Ryanair - RYR

Advantages: Very Cheap Flights. "Interesting" Destinations. Looked After Me!
Disadvantages: "Interesting Destinations". Cut Price Service at Stanstead.

...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 ... Read review

Advantages: CHEAP (1p), Punctual, Network of Routes
Disadvantages: Can be Unclean, "Point-to-Point"

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 ... Read review

Advantages: Cheap, punctual, many european desintations
Disadvantages: Crew attitude

...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 ... Read review

Advantages: Cheap as chips
Disadvantages: You know it's cheap!

...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 ... Read review

Advantages: cheap, cheap, cheap.... can get you to places weird and wonderfull at a fraction of a normal price
Disadvantages: airports choice (especially for big cities); in-flight food and drink; not very helpful when things go wrong (or so it is said)

...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 ... Read review