Free Flights at Ryanair?! (UK / Poland)

So the Polish love to moan like all the other begrudgers.....not surprising.....!!!

Turning into true EU citizens.......tut...tut.................

Ryanair gave freedom and "liberty" to millions of Europeans........when every other EU country/national carriers refused access to their airports and threatened to take them to court/ put out of business the new Irish upstart........oh how the mighty have fallen............!!!!

THE most profitable airline in the EU.......and most used within the EU.

Sure theres lots about them I don't like, but its been a very successful business model...copied by lots of others. I don't use them as much now, but 4 of us to Paris and back for 40 Euro in April 2009, aint bad.

JUST UNTICK ALL THOSE BOXES GUYS...and travel light!!!!!!

PS I use direct-travel.co.uk Annual family cover within the EU....mind numbing annual, family insurance cover for the grand total of...........£46...oh sorry, I get a discount for using them each year...and deleting personal possessions (normally covered by your own household insurance) its actually 25% less...making it........£34.50...................................................... ...................................................................... .................yes you read correctly.........£34.50 for annual EU wide family travel insurance!!!!!!!!

LONG LIVE RYANAIR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It could be worse:

Easyjet plunged 10,000ft
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7922687.stm

looks like the went budget on the safety team :)

Pay peanuts, get monkeys

I seem to remember Ryanair being in the news for something similar fairly recently.

Bad things can happen in the air and it's how pilots react to them and whether or not everyone walks away that really counts.

There's no need to take such insurance. EU law covers repayments when airlines fuck up. The problem is that Ryanair will only pay if you take them to court.


Ryanair charges potential pilots £50 for the privilege of a job interview and, if they pass, a further £200 for a simulator check. Guess what kind of pilots they get.

Keen ones Harry.......keen ones....;)

Its an employers market at the minute...........

How many fatalities at Ryanair since 1994........eeemmmmm.........zero!!!!!

Am sure someone can count those at BA, American airlines etc....;)

BA have had a grand total of two flights involving loss of life. One was in 1976 when 176 passengers died after Yugoslav air traffic controllers crashed two aircraft into each other. The other was in 1990 when a 747 got caught up in the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and the Iraqis shot a passenger (for being a member of the Kuwaiti royal family).

In fact, since 1994 a grand total of 14 BA passengers have required hospital treatment after accidents/incidents (there was only one, at Heathrow in Jan 2008).

This compares rather well to Ryanair. In 2002 one of their planes needed to be evacuated because the crew thought it was on fire (it wasn't) the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch found that some members of the cabin crew struggled to open the emergency doors and had to be assisted by off-duty cabin crew traveling as passengers. Some passengers attempted to evacuate onto the right wing of the aircraft, before being turned back by firefighters. In August 2008 a Ryanair flight suffered loss of cabin pressure: 16 of the 168 passengers needed to be taken to hospital and several passengers complained that their oxygen masks didn't work. In November 2008 eight passengers required hospital treatment after their plane made an emergency landing at Rome Ciampino airport.

But I'm sure you'll find a charge on their site somewhere for dying on a Ryanair aircraft. Somebody will have to pay for the emergency landing or diversion. I wonder if they sell insurance for it?

All jokes aside, I think that an airline from any developed country is going to be as safe as it is possible to be.

Ryanair, Easyjet etc would be grounded pretty fast if there was any real hint that they weren't safe.

So Ryanair has still had zero fatalities Harry.....;)