To swerve holidays which have Ryanair as the airline?

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All I hear about them is that they go on strike / fine and charge for everything/ cancel /shite planes. Etc etc.

Would you let this put you off?

The planes are brand new btw. They bulk buy new Boeing’s so that every aircraft is the same for quick turnaround.

Basically, I like them for the punctuality, and if there’s only a one hour flight they’re a good option.

Wouldn't take them for a business trip ever. The lack of tray tables and space would make it virtually impossible to get any work done en route.
To be fair they don't advertise themselves as a business class carrier.
There's many a time I have been sat with a person going to a meeting in Brussels or Dublin and they seem to just want the flight to get them to where they want to go and back.

The flights themselves were fine.
It's when the flights don't happen that you have problems. We were compketely abandoned in Europe 18 months ago due to French air traffic controllers strike with no help to get home. We had to hire a car and drive at great expense with no compensation. Appalling treatment.

They don't have tray tables?

They do have tray tables. They don't have seatback pockets.

Flown with RA quite a few times and only once had a delay.

You get what you pay for. Never had an issue with staff /bags etc.

In fact , thinking about it, I can't remember the last time I flew with any other airline.

I just wouldn't fly Ryanair under any circumstances.

^This

I have just booked flights. Cheaper option was RyanAir, but I went with another airline.

I regularly fly a route only serviced by Ryanair for much of the year. Never had a problem, very rarely delayed, new planes and pleasant crew. To be honest, compare a £10 Ryanair flight with a busy train journey maybe costing 10x more but lasting a similar length of time (maybe even standing all the way), they are bloody good value.

It’s a good airline.

Good safety, reliable, punctual, transparent.

Lots of other airlines are less so.

The planes are brand new btw.

No. They are not. Some of them were new last year, but the fleet isn't all brand new. In fact they have many more old aircraft than new.

They bulk buy new Boeing’s

They have been buying Boeing 737's annually since 2002. True they added a lot to the fleet in 2018, but in every other year, including 2002, they have added new aircraft. They have 155 on order atm.

so that every aircraft is the same for quick turnaround

That bit is correct. They operate the 737-800 across the board.

I’m just amused people don’t look behind the baggage policy etc. I fly Ryanair all the time. Their pilots and planes are good, and they are reliable.

I’ve flown many other smaller up airlines and their pilots can be recruited in, so unsure of their standards, the planes are smaller etc.

It doesn’t make sense to base a decision on a sick bag, pocket, staff politeness level or bag size. When there’s more at stake!

or thirty years ( yes Michael I have been there from the start) I have genuinely been Ryanairs biggest fan. They put it up to all the main carriers and now there is a level playing field.

My DB came to see me thirty years ago from Ireland to a regional airport in the UK, he flew solo. Ten years ago he flew with his wife and two children into LGW for what it cost him to fly on his own thirty years ago.

Michael O' Leary is as mad as a box of frogs, but he revolutionised air travel.

In theory if you stick to the rules you will be fine, however even as his biggest fan I am bored with the constant moving of goal posts.

I am hoping to go home in February, but I am flying Flybe from Southampton and paying more because I am bored trying to stay one step ahead of him.

So if this is a Ryanair placed post, you have finally lost me after thirty years.

That should read I have been a huge fan of Ryanair for

or thirty years ( yes Michael I have been there from the start) I have genuinely been Ryanairs biggest fan. They put it up to all the main carriers and now there is a level playing field.

My DB came to see me thirty years ago from Ireland to a regional airport in the UK, he flew solo. Ten years ago he flew with his wife and two children into LGW for what it cost him to fly on his own thirty years ago.

Michael O' Leary is as mad as a box of frogs, but he revolutionised air travel.

In theory if you stick to the rules you will be fine, however even as his biggest fan I am bored with the constant moving of goal posts.

I am hoping to go home in February, but I am flying Flybe from Southampton and paying more because I am bored trying to stay one step ahead of him.

So if this is a Ryanair placed post, you have finally lost me after thirty years.

Michael O' Leary is as mad as a box of frogs, but he revolutionised air travel

Urm, he copied Southwest.

Michael O Leary is one of the few billionaires resident in Ireland for tax. He has also made the island of Ireland accessible, unlike when Aer Lingus had a monopoly and it was a week's wages to go anywhere. Air travel was an expensive luxury pre Ryanair, and ordinary people travelled by coach and ferry to the UK.

I use Ryanair a lot for work (as do all my colleagues). It's fine. More punctual than most in fact!

OTOH all budget airlines tend to be a bit crap if things go wrong (the clue is in the word "budget"). Also flights very late in the day can be less punctual, because the business model depends on quick turnaround which means that any delay earlier in the day is harder to make up.

You get what you pay for they are cheap flights so yes avoid and pay more

We've used them a lot, never had a flight later than a few minutes, staff as pleasant as other in-flight crew as long as they're not spoken to like dirt and as I can and do read the terms and conditions I get what I pay for.
The world is full of those expecting a Rolls Royce service at Megabus prices!