Ryanair

[lavrentis]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2326003/Ryanair-air-hostess-blows-whistle-contract-staff-forced-months-unpaid-leave-buy-uniforms.html

 

Love them or hate them they are good at what they do. Never known a company to be supposedly hated yet used by so many.

 

I have flown with them once from EMA and found them to be fine. I like them personally and don't mind O'leary who is a good businessman. 

 

With stories like above its no wonder why they are cheap and they will do everything to get money but people already know this and still use them. Anyone got any horror stories with the airline?

[leicsmac]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2326003/Ryanair-air-hostess-blows-whistle-contract-staff-forced-months-unpaid-leave-buy-uniforms.html

 

Love them or hate them they are good at what they do. Never known a company to be supposedly hated yet used by so many.

 

I have flown with them once from EMA and found them to be fine. I like them personally and don't mind O'leary who is a good businessman. 

 

With stories like above its no wonder why they are cheap and they will do everything to get money but people already know this and still use them. Anyone got any horror stories with the airline?

 

Coming into Stansted from Stockholm, early 2007. Conditions weren't great for landing (quite stormy), and as we came in I felt the plane tilting side to side as the pilot tried to keep level in the crosswinds. But you'd expect a decent pilot to be able to master that, right?

 

So we come in, and the wings are all over the place. I'm sitting there shitting bricks, genuinely thinking one of the wings is going to touch down first. Never experienced anything like it. Hit the ground with the most almighty thud I have ever had while landing. Couple of people yell. Pilot then sticks on the reverse thrust so hard everyone's nearly out their seats. Not sure if he didn't have much runway left to work with or what but it was by far the most ballsed-up landing I've ever had, despite everyone arriving on the ground in one piece. 

 

Not flown with RyanScare since.

[JonnyBoy]

flew with them last year to Spain with my girlfriend, you get what your given here tbh. Like a flying bus, tightly packed, everything is shoddy plastic, no leg room, people fighting to get a seat, arguments, chavs pissing around when doing the safety talks, people thinking it is ok to smoke e-cigarettes on board. You get the gist 

[Libertine Dream]

Would always rather pay extra just so I don't have to fly with them, not that they're that much cheaper anyway

[jonthefox]

Always got me where i wanted to go. And on time.

[Orkneyfox]

Coming into Stansted from Stockholm, early 2007. Conditions weren't great for landing (quite stormy), and as we came in I felt the plane tilting side to side as the pilot tried to keep level in the crosswinds. But you'd expect a decent pilot to be able to master that, right?

 

So we come in, and the wings are all over the place. I'm sitting there shitting bricks, genuinely thinking one of the wings is going to touch down first. Never experienced anything like it. Hit the ground with the most almighty thud I have ever had while landing. Couple of people yell. Pilot then sticks on the reverse thrust so hard everyone's nearly out their seats. Not sure if he didn't have much runway left to work with or what but it was by far the most ballsed-up landing I've ever had, despite everyone arriving on the ground in one piece. 

 

Not flown with RyanScare since.

Sounds like a standard landing in Shetland!

[Finnaldo]

To be honest flying with RyanAir is pretty much sacrificing your human rights.

[Wymsey]

Monarch are the best.

[LanguedocFox]

They're the only airline flying to/from my local airports (Béziers and Carcassonne) back to the UK. I can go further, to Toulouse or Montpellier, to fly with BA or Easyjet, but it adds maybe three hours plus extra costs to the journey each way. So I use Ryanair. Doesn't mean I have to like them, though, and I loath O'Leary's fvck-you attitude to customers.

[z-layrex]

This may be utter bollocks and please correct me if I'm wrong, but I heard that pilots take some sort of exams to qualify at the end of their training, and Ryanair take the lowest pass mark out of all the western airlines?

Easy Jet apparently only take the highest scorers. Just something a drunk guy told me once.

[jonthefox]

Monarch are the best.

 

 

Thats good then. I've got a 9 and a half hour flight with them in july.

[Fatty Arbuckle]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2326003/Ryanair-air-hostess-blows-whistle-contract-staff-forced-months-unpaid-leave-buy-uniforms.html

Love them or hate them they are good at what they do. Never known a company to be supposedly hated yet used by so many.

I have flown with them once from EMA and found them to be fine. I like them personally and don't mind O'leary who is a good businessman.

With stories like above its no wonder why they are cheap and they will do everything to get money but people already know this and still use them. Anyone got any horror stories with the airline?

Those 'clams' are untrue! Shocking paper and even worse website. Do they not have people checking things like that?!

[Tielemans63]

I hate them as does everyone in Ireland but unfortunately they're currently the only airline that fly into Derry where my brother and his kids live so I have no choice.

 

Michael O'Leary is absolutely despised over in Ireland.

[notnow john]

This may be utter bollocks and please correct me if I'm wrong, but I heard that pilots take some sort of exams to qualify at the end of their training, and Ryanair take the lowest pass mark out of all the western airlines?

Easy Jet apparently only take the highest scorers. Just something a drunk guy told me once.

Leicsmac's pilot?

[FoxesAreBlue]

I dont get the hatred towards Ryan Air. Nobody is forced to fly on them, if you want a better service, pay for it. If you're happy with your arse on a seat thank you very much, then go cheap.

[davieG]

I've used them 3 times and never had problem you get what it says on the tin.

[MooseBreath]

You pays your peanuts you gets your monkeys.

[Orkneyfox]

You pays your peanuts you gets your monkeys.

[VLC86]

This may be utter bollocks and please correct me if I'm wrong, but I heard that pilots take some sort of exams to qualify at the end of their training, and Ryanair take the lowest pass mark out of all the western airlines?

Easy Jet apparently only take the highest scorers. Just something a drunk guy told me once.

Pretty sure that is utter bollocks mate.

I know a few Ryanair pilots and they have to go through loads of tests/simulations etc.

I think Ryanair are what you make of them, if you want to go somewhere cheap and you just literally want a seat on a plane then their is nothing wrong, if you want luxury then you don't fly with them

[VLC86]

Those 'clams' are untrue! Shocking paper and even worse website. Do they not have people checking things like that?!

Not completely untrue, infact I have heard the exact same things from people who work for them

[Webbo]

Those 'clams' are untrue! Shocking paper and even worse website. Do they not have people checking things like that?!

Are you saying that this named stewardess "Sophie Grewcock" did not report this to her MP "Luciana Berger" and  said MP hasn't accused Michael O'Leary's  airline of" using the tactics to help achieve record profits of nearly half a billion pounds"?

[Guest Bilo]

flew with them last year to Spain with my girlfriend, you get what your given here tbh. Like a flying bus, tightly packed, everything is shoddy plastic, no leg room, people fighting to get a seat, arguments, chavs pissing around when doing the safety talks, people thinking it is ok to smoke e-cigarettes on board. You get the gist 

 

More or less my experience when flying to Italy for work a few years ago.

 

Luggage costs are horrendous as well and you end up being flown to an airport miles away from the city you wish to be in.

 

Once I'd factored in the astronomical baggage charges and transport to get from Treviso to Venice, it was obvious that it would actually have been more or less the same price to fly with BA and a far more pleasant experience.

 

You get more space on BA flights, free soft drinks, check-in is painless and efficient, no hidden costs on the price of your ticket and nobody comes round trying to sell you a fvcking scratchcard. 

 

To be fair to Ryanair, you do get what you pay for and O'Leary doesn't pretend he cares about his customers. If you're flying somewhere with hand luggage only and it's not too far, then they might be tolerable but I would rather pay the little extra and feel like a valued customer. Especially when, in the cold light of day, it really is only a little extra.

 

They aren't the worst airline I've flown with either. Step forward Alitalia for that honour.

[Captain...]

If you learn to play the game you get cheap flights, but always check the destination airport and cost/time to where you're actually going, and follow all their ridiculous rules and you'll be fine, fvck up and you'll be fined.

 

Case in point, had a printer malfunction when printing off boarding cards, so re-printed the one that didn't print properly, except I didn't, I re-printed the one that came off ok, so I got to the airport with 2 boarding passes for the return and non for the flight I wanted to get.

 

40 euros for them to print me a boarding card! 40 Euros! Obscene, but it is in the terms and conditions I knew that, I just made a mistake.

 

What does annoy me though is when they make you put all your hand baggage into one bag, the first time they did that I only had a small rucksack, and I had bought a bottle of Whiskey as a present for my Dad the only way I could fit it in was by taking it out of the nice presentation box and cram it in next to my smelly underpants. Even though people were going on with suitcases 4 times the size of my rucksack. That pissed me off.

[ADK]

Tbh i've never had a problem with ryanair although there's more than enough chances for them to make money off you. If you need hold luggage then you might aswell go with BA. One thing i like about Ryanair is they fly to some places that no-one else does.

[Samilktray]

Flew with Skywings once. Terrifying ordeal.