Let me tell you about my little trip with Ryanair. I booked online with Ryanair and checked in online too.
Priority boarding for online check in it said on their website, great I thought. So I watlzed thru' to the gate and there are a couple of chimps doing dispatch. Gate opens, almighty rush for the tunnel, old ladies and children go flying and there I was with boarding card No 1 stuck at the back 20 deep sweaty travellers.
20 mins late off chocks. Cabin crew crosscheck blah! Afterburner from the mid point of STN's 05, max rate climb to make up time lost time from Froggy ATC delays earlier in the day, head for TNT climbing to FL180, 20 mins in the cruise, Polish/Irish/Lativian half asleep cabin crew try to flog allsorts & still manage to collect rubbish from cabin. Pointy End says time to go back down, airframe shaking as the lift dumps try to cope with Space Shuttle 25 deg glidepath, 250kts approach. Flaps and gear at 3 miles, thump we've arrived, handbrake turn at the mid point, brakes on, everybody off, and all for £10.
Fantastic Ryanair, reminded me of my days flying F4's, bejesus I loved it!
