Ryanair Cancellations
Discussion
Robertj21a said:
Broccers said:
I know, it was a Ryanair plane that caused it.
Correct, a Ryanair flying from Stansted. The point I was making was that the closure of EMA caused problems for other airlines too, not just Ryanair itself.
Caused us massive headache with no compensation other than 5 euros for food at the airport.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed. We have 3 nights in Riga next month and haven't heard anything but if they are cancelling with 24 hours notice we'll be borked to try and arrange an alternative. it's the only time frame we can get our youngest looked after so any changes would be a nightmare for us. What a shambles.
Shay HTFC said:
REALIST123 said:
As they say, you can fool some of the people all of the time........
Robertj21a said:
Broccers said:
I know, it was a Ryanair plane that caused it.
Correct, a Ryanair flying from Stansted. The point I was making was that the closure of EMA caused problems for other airlines too, not just Ryanair itself.extraT said:
In the very near future, I will have to fly from Salzburg to London. Not going to book UnreliableAir, purely because of this. Rather pay x more and travel with BA, or travel three hours to munch and fly in from there.
How very odd when there's 98% running perfectly ok - but then everyone has their own personal choice. Just don't expect too much from BA nowadays !Robertj21a said:
extraT said:
In the very near future, I will have to fly from Salzburg to London. Not going to book UnreliableAir, purely because of this. Rather pay x more and travel with BA, or travel three hours to munch and fly in from there.
How very odd when there's 98% running perfectly ok - but then everyone has their own personal choice. Just don't expect too much from BA nowadays !Robertj21a said:
JB! said:
Just booked my holiday 1st week of October. Purposefully paid extra to avoid Ryanair, £24 extra each to fly Monarch...
There are plenty of budget carriers that aren't as big a clusterf
k.
Have Monarch now resolved all their financial difficulties..........There are plenty of budget carriers that aren't as big a clusterf
k.
whoami said:
So said:
The cancellations so far don't affect anywhere I want to fly from or to. To be fair to Ryanair (if that's allowed) they've put their hands up to the cockup. I've just bought some more shares on the price dip.
They had little choice.So said:
whoami said:
So said:
The cancellations so far don't affect anywhere I want to fly from or to. To be fair to Ryanair (if that's allowed) they've put their hands up to the cockup. I've just bought some more shares on the price dip.
They had little choice.whoami said:
So said:
The cancellations so far don't affect anywhere I want to fly from or to. To be fair to Ryanair (if that's allowed) they've put their hands up to the cockup. I've just bought some more shares on the price dip.
They had little choice.Ive defended budget airlines a fair bit, like said they have opened up europe in a way unimaginable to previous generations, but this is pathetic - crap service and petty charges are one thing and to a degree so are planes going tech or last minute staff issues, but cancelling flights at short notice as a planned policy is pretty off.
REALIST123 said:
Jaguar steve said:
Shay HTFC said:
REALIST123 said:
As they say, you can fool some of the people all of the time........
It's exactly 50 years since I first flew abroad for a fortnight on the Costa Blanca and I can still remember what a huge big deal and sense of occasion the experience was. Back in the day it would have been absolutely unthinkable to take several foreign holidays a year and jump on a plane just like you'd jump on a bus and have a long weekend somewhere you'd never heard of just for the hell of it or fly from one side of Europe to the other for less than a day's income or even the price of a tank of petrol. Only the super wealthy used to be able to do that but everybody can now.
The cheap carriers like Ryanair and EasyJet have blown Europe wide open and have enabled and expanded tourism everywhere and all this whinging about a tiny percentage of overall flight disruption for a few weeks whilst ignoring the overall big picture is all very Daily Mail IMO.
End of the day ya gets what ya pays for. And what you get from Ryanair is unquestionably a absolute bargain.
The facts don't fit what you're saying. Many of Ryanair's peak period fares are no less than other carriers. And the service is still poor.
For years, it was no more expensive to fly BA or others to Europe than Ryanair or EasyJet once all the extras were taken into account. I used to do it every year on skiing holidays. The last several years I've driven which is less expensive than any airline and more convenient.
Do you book third rate hotels as well?
Anyway, the truth about this latest farrago is coming out. Seems Ryanair don't care about their staff any more than they do their customers.
Who gives a s
t how they treat their staff or customers? I don't. I'm not precious enough to even give it a second thought. What I do is play the game precisely by their rules, travel light and with flexibly, just accept whatever occurs without having a tantrum and with that mindset use Ryanair and Easyjet for cheap flights and European breaks without coming over all sanctimonious about offhand or rude staff or if the coffee is foul (it nearly always is) or the flight is 10 mins late or I have to walk out to the plane in the pouring rain.
Works for me every time otherwise I obviously wouldn't do it several times every year.
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