Airline/Airport/Travel questions and queries

I was on a flight from Turkey to Ireland with Ryanair a couple of weeks back. The flight was around 4 hours delayed arriving in Turkey and equally arriving back in Dublin.

There was some brief mention by the Pilot of Air Traffic difficulties as the reason for the delay but that was it. Now there might well have been legit Air Traffic control issues outside of Ryanair's control, but I didn't see any other flights at that airport being delayed that night. This was a very late flight, scheduled to depart at 11pm (it was about 3am by the time we actually departed) and in my experience knock on delays from the previous flights that day usually compound delaying the last flight of the day, and I know there can be further delays when planes miss their slots, which to my mind are likely the Air Traffic difficulties they mentioned.

I filled in to Ryanair's own EU261 form, but I got a message a few days later saying my claim wasn't valid, but no reason was given.

My question is whether I can trust Ryanair's response or process given that they've just rejected the claim with no reason or should I pursue it further, and if I do pursue it further, who do I take it up with? Thanks!

It should be announced a number of times during boarding but I've never heard of advance correspondence

It is possible. There are also some new scanners in T1 too but tbh the other lines move faster if you're ok with taking stuff out of your bag

No need - just have the 10kg carry on. T2 it is so!

Passengers at EU Airports Not Allowed to Carry Over 100ml of Liquids on Cabin Luggage as of September 1

EU has decided not to allow passengers to carry more than 100ml liquids in their cabin luggage.

ACI Europe says the new rule will not be welcomed by passengers or airports.

The 100ml restrictions have been relaxed at airports which have installed C3 scanners.

ACI expects that the new restriction will result in significant operational strain and will impact the passenger experience and airports that have deployed this sort of technology, considering that purchasing C3 scanners, can cost almost eight times more than the regular machines. Their maintenance costs are also four times higher.

https://schengen.news/passengers-at-eu-airports-not-allowed-to-carry-over-100ml-of-liquids-on-cabin-luggage-as-of-september-1

Very disappointing news. This completely defeats the whole purpose of the scanners and means airports have wasted a lot of money implementing them.

Surely the benefit to airports and passengers is not having to take liquids and electronics out of your bag. That's the benefit I see in them, we're well used to the liquid limits and working with them for over 20 years

Nope, just in for maintanice with Dublin Aerospace

Any particular reason why flying to Malaga in August is a fraction of the cost of flying the next month (looking at Aer Lingus prices)? I would have thought demand would be lower in September, and there doesn't seem to be any major events on at that time. For example, a 9am flight in early September is 400e but I could book a flight next week for 82e.

Possibly. Hard to know if it'll drop a little in price but from experience the Aer Lingus prices tend to rise if anything (whereas I tend to see Ryanair's fluctuate in either direction).

they are fine, no more no less, used three times 2013 - 2017, smaller aircraft though, two rows of three from memory, I’m in Limerick so Shannon is handy & a joy to use, currently tracking flights for May 25 to Orlando with them as have done that route via Newark twice & it worked out grand

Ryanair emailed me on Tuesday to say that both legs of an upcoming trip had been rescheduled. The email gave me the option on keeping the revised flights, changing them foc, or getting a full refund. I opted for the full refund and book different flights. I still haven't heard anything about the refund and my upcoming trips section still shows both flights.

I spent hours in the queue to chat last night and couldn't get through to anyone, eventually the chat was closed just after 11pm. Today I cannot get through on the chat feature at all, it states my email is invalid.

I have cone across the "requests section in my ryanair account that appears to store these chats and I submitted some screenshots of the email I received to prove I was offered a full refund.

Anyone with any advise on how to get through to speak to someone and get this sorted?

Can you voucher the fare ?

Has the EU commission actually found these scanners to be unsafe or are they just not sure of the results? Seems strange that the EU would give them the go-ahead without being properly sure of the results. I'm sure since it's the EU commission involved these temporary restrictions will be around for the next 5 years at least