free products and beverages. We landed and there was yet another delay, there was no landing ...
...Well today I called Ryanair to ask how I apply for a refund and the woman on the end of the phone said that they don't do refunds but if you had taken the Ryanair insurance you would be eligible for a refund.... I told her that I will never fly Ryanair again. Easyjet give a refund if you are delayed for over 4 hours, which I was. She was very rude on the phone and didn't even apologize for the delay. I didn't get home the next morning until 0330, ...

MadeinScotland 06.11.2001 · Read full review
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... no, I didn't believe it either. But I'm off to Scotland in January for a grand total of £1, return fare, not including taxes. And although this is a special offer, their standard fares are hardly expensive. My parents flew to Nice for £80 for both of them, earlier this year, and reported that everything went smoothly, the plane left and arrived on time and tho' they didn't have much legroom, the flight was so short it didn't matter. Booking over ...
...to watch out for is that they're a ticketless airline, so you'd better keep that bit of paper cos you'll need the code on it when you get to the airport. I find this a bit unnerving, but it seems to work well. ****UPDATE**** 18/01/01 Have just returned from said weekend in Scotland, and have to say that I am most impressed with Ryanair. Our flight from London left on time, we checked in with absolutely no problems at all despite my fears over the ...

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