FFS RyanAir again

[Twims]

spend a pound to spend a penny

I'm with fatzak - would be a great April Fool.

I can only presume that Ryanair doesn't want children, older people or anyone with a disability on their planes with policies proposed like this. Personally I can't believe that they charge you if you want to check in at the airport.

I'm another one whose flown with probably less than a pound in their pocket - (shrapnel coins and debit card though) as I had my holiday money stashed in my purse. I'd begrudge spending it on trips to the loo. Even mainline railway stations only charge 30p.

I stopped flying with them with children a while ago. They did away with 'passengers with children going forward first'. It was 'priority passengers' first, and I was one of those as I'd booked on line, but it was a scrum, and I had two children and a buggy and I got tutted at my men with briefcases and women with laptops.

The bottom line is Ryanair do not care about you. Have cystitis? Have 3 children under 2? talk to the hand

theyoungvisitor, laughing out loud at your scenario. "Have a try!" that'd be exactly it! It would be such a bad idea to try and implement that!

this is just the latest in a long line of ryanair publicity stunts

and O'Leary is just taking the piss
as there is no way such a thing would be feasible

They were talking about this on Radio4 at lunchtime -

One caller suggested that they should measure everyone's lung capacity at check in and then charge for the oxygen likely to have been used.

Another suggested that they should have a slot to stick a quid in to get the oxygen masks to descend.

Then there was the idea that they should check what page of your book you were on as you boarded, check again once landed and then charge for the electricity used for the little light accordingly.

They could charge for priority emergency disembarking. In the event of a crash or emergency landing priority passangers get to go down the slide first.

Another Radio 4 one was charging a bus fare for the journey between the gate and the airplane.

But they could also stick in an upgrade charge if you want to use the stairs up to the plane - the alternative being to abseil up with the handy rope provided.

talk about taking the p*ss

I wonder what misers would do? Maybe they would take little bags and pee into them, refusing to use the Ryan Air facilities on principle, then put the wee bags into the rubbish?

I forsee problems.

I think this announcement will prove to be a PR disaster for them. (Hopefully)

Bran, he'd do that, except he doesn't want people to envisage a failure. If ryanair have even one accident with fatalities he is f*ed I think.

He's only ever offered to get you from a to b. No more. It's an air bus. It it's not available on the 84 into town, then don't expect it in the air. You buy the ticket if you want that, you don't moan cos he aint listening.

O'Leary had to listen to me.

Ryanair made up a new kind of fine and I refused to pay it as it wasn't on the official documentation for fines and I didn't believe them. I thought the girl had made it up to make a fast buck, it was so bizarre.

They then refused to carry me and tried to get me arrested at Dublin ariport having accused me of taking pictures of them (I did not have a camera with me).

The police refused to arrest me because I had not committed a crime. They told me not to fly Ryanair because the airline pulled stupid stunts like this all the time.

I paid up but on my return to Ryanair to the small claims court in Dublin via the online facility. I won (of course). They had to pay up - my money plus costs.

Satisfaction.

I vote for a dirty protest: pissing in the aisles.

How does that man sleep at night...?

reeeeeeeeespek boffinmum

my mum flew to see me once, and she noticed this man out of the corner of her eye. He threw his mars bar wrapper on the floor. She hates him extra because of that! he probably did that out of some protest to the airport..

Crackfox, under Civil Aviation Authority regulations, if I have remembered them correctly, airlines are obliged to sit children with their parents for aircraft safety reasons, so you shouldn't have to pay for this.

oh, it was m o'L of course.

boffin, what was the fine supposedly for?

Cheers, bytheLiffey.

I deliberately don't go to places only serviced by Ryanair now, because I do agree they could go under at any time, and also their flights are more expensive than most of the scheduled flights I tend to take. It has always baffled me why people keep using them considering how expensive they are. Easyjet haven't been much better, in our experience.

roar

I wouldn't fly Ryan Air if they paid me.

I was one of the first people to do Check n' Go online.

Their system crashed and locked me out while I was trying to complete the process, therefore I was unable to print off the necessary slip. Indeed I had no way of knowing whether the process had worked at all.

When I got to the airport I explained what had happened and that the website had had a problem, but they said as far as they were concerned, I had checked in online and now needed to be fined 15 euros for not having a slip.

I asked for a receipt and they would not give me one initially because the category of fine was not on the printed slip (hence my suspicion). They said they couldn't check the website situation because they didn't have any computers themselves. They made me wait in front of the desk for 20 minutes while they took it in turns to have a little snigger at me. I then complained about being left for 20 minutes and then they accused me of taking photographs of them and called the police over. (!)

I was hopping mad by the time I got to the departure lounge, and found that many other passengers had experienced the same problem with the website, so I decided to take them on.

Nobody messes with the Boff!

A thought about nappies in relation to the toilet charge thing - presumably people would have to change nappies on their laps and then give the little parcel to the air hostess? Or would you be fined for doing that as well?

you mean like this?

It is highly unprofessional for me to say this, but if O'Leary's son appeared before me in a Higher Education admissions context, I would probably find an excuse not to give him a place.

Watch your back, O'Leary.