Ryanair? Please shoot me!
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I may have said it before to family and friends but this time I'll say it publicly:
If you ever...ever...see me even trying to book a flight with Ryanair ever again...you have my permission to quietly take me aside and shoot me!
Liverpool to Granada a week ago was bad enough...a good match for as bad as they've ever been.
Granada to Liverpool last night leaves me completely and utterly speechless!
Complain?...I wouldn't really know where to begin...and they really wouldn't care would they?
If you ever...ever...see me even trying to book a flight with Ryanair ever again...you have my permission to quietly take me aside and shoot me!
Liverpool to Granada a week ago was bad enough...a good match for as bad as they've ever been.
Granada to Liverpool last night leaves me completely and utterly speechless!
Complain?...I wouldn't really know where to begin...and they really wouldn't care would they?
I've been using them to get me from Edinburgh to Dublin and back every week for the last two years. Much as I love to have a dig at them as much as the next man, in all honesty I have had no problems. The occassional delay (but you are going to get that with any airline) and only one cancellation (because Dublin Airport is as organised as the Irish stereotype would suggest) but other than that they are usually on time.
Help! I've just defended RyanAir!
Help! I've just defended RyanAir!
Dare2Fail said:
I've been using them to get me from Edinburgh to Dublin and back every week for the last two years. Much as I love to have a dig at them as much as the next man, in all honesty I have had no problems. The occassional delay (but you are going to get that with any airline) and only one cancellation (because Dublin Airport is as organised as the Irish stereotype would suggest) but other than that they are usually on time.
Help! I've just defended RyanAir!
You must be conditioned by the Dublin Airport 'experience' Help! I've just defended RyanAir!
When it comes to leaving DUB any airline is a good airline.
Dare2Fail said:
I've been using them to get me from Edinburgh to Dublin and back every week for the last two years. Much as I love to have a dig at them as much as the next man, in all honesty I have had no problems. The occassional delay (but you are going to get that with any airline) and only one cancellation (because Dublin Airport is as organised as the Irish stereotype would suggest) but other than that they are usually on time.
Help! I've just defended RyanAir!
I spent 6 months going from the North East to Dublin with Ryanair every Monday and Friday. Thats about as much as I could take. The service itself wasn't as bad as you'd think, so long as you took it for what it was - cheap transport. A bus service almost.Help! I've just defended RyanAir!
The thing that got me was the literal stampede to the gate when it was opened. That and getting off the f
king plane at the other end. I'm sure in an emergency people wouldn't make as much of a rush to be the first off.
JuniorD said:
Dare2Fail said:
I've been using them to get me from Edinburgh to Dublin and back every week for the last two years. Much as I love to have a dig at them as much as the next man, in all honesty I have had no problems. The occassional delay (but you are going to get that with any airline) and only one cancellation (because Dublin Airport is as organised as the Irish stereotype would suggest) but other than that they are usually on time.
Help! I've just defended RyanAir!
You must be conditioned by the Dublin Airport 'experience' Help! I've just defended RyanAir!
When it comes to leaving DUB any airline is a good airline.
ds" may have been uttered many times that morning.TheEnd said:
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A mild rant, fit for children under the age of 3. Contained no details or swearing. Overall, i'd be happy to rant this at a tea party or formal occasion.
LOL! Sorry...fair enough but even 'thinking' about lastnight is making my head spin!A mild rant, fit for children under the age of 3. Contained no details or swearing. Overall, i'd be happy to rant this at a tea party or formal occasion.
Ok...
So I...I mean 'we' (being wife and 3 truculant peri-teenage kids) arrive at Granada airport for our flight back to the U.K. We're only 2 hours early. By that I mean 2 hours BEFORE the 2 hours early that they tell you to arrive.
That's because said peri-teenage baggage decide that the Alhambra is basically some boring, old sh*t-hole that they can't be bothered with even though you've just spent £50 getting them in etc. So you leave early for the airport....far too early!
So in order to eat up the clock you look at the map and not a nice looking man-made lake indicated on the map with a little 'yacht' and 'jetski' symbol next to it. It's Sunday afternoon so you figure there might be the odd Spanish couple promenading the banks and the occasional 'yacht' out on the lake for you to observe gently sailing by with the back-drop on the snowy Sierra Nevada.
Hmmm...not quite!
Turns out it's a traditional magnet for the Spanish equivalent of some kind of combination of Spanish-Chav-Cum-Traveller-Cum-Dog-on-a-String (and yes...they have same f*cking nightmare breeds)to congregate in the idyllic surrounding woods, have a BBQ..and drink whisky!
We managed to spend an hour there which was 'fine'! Then we had to deal with Ryanair!
Sorry....I feeling ill again...
I drop off the brand new Citroen C4 Picasso we had on hire. Absolutely every gadget in the book on the car. You name ot it had it...flappy paddle gear-change etc etc...but ultimately total s
te!Sorry...need a drink....brb!
Er... previous post. How is ANY of the above Ryanair's fault?
I flew that route a few weeks ago to go skiing in Sierra Nevada - never flown Ryanair before and (apart from the on board colour scheme, the music and endless trying to sell st) it was pretty well flawless. I also much preferred Liverpool airport to the hellhole that Manchester has become.
Other thing I was a fan of - they've removed the behind the seat magazine stowage giving me a vital extra inch of legroom (I'm tall) and the best thing - I could hug them for it - you cannot recline the seat
If there is something that sends me mental is the ignorant in the seat in front who reclines their seat. Gaaaaargh! 
I flew that route a few weeks ago to go skiing in Sierra Nevada - never flown Ryanair before and (apart from the on board colour scheme, the music and endless trying to sell s
t) it was pretty well flawless. I also much preferred Liverpool airport to the hellhole that Manchester has become.Other thing I was a fan of - they've removed the behind the seat magazine stowage giving me a vital extra inch of legroom (I'm tall) and the best thing - I could hug them for it - you cannot recline the seat
If there is something that sends me mental is the ignorant in the seat in front who reclines their seat. Gaaaaargh! Edited by Orb the Impaler on Monday 23 February 20:33
derin100 said:
...Alhambra...
Ahh so SEAT named their people carrier after some sthole, makes sense.derin100 said:
...and drink whisky!...
I'm there!derin100 said:
...I drop off the brand new Citroen C4 Picasso we had on hire. Absolutely every gadget in the book on the car. You name ot it had it...flappy paddle gear-change etc etc...but ultimately total ste!
Fecking people carriers are ste!te, should've gone for a 5 Series BMW or a Mondeo even as they're much faster so I'm told 
So...by now I'm suitably softened up for Ryanair.
I don't know if others are familiar with Granada airport? It's beautiful! An oasis of tranquility set in beautiful surroundings with snow-capped mountains in the distance; only three departure gates...but then again only about half a dozen flights per day.The departure hall is tiny.
So why the f*ck do Ryaniar have to schedule their only two flipping flights to leave the same tiny space at exactly the sametime flipping time!?! Which happens to the same time as the only other flight leaving that evening with a different airline. 600-odd people mixed together in three 'queues' in a space only fit (or safe!) for a fraction of that! With their only two employees having to check-in two 737-800s full of people and then get them through the departure gates at the sametime.
Now...travelling with children can be frought at the best of times. But...because Ryanair don't allocate seats or appear to have any rergard or make any concession for people travelling with children (it's a free for all when it comes to embarkation) one ends up split up from one's children once on the plane. I thought that was even borderline 'illegal'. Clearly I was wrong.
I mean...for f*cksake...they even had one of their 'only two' out on the tarmac in the dark asking each individual again to confirm verbally: "Liverpool?"
You can just see it can't you? My c8nt of an eldest boy: "No...Arsenal!"
So then we're on the plane.
You've seen their interiors? Glad someone else think they're so 'nice' and soothing that they decided to photograph it! My camera had run out of battery:
http://www.planebuzz.com/RyanAir.jpg
What this doesn't of course convey is the noise.
The noise is unbearable! Every few bloody minutes that damn Tannoy! It's like Butlins! No...I don't want to buy one of your Eff-ing Scratch Cards to win one of your Eff-ing Minis...to "Help Children blah blah blah blah"...Even if I win it'll probably be Eff-ing Blue and Yellow!!!
Finally we land! It's something like 1am now.
Can't get off the plane just yet though. But Ryanair have the cheek to blame the delay on and I kid you not this is what the cheeky pilot (who sounded about 12 years old ) had to say: " Sorry for the delay ladies and gentleman..but seemingly H.M Immigration Control can't cope with more than one plane arriving at once!"
Actually, I thought the Liverpool immigration staff were coping admirably...given that it was again Eff-ing Ryanair that can't seem to figure out how to stagger their schedules and had two planes arriving at the sametime into a small airport.
Then there's that prick CEO of theirs we hear on the radio all the time...bleating about online travel-agents selling their tickets and making a profit out of them? F*ck-off!
Yeah..I know...you pays your money you takes your choice. Sod it...from now on I'm paying the money. I've had enough of them!
Or as E31Shrew said: "Drive!"
That's what I'm gonna to Nice in the Summer!
I don't know if others are familiar with Granada airport? It's beautiful! An oasis of tranquility set in beautiful surroundings with snow-capped mountains in the distance; only three departure gates...but then again only about half a dozen flights per day.The departure hall is tiny.
So why the f*ck do Ryaniar have to schedule their only two flipping flights to leave the same tiny space at exactly the sametime flipping time!?! Which happens to the same time as the only other flight leaving that evening with a different airline. 600-odd people mixed together in three 'queues' in a space only fit (or safe!) for a fraction of that! With their only two employees having to check-in two 737-800s full of people and then get them through the departure gates at the sametime.
Now...travelling with children can be frought at the best of times. But...because Ryanair don't allocate seats or appear to have any rergard or make any concession for people travelling with children (it's a free for all when it comes to embarkation) one ends up split up from one's children once on the plane. I thought that was even borderline 'illegal'. Clearly I was wrong.
I mean...for f*cksake...they even had one of their 'only two' out on the tarmac in the dark asking each individual again to confirm verbally: "Liverpool?"
You can just see it can't you? My c8nt of an eldest boy: "No...Arsenal!"
So then we're on the plane.
You've seen their interiors? Glad someone else think they're so 'nice' and soothing that they decided to photograph it! My camera had run out of battery:
http://www.planebuzz.com/RyanAir.jpg
What this doesn't of course convey is the noise.
The noise is unbearable! Every few bloody minutes that damn Tannoy! It's like Butlins! No...I don't want to buy one of your Eff-ing Scratch Cards to win one of your Eff-ing Minis...to "Help Children blah blah blah blah"...Even if I win it'll probably be Eff-ing Blue and Yellow!!!
Finally we land! It's something like 1am now.
Can't get off the plane just yet though. But Ryanair have the cheek to blame the delay on and I kid you not this is what the cheeky pilot (who sounded about 12 years old ) had to say: " Sorry for the delay ladies and gentleman..but seemingly H.M Immigration Control can't cope with more than one plane arriving at once!"
Actually, I thought the Liverpool immigration staff were coping admirably...given that it was again Eff-ing Ryanair that can't seem to figure out how to stagger their schedules and had two planes arriving at the sametime into a small airport.
Then there's that prick CEO of theirs we hear on the radio all the time...bleating about online travel-agents selling their tickets and making a profit out of them? F*ck-off!
Yeah..I know...you pays your money you takes your choice. Sod it...from now on I'm paying the money. I've had enough of them!
Or as E31Shrew said: "Drive!"
That's what I'm gonna to Nice in the Summer!
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