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What happens if flights are delayed with passengers on board ? Will the coin slots be able to handle the coinage ?
I only do short flights between uk and Ireland with Ryanair but should I as a male need to spend a penny pound , the plastic refreshment bottle ( from my overcharged RA lunch pack ) should be big enough to hold contents of my bladder
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An English friend of mine recently was taking a Ryaniar flight from Birmingham to Faro. She was boarding the plane, when one of the staff asked her to check her handluggage for size, after failing to squash her baggage into their measuring thingy, she was asked could she take anything out. When she said how would she get back whatever she took out - the guy just shrugged his shoulders - when she complained that this was awful service - the guy said right you're not getting on the plane :eek:.
When she got back to the Ryanair desk - the guy there said I don't want to hear about your complaint. This is just a week after her husband's flight from Birmingham was cancelled in the last minute coz of the weather - seemingly all the other flights were going ok though
. He had to make his own way to Stansted, they wouldn't pay for hotels or for transport costs. Needless to say they are livid and are not going to fly with Ryanair again.
On the toilet thing, my wife actually said to me a couple of months ago - half in jest and half serious that next thing you'll know is that Ryanair will start charging you for using the toilet. Looks like she might have been more right than I thought.
Anyway I think whether this toilet charging story is a pisstake or not - it's time that the EU starts regulating the airline industry a whole lot more as it's getting out of hand. Passengers are treated really badly these days and it semes to be getting worse and worse - it's time to reverse this trend imo. These days it's easier to get around to seeing different parts of Europe but unfortunately some sh1t airlines like Ryanair have got routes that passengers like, so if you take the route of starting to avoid certain airlines - then you can be severely limited. For Irish passengers in particular were you to start boycotting (something I wouldn't blame anyone for doing) Ryanair it would really curtail where you could go to easily.
Personally I'd prefer to pay a little bit more if it ensured some basic comfort and a reasonable service. Imo Seat length and width should be big enough to ensure that most people are not going to feel squashed. I mean I'm 5'10" and I feel squashed on a lot of these budget flights - god help those over 6 foot.
Ryanair is one of the most successful Irish businesses and normally that would make me proud of it but instead it makes me cringe :mad:0 -
The bag would not fit into the baggage size checker? The baggage size checker was there to make sure the baggage would fit in the overhead compartment. It obviously was too big. What were the staff supposed to do? Allow her to waste time on the plane trying to fit a bag that was too big into the overhead compartments and end up putting it in with the checked in luggage?luckylucky wrote: »An English friend of mine recently was taking a Ryaniar flight from Birmingham to Faro. She was boarding the plane, when one of the staff asked her to check her handluggage for size, after failing to squash her baggage into their measuring thingy, she was asked could she take anything out. When she said how would she get back whatever she took out - the guy just shrugged his shoulders - when she complained that this was awful service - the guy said right you're not getting on the plane :eek:.
There was no valid complaint to be made. It was completely her fault.luckylucky wrote: »When she got back to the Ryanair desk - the guy there said I don't want to hear about your complaint.
Her husbands flight problems are completely irrelevant to the fact that she tried to bring a bag onto the plane that was too big. That was her fault and her fault only. If Ryanair made an exception for her then it would not be fair on others.luckylucky wrote: »This is just a week after her husband's flight from Birmingham was cancelled in the last minute coz of the weather - seemingly all the other flights were going ok though. He had to make his own way to Stansted, they wouldn't pay for hotels or for transport costs. Needless to say they are livid and are not going to fly with Ryanair again.
They said they were just taking the pi$$ looking for free publicity.luckylucky wrote: »On the toilet thing, my wife actually said to me a couple of months ago - half in jest and half serious that next thing you'll know is that Ryanair will start charging you for using the toilet. Looks like she might have been more right than I thought.
If Ryanair were not offering value for money people would not be using their service. They are no less comfortable than getting on a bus eireann or citylink bus for 2-3 hours - why should flying be any different? There is at least the same amount of leg room on a ryanair flight as there is on a bus eireann or citylink bus.luckylucky wrote: »Anyway I think whether this toilet charging story is a pisstake or not - it's time that the EU starts regulating the airline industry a whole lot more as it's getting out of hand. Passengers are treated really badly these days and it semes to be getting worse and worse - it's time to reverse this trend imo. These days it's easier to get around to seeing different parts of Europe but unfortunately some sh1t airlines like Ryanair have got routes that passengers like, so if you take the route of starting to avoid certain airlines - then you can be severely limited. For Irish passengers in particular were you to start boycotting (something I wouldn't blame anyone for doing) Ryanair it would really curtail where you could go to easily.
Personally I'd prefer to pay a little bit more if it ensured some basic comfort and a reasonable service. Imo Seat length and width should be big enough to ensure that most people are not going to feel squashed. I mean I'm 5'10" and I feel squashed on a lot of these budget flights - god help those over 6 foot.
Flying is of course more susceptible to weather and other problems so there will always be more delays and cancellations. End of the day you generally get what you paid for. I have flown the dublin - berlin route about 60 times over the past 3 years or so and the only times I was delayed was with aerlingus twice (once from dublin and once from berlin). I was never delayed with ryanair.
I think people still want to fly in a hotel just because it is an airplane but dont want to pay the associated costs.
I hope you realise that you can take advantage of priority boarding and food all the way to your destination and it would still generally work out cheaper than an aerlingus flight. That way you can get the emergency exit seats or the front row where you have lots of legroom and it costs you just a little more.0 -
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Fighting Irish wrote: »if you want to sit on a plane and fly from A to B then go with ryanair, thats what they offer and i'm glad they do
Problem is that Ryanair rarely fly from A to B, its usually A to B*.
B* being some 30 miles outside of B.
Whenever I have checked recently, Aerlingus has been the same if not cheaper, so I go AerLingus now.
When I first heard that Ryanair were going to stop taking the piss I was happy...then I heard they were charging for it instead
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