Three Ryanair Passengers Win Cars.....

Three Ryanair Passengers Win Cars.....

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lost in espace

6,205 posts

209 months

Thursday 28th April 2011
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Having flown ryanair last week the tickets profits go to charity, so its the charity which will be effectively forking out. These scratchcards were being sold 2 for 1 on my flight.

My Ryanair flight was cheap, on time, comfortable and clean. The only problem was the passenger screaming out loud to a hostess chap that his chicken sandwich was below par, and got offered an alternative.

Liokault

2,837 posts

216 months

Thursday 28th April 2011
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lost in espace said:
Having flown ryanair last week the tickets profits go to charity, so its the charity which will be effectively forking out. These scratchcards were being sold 2 for 1 on my flight.
Ryan air will be taking a cut somewhere.

lost in espace said:
My Ryanair flight was cheap, on time, comfortable and clean. The only problem was the passenger screaming out loud to a hostess chap that his chicken sandwich was below par, and got offered an alternative.
Ryanair is ok'ish if things are going ok.

What I didn't like was:

Having to checkin online without the benefit of picking a seat and still having to join a 45 min line up to check bags in on arrival at the airport.
Seats that I can’t fit into with out touching the arm of the guys to either side or my knees to the seat in front, despite being only 5’9”.
Having a carryon bag size cage that doesn’t match the shape of any commercially available product, other than the luggage sold by Ryanair(I understand there was a group trying to take Ryanair to court over this).

The total lack of any idea of "crowd control". In a system the encourages everyone to line up as soon as they get to the gate, its comical to watch 100+ (or whatever) people who have stood in line for an hour have a gate changed on them at the last second.

The total lack of communication. When I have been stuck in Germany with a delayed flight for over 5 hours and the over head boards are still telling me that the flight is on time, even though that time was 4.5 hours ago, and on one from Ryanair is in the building to give any info.
Added to which Ryanairs answer to legally (I understand) having to provide refreshments after a certain amount of delay, was to issue a e5 voucher to be used for food and drink, which can be redeemed by going back out through security to the ryanair desk, 5 minutes before the flight takes off!


But most of all, by far the worst aspect of flying Ryanair was that bloody "Chillax with a refreshing J20" advert that they have to play!

Liokault

2,837 posts

216 months

Thursday 28th April 2011
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rich1231 said:
Liokault said:
And yet, here I am in Germany having flown Lufthansa for £350 odd and having done so for the last 4 months most weeks, where as for the previous 4 months I was flying Ryan air for £70-200 (depending on if I booked at the last second or not).

As an added bonus, I can now get a bus to the airport as I fly from Heathrow, which is less than 50 miles away rather than driving to Stansted (100 miles) and leaving my car there all week.
I dont think you got it.
I really don't! Is there a joke or sub-text that im missing?

GestapoWatch

1,385 posts

192 months

Thursday 28th April 2011
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More genius marketing from Mr O'Leary? Now everyone who reads the story will have to buy a scratchcard on their flight 'just in case' and no doubt the cars aren't costing Ryanair a penny anyway.

He's no mug hehe