AIBU to trust Ryanair?

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We're looking to book a holiday for the summer but I've very wary of booking Ryanair after all the trouble people had last summer. Am I just being worried over nothing? I don't want a flight to be cancelled at short notice. For info we'd be flying from a main airport to a popular tourist place e.g. somewhere in Spain.

It might. Its the price you pay for having international travel that costs just a couple of quid.

Just make sure you check out on your journey home. Me and my husband didn't know we were meant to do this. Nothing said in all our paperwork. It was our first holiday abroad. And the hotel said they would sort everything out for us.

We got to the airport with all the documents the hotel gave us to be told we were not aloud back into our country unless we pay 90 euro because we hadn't checked out. Obviously I asked to do it then on the computer at the side of us and they said the checking out closes 4 hour before you travel 😠😠 wtf. So we obviously had to pay €90. Luckily we just had €85 and £5 but again they wouldn't accept English money. That's a whole other thread lol.

Have a brilliant holiday. And remember to check out lol.

I do hate Ryanair for many reasons, but I really don't think you would be risk-free with any other airline unfortunately. Check online, many people who booked too early with others had their flights changed or fully cancelled.

Do compare with the other airlines, unless Ryanair has a monopoly on the route, I found them to end up being as expensive or more than even BA or others.

Loads of other carriers. No way I would use RyanAir, they can't be trusted. Use skyscanner and look at the other options.

You have to follow their rules carefully - i took a printout with me highlighted and wore a massive jacket carrying most of my heavy items to avoid charges. We didnt have any problems, but then that was before last summer

As someone else said - you get what you pay for

Just make sure you check out on your journey home. Me and my husband didn't know we were meant to do this. Nothing said in all our paperwork. It was our first holiday abroad. And the hotel said they would sort everything out for us

What are you talking about? Check out of what? What does your hotel have to do with ryanair flights? Nothing.

Task, I think the PP may mean check in? easy to forget you need to check in online for both journeys.

I don't particularly like flying with them, but if it's just for a couple of hours and you only take hand luggage it's ridiculously cheap and I've never had any problems. You just need to weigh up your risks and budget.

Problem is sometimes they’re the only airline going to where you’re visiting. I’ve had to use them when flying to certain parts of Finland or Ireland.
I ve personally never had any trouble with them, double check their rules and regs before you book.
That being said, if I don’t have to use them, I don’t tend to.

This a volatile area and IIWM I would pick another carrier because of their staffing issues like the pilots' strike last month that remains unresolved. I guess you have to ask yourself how important saving money on a normal fare is to you. A lot of people calculate that paying peanuts gives them more spending money for the holiday, end of.

Ryanair are successful in a very difficult market because of their low ticket prices and tough management style. They are not your friend, you are inconvenienced and subjected to the hard sell the moment you buy a ticket. Ryanair make higher charges than other airlines do (if at all) for many things - the list is long:

www.tripsavvy.com/ryanair-charges-fees-1644055

With Ryanair you can check in for both journeys weeks in advance, unless they 've changed that?

Don’t trust them. I appreciate you may have to use them if there’s no alternative carrier (within a reasonable price bracket anyway), but expect the worst. Expect to be made to pay for every upgrade. Then expect not to get it, etc. Hopefully then the experience can only be better than expected :) taking DCs with you?

I won’t use Ryanair now.
Even if they are a bit cheaper I would just worry too much about cancelled flights etc so it’s really not worth it.
Also, if you look not how they recruit and train pilots it’s awful

I wouldn't t use them. What they did to people last year should have finished them, but deep in the crisis with thousands of people stranded they released a TV advert for £9.99 fares. People just can't resist. It's the old adage 'you get what you pay for'

People should be heavily boycotting Ryanair, instead they see past the awful practice for a cheap ticket!

We still use them, have done a few times since last summer, never had any hassle either before or since.
New rules are easy to follow, if you want your case overhead pay €5 for priority boarding if your happy to put it in the hold carry it to gate as normal & they will take it there, as they did anyway once the queue went beyond the 90 bags or whatever it can hold.

I work in travel and would not book for myself or anyone else Ryanair there are always alternatives

You've all unsettled me now. I used them (future trip) because they were the only airline who flew direct between the two ports I will be visiting. Plus, the alternatives were Air France or KLM which are hardly stellar options these days anyway. I purchased tickets well in advance and took a more expensive fare with some extras. It was still a cheap option.

Ryanair are brilliant at generating their own terrible publicity but I've flown with them a lot and have never had any problems - definitely no frills but punctual and stupidly cheap as long as you follow the rules

We use them a lot and have done for many years. Best routes to where we have needed to go and prices incomparable to most other airlines. You just need to make sure you are fully aware of their current rules, as they do like to keep changing them, and pay extra for anything that's essential to you like seats/bag.

To the pp that said they always charge more for extras I can think of 2 examples off the top of my head where they are actually more generous than others.

2 free items of equipment per infant or child (some airlines only allow 1) and (regardless of where they make you put it) a 'full size' cabin bag allowance where some budget carriers have reduced the size to much smaller unless you pay to upgrade.

I'm sure other points about their ethics etc may have validity but I'm not wealthy enough to be quite so principled. The rest is just a case of getting on with it and knowing you get what you pay for.

I read somewhere that planes are kept cold to prevent fainting on flights, which always worry me because Ryanair flights are absolutely boiling.

I use Ryanair but I don't trust them at all