Free Flights at Ryanair?! (UK / Poland)

Ryanair are advertising free flights ( no taxes etc ) for travel between October and January. Have to be booked before midnight Monday.

I booked free flights for August (though the flights I booked are now sold out - I wonder why!) the other night! Total for 3 people including taxes and baggage was £170 return!

Gotta watch out for taxes and Ryanair's charges...

In need of relief ? :-)

it is a con ... though some tickets if carefully selected are Free with just taxes to pay with ryanair ... i get newsletters from a money expert dude thats been on tv here in UK that explains how it works

excellent!!! ha ha ha ha....

Just been on the Ryanair website looking at flights to France.
I can get a return flight from GLA ( Pik ) to Marseille for "Free".

Taxes cost £88
Baggage fees cost £46
Max allowance 15kg a bag
Insurance etc extra if you want it.
Flights leave in the middle of the night.

Thats still cheap but after reading some horror stories I am going with another airline and paying £50 extra.
Apparently Ryanair are the worst for cancelling their flights and leaving passengers stranded.

Ryanair tightening its belt again?


news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7914542.stm

Charging a pound to spend a penny eh?

have a look here - Ryanair is thinking of charging for using toilets onboard :)

How much is it to use the toilet to join the "mile high club" ? ;-)

lol good one skotja. anyone any ideas on other charges they could come up with?

lol thats very funny, although i didn`t quite understand all of it i got the gist of it (or perhaps jizz-st)

whats the second guy say?

What language was that in ?

seanus, translation required please :-)

no taxes, free ticket - yes - but add, £10 for handling fee....

Hmmm, was flying with ryanair yesterday, lol, just after we landed, we heard loud fanfares and then the message saying that "we landed 20 mins earlier! ryanair flies on time! etc " (I cant remember the exact message)

it has to be said - That was strange!!! I have never "seen" such marketing!

yes i have heard it a few times, the guy has a slight american accent as well.

£28 to put a bag in the hold.

Don't forget the scratch cards and the bargain spirits. lol.

'Here, thats me in that mad mile high club'

'you were only in there yourself'

'ai!' (yes)

'you clatty bastard!'

my dads scottish so i can understand that haha.

There charging to use the bathroom...lol

How much for a happy ending??

I mean landing:)

When I flew Ryanair, I wasn't too pleased with the booking process. I could only book on line, I therefore had to pay an 'online booking fee'. Of course, I could phone to book but that was a premium rate phone number and there was a 10% surchrage as far as i remember.

Now, booking online, you must pay online, so there was also a fee for paying by card... yeah, like cash was an option online...

To take baggage, yes, there was a baggage fee... and if I recall, a 'check in' fee too..

At the airport, one family had one large suitcase with all their joint luggage in, but, it weighed in over the 15kg. The poor girl behind the check in desk had to explain that the 15kg per person had to be separate and could not be combined into a single suitcase! I'm sure the law of physics with regards to weight in the hold and fuel used really takes into account that the weight is in separate bags. Surely 15kg mass is 15kg mass, once inside the aircraft, it's shape doesn't really matter if they are sat next to each other or in the same bag.

Once on board, the cost of inflight refreshments was astounding so I always took my own food and drink. Then of course, there was the 'duty free' a Ryanair prices, and the 'souvinirs'. Then there were the 'lottery tickets'. Why not leave all that crap on the ground and save the weight and let me not feel obliged to take a crap before getting on board to save weight and therefore fuel?!

You mean they were speaking English with a Scottish accent ??!!


I seem to remember Ryanair being featured on the BBC's '"Watchdog" when Ryanair were having a 'free flights' promotion and it seemed that the only card they didn't charge for using was the Visa Electron card - a bank card hardly anyone has (unless you're really unfortunate).

The basic cost of getting a plane load of people from one place to another is going to be very similar, regardless of the airline. If an airline charges next to nothing for the flight, then they have to get the money back somehow.

There's no such thing as a free lunch, you get what you pay for etc.

I would never fliy Ryanair myself, mainly due to the fact that I can't stand the bloke in charge. The only budget airline I would consider fliying is "Fresh" ;-)

Providing the aircraft is safe and it's a short flight, I'll fly with any airline really. You get what you pay for and I just needed to get from A to B, no frills.

:)

thanks ssj and one more thing what does `clatty` mean?

mister h who/where are `fresh`?

Fair enough, but if the airline pile on lots of extra charges then are you really saving ?


"Fresh" is the fictional budget airline featured in a programme called "Mile High" which was on Sky 1 some years ago.

It's currently (and almost permanently) being repeated on Sky 3 on Sunday nights.

The crew on "Fresh" are the craziest and randiest bunch of people ever to say "doors to manual" and makes very entertaining viewing.

I compared with other airlines and I was still flying for about 50% of what I could have paid... so no real complaints except that they were not fully transparant with their charges. yeah, fly for a quid... plus hundreds of fees..

Mate of mine flew Ryanair and got a pizza delivered to the airport just before his flight took off.


And provided you don't mind if either of your flights get cancelled with no notice so you have to fork out cash for hotels etc with no possibility of getting compensation....

Unclean.

Oh, maybe i should have read the small print but i did take out insurance to cover such events. When the pilot couldn't land to collect us due to high winds, I was more concerned about not getting my holiday to krakow than the money. But that's back when I was in England actually earning a decent living.