RYR passengers are not unique. As soon as any airline starts to charge for anything, passengers will try to avoid the charge. Just like airlines try to avoid the charges for GPUs, airbridge, pushbacks, landing fees, nav. charges etc. Airports are just as greedy. In the U.K. they use security as a pretence to stop free parking near the terminal and then charge premium rates to park in the same spots. Long term parking is in the order of £17-18 per day, terminal improvements "for your benefit and convenience" means more wretched shops, gates are announced late to keep the punters shopping, some charge for snap-lock bags at security and you pay for 'fast track." Then we get to airlines. Using cookies, they determine you have looked at a particular flight more than once, so the price goes up on the second or third look. Splitting families so they can chisel out a few more quid by forcing you to pay to select your seat. Premium seating, speedy boarding, meals and sodding scratch cards... and then taking you to an airport nowhere near the town it is alledged to be near. So remind me again just exactly who is taking the piss.
Last edited by Piltdown Man; 30th Jul 2017 at 21:45.
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