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@Anansis. Did you have enough money on the prepaid card? If not a secret (and forum rules allow) what kind of MC Prepaid you have?
A quick Google search suggests that some people experienced similar problems last summer. However, I've used the card recently and have never had any problems before. I would call the Ryanair helpline but this would end up costing me more than the admin fee!
I'm a cynic by nature. If this is a problem with Ryanair I doubt they will be in a hurry to fix it...
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2012 Summer Flights out of Luton
Buster - APaul is mostly correct in that in the case of Luton virtually all of the routes announced were just dropped for the winter (some for the first time).
However, Alghero is a brand new route.
OLY1B
However, Alghero is a brand new route.
OLY1B
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Have friends who are flying with Ryanair from ACE-DUB today and there flight was scheduled to arrive in Dublin at 18.40 but its now delayed until 04.20 tomorrow (according to DUB airport). ACE closes at midnight and they still have not left and the gate has said flight delayed since 12.00 today. Will the airport allow the flight to operate if its after midnight. Passengers are angry with such lack of infomation from FR. A number of passenger wanted to leave and come back but were not allowed. Flight was due to leave at 14.15. Still has not left.
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I was having a read of another forum and came across this reply when someone asked about getting a job as crew with FR. All of this seems mad, is it true and accurate?
No other airline charges (up to €2500) for training. You will also be charged €25 a month for your uniform. You only get paid for the time you are flying and you will be required, under pain of dismissal, to work several unpaid hours a day. There is no limit in the contract on the days you will be required to serve on standby for just €35 a day at the airport, and unpaid at home (when you will have to report within an hour, in uniform, of getting a phone call). Although you will get a contract, it does not gurantee you any minimum earnings and, despite signing it, the company you work for (an agency and not Ryanair) doesn't have to give you any work. Your chances of being employed direct by ryanair are very slim. Many kids don't get any work for weeks over the winter - all unpaid.
You have a minimum 10% chance (some say 30%, others more) of getting sacked before you complete your first year. You can be sacked for not selling enough on the aircraft. You can also get the sack for being sick. As many kids leave in disgust because of bullying as are sacked. They don't give you your last month's commission if you get sacked - the company keeps it. They may also deduct €1300 New Joiner's Fee from your last wage-packet plus any money owed for uniform, training, etc. I met a French girl in tears at Dublin airport after she was unexpectedly summoned from Brussels to be sacked. She got a phone call the night before to come to Dublin via Italy (the only flights Ryanair could arrange). There was no warning. She was expecting a last pay-cheque of €1500, she got €120. And the day she wasted travelling to Dublin via Bergamo and back was, of course, unpaid. If you are sacked - don't sign anything - you are signing away your right to sue them for wrongful dismissal.
There is absolutely no guarantee that you will be based in Dublin - you can just as easily end up in Poland.
Don't waste your money on this dreadful company. They have the greatest turnover of cabin crew of any airline in Europe.
No other airline charges (up to €2500) for training. You will also be charged €25 a month for your uniform. You only get paid for the time you are flying and you will be required, under pain of dismissal, to work several unpaid hours a day. There is no limit in the contract on the days you will be required to serve on standby for just €35 a day at the airport, and unpaid at home (when you will have to report within an hour, in uniform, of getting a phone call). Although you will get a contract, it does not gurantee you any minimum earnings and, despite signing it, the company you work for (an agency and not Ryanair) doesn't have to give you any work. Your chances of being employed direct by ryanair are very slim. Many kids don't get any work for weeks over the winter - all unpaid.
You have a minimum 10% chance (some say 30%, others more) of getting sacked before you complete your first year. You can be sacked for not selling enough on the aircraft. You can also get the sack for being sick. As many kids leave in disgust because of bullying as are sacked. They don't give you your last month's commission if you get sacked - the company keeps it. They may also deduct €1300 New Joiner's Fee from your last wage-packet plus any money owed for uniform, training, etc. I met a French girl in tears at Dublin airport after she was unexpectedly summoned from Brussels to be sacked. She got a phone call the night before to come to Dublin via Italy (the only flights Ryanair could arrange). There was no warning. She was expecting a last pay-cheque of €1500, she got €120. And the day she wasted travelling to Dublin via Bergamo and back was, of course, unpaid. If you are sacked - don't sign anything - you are signing away your right to sue them for wrongful dismissal.
There is absolutely no guarantee that you will be based in Dublin - you can just as easily end up in Poland.
Don't waste your money on this dreadful company. They have the greatest turnover of cabin crew of any airline in Europe.
Because they are rip off merchants and people will pay these fees. Even if they were £200 people would pay it. As long as the public fly with these people then they will ride rough shot without a care as long as they are making money. They will charge what they like for what they like. if you don't like it then don't fly with them - simple.
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It's to stop people from buying flights in bulk and then selling them off for higher prices. This makes it fairer for everyone and stops people from buying all the cheap flights and selling them for profit, which has happened years ago when this fee was much smaller.
It was not uncommon years ago when the 1p flights and the 1 euro flights were released they would be all sold out on many journeys within an hour, the flights would then be resold by travel agents as part of packages for profit, as lets face it, with that many cheap seats you could easily recover your costs with just a small number of people purchasing the resold seats from you.
I was on several flights where there was 189 passengers booked only for the plane to be half empty. Research showed that the majority of people who were not arriving were all those who had the cheapest cost flights. Also on some flights it was the same names coming up again and again that never turned out, most likely fake names used by the travel agents over and over again on flights they intended to resell - all it meant is the people who actually wanted to fly on the cheap flights never got them because they were bought up by travel agents as in investment.
In any case, name corrections or typing errors are fixed free of charge, all you need to do is to phone up the reservations line to change the name on the ticket and they can do it no problem. This is the case for things such as missing middle names, mis-spaced names, incorrect punctuation, and typing or spelling errors. If you want to change the name totally you need to pay.
It was not uncommon years ago when the 1p flights and the 1 euro flights were released they would be all sold out on many journeys within an hour, the flights would then be resold by travel agents as part of packages for profit, as lets face it, with that many cheap seats you could easily recover your costs with just a small number of people purchasing the resold seats from you.
I was on several flights where there was 189 passengers booked only for the plane to be half empty. Research showed that the majority of people who were not arriving were all those who had the cheapest cost flights. Also on some flights it was the same names coming up again and again that never turned out, most likely fake names used by the travel agents over and over again on flights they intended to resell - all it meant is the people who actually wanted to fly on the cheap flights never got them because they were bought up by travel agents as in investment.
In any case, name corrections or typing errors are fixed free of charge, all you need to do is to phone up the reservations line to change the name on the ticket and they can do it no problem. This is the case for things such as missing middle names, mis-spaced names, incorrect punctuation, and typing or spelling errors. If you want to change the name totally you need to pay.
It's to stop people from buying flights in bulk and then selling them off for higher prices. This makes it fairer for everyone and stops people from buying all the cheap flights and selling them for profit, which has happened years ago when this fee was much smaller.
Many people will have gone to maybe a music concert or a football match and seen touts hovering outside offering to buy or sell tickets. If on entering the venue there was a requirement to show photo ID matching the name on the ticket the whole tout thing largely disappear. The venue can still have an authorised ticket change / resale office.
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Would appear that the latest info is departing ACE at 23.55 with DUB arrival of 04.20.
Faro will be 7 a/c and not the planned 8.
Leipzig - canceled
Milan-BGY - canceled
Nantes - planned to be canceled but its not
East-Midlands - 2 weekly flights dropped
Bournemouth - 1 weekly flight dropped
Paris-BVA - 1 weekly flight dropped
Cork - 1 weekly flight dropped
Masstricht - 1 weekly flight dropped
Bristol - 1 weekly flight dropped
Ryanair say its for operational reasons and the canceled routes were picked as they had low bookings.
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Faro will be 7 a/c and not the planned 8.
Leipzig - canceled
Milan-BGY - canceled
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Leipzig - canceled
Milan-BGY - canceled
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Another way of getting enemies is changing flight schedules, that happens far too often. "Operational reasons" or not, people might have bought e.g. rail or ferry tickets and may not been able to use them, losing connections. I do not even need to mention those who still desperately try to plan connecting flights. True, it's never been supported and, considering higher than ever prices, doesn't pay anymore.
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Milan was only added about 6 weeks ago so can't see to many pax being put out. They tried it before from FAO and it was dropped, with bother a second time?
I suspect that the aircraft will be going to BUD which was only announced recently and then the above was announced.
I suspect that the aircraft will be going to BUD which was only announced recently and then the above was announced.
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man-bud 1/3
01/03/2012 - Flight Cancellation - FR8357 Budapest to Manchester?
Oh dear, not all is well out east!
Any more information on this?
Pete
Oh dear, not all is well out east!
Any more information on this?
Pete
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As it was about 2hr late, is it possible that they didn't ask for a lather slot.
FR835P - Manchester - 00.15 - on BUD flight info.
Edit: MAN-BUD leg being operated by MAN aircraft.
FR835P - Manchester - 00.15 - on BUD flight info.
Edit: MAN-BUD leg being operated by MAN aircraft.
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Airbourne - in reply to your post it all sounds about true I have heard about cabin crew at Stansted getting into taxis late at night and breaking down in tears telling of how bad their job is....in fact I interviewed a girl a few days ago who having shelled out for training and passed everything was told there was no work for her, despite trying 3 times over 6 months. Sooner or later the EU courts will catch up with Ryanair.