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Join Date: Aug 2006
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On the booking front, the situation is rather... miserable. At least outside of the UK, where you get repeatedly messages like "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable" as soon as you try to book (the issue has been verified by messages/forums in several countries). I can envisage a quasi-triumphant propaganda tomorrow: "due to unprecedented demand" (and so on), but later I can anticipate Navitaire (the software provider) being sued by Ryanair for the losses and damages brought about by the malfunctioning sales system. I just hope I'm wrong. 
Join Date: Jul 2006
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Oh, why cannot there be a Cork-Beauvais secretly hiding away in the booking engine!
Join Date: Aug 2000
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The Aer Lingus fares are too expensive on Cork- CDG for at least the last two years. Now, I know ryan2000 made mention of it on this or the EI thread but some of my own relations have been comparing the EI fares from Cork to CDG and the FR fares from 'Th'Other Place' to BVA for April and May and the difference is just away too much. The EI fares from Cork to Paris are just far too high for folk with more modest budgets. It is not anything like business class seats my relations are looking for either for that matter.
Join Date: Jul 2006
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The Aer Lingus fares are too expensive on Cork- CDG for at least the last two years. Now, I know ryan2000 made mention of it on this or the EI thread but some of my own relations have been comparing the EI fares from Cork to CDG and the FR fares from 'Th'Other Place' to BVA for April and May and the difference is just away too much. The EI fares from Cork to Paris are just far too high for folk with more modest budgets. It is not anything like business class seats my relations are looking for either for that matter.
Join Date: Apr 2004
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Ork-cdg
Aerlingus are definietely milking it on ORK-CDG and making no effort to expand the frequency.
Excellent value can be got by booking in advance on their other ORK routes good deals are very rare on this route.
It's only a matter of time before Ryanair take them on in Cork so EI should look at their costs, particularly the outdated practice of putting crews up in local hotels. Is Cork an EI base or is it not?
Excellent value can be got by booking in advance on their other ORK routes good deals are very rare on this route.
It's only a matter of time before Ryanair take them on in Cork so EI should look at their costs, particularly the outdated practice of putting crews up in local hotels. Is Cork an EI base or is it not?
Join Date: Jul 2006
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It's only a matter of time before Ryanair take them on in Cork so EI should look at their costs, particularly the outdated practice of putting crews up in local hotels. Is Cork an EI base or is it not?
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Essex
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The Ryanair website 'appears' to be fully functional at the moment at least. All pages load quickily and you can go through to the final stage of booking in just a few seconds. I will be booking flights later on so will let you know how it goes.
Join Date: Feb 1999
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Seems ok at present the following update is posted on the header page
"The new Ryanair.com website is now up and running. However, due to phenomenal demand some customers are experiencing some delays during the booking process. We are working to resolve these issues as quickly as possible and ask that customers bear with us during this time."
So as always with RYR a positive spin put on difficulties(phenomenal demand).Checked some prices for flights I,m interested in early June quite high prices..perhaps a change in pricing policy introduced at the same time??We live in interesting times.VBR Stampe
"The new Ryanair.com website is now up and running. However, due to phenomenal demand some customers are experiencing some delays during the booking process. We are working to resolve these issues as quickly as possible and ask that customers bear with us during this time."
So as always with RYR a positive spin put on difficulties(phenomenal demand).Checked some prices for flights I,m interested in early June quite high prices..perhaps a change in pricing policy introduced at the same time??We live in interesting times.VBR Stampe
Join Date: Oct 2005
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The website is in a real mess.
Desperately slow, also IF you are lucky enough to get to a page to put your details in it tries to charge you random insurance premiums even when none is selected and then it simply falls down.
Desperate.
Desperately slow, also IF you are lucky enough to get to a page to put your details in it tries to charge you random insurance premiums even when none is selected and then it simply falls down.
Desperate.
Join Date: Oct 2005
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Deselecting it makes no difference. I sat and watched the amount refresh on the screen in front of me to different amounts without any user intervention.
They have some serious glitches.
They have some serious glitches.
Join Date: Oct 2007
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Correct... the first evening it went live, the taxes and charges would show on the flight select screen once you selected. Now, they only show on the next page once you've chosen your flights (just like the old days in fact!).
What's happened to the 1p offer? I'd have thought there would have been info on routes / dates etc, but the banner on the front page remains unclickable.
The old site was far far better... you could use "find lowest fares" to check their entire route network across 3 weeks from London in 20 mins or so - now it takes a lot lot longer, and you can't even click "back" after selecting a fare without the "POSTDATA" box popping up.
What's happened to the 1p offer? I'd have thought there would have been info on routes / dates etc, but the banner on the front page remains unclickable.
The old site was far far better... you could use "find lowest fares" to check their entire route network across 3 weeks from London in 20 mins or so - now it takes a lot lot longer, and you can't even click "back" after selecting a fare without the "POSTDATA" box popping up.
Join Date: Aug 2005
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This is so frustrating. The website takes around 5 minutes just to show details of a flight, and then times out before you can even go the the next stage of booking. There are no details of how to get these '1p' flights and I'm lucky if the homepage will load at all. At the moment I do not want to send my credit card details through their website if the page is constantly timing out.
Join Date: Aug 2006
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This is so frustrating. The website takes around 5 minutes just to show details of a flight, and then times out before you can even go the the next stage of booking. At the moment I do not want to send my credit card details through their website if the page is constantly timing out.
with the investments as MOL can be... Just think. The Ryanair's policy has traditionally been to avoid main airports, because they are too big, too expensive, too unefficient. So why on Earth did they decide to rely upon Microsoft-based software? Big, expensive, unefficient. And, above all, resource-hungry. The hardware that you could have used with Linux or even W2k will be far too insufficient with all these new MS- technologies requiring XP or even Vista.
Nobody's infallible, but FR has just made some wrong decisions; concerning the routes development, the relations with their customers, now this BIG FLOP (as it seems).
According to FR news: “Our new, improved booking engine will enable us to welcome millions of additional passengers as we double in size to 100m passengers per annum.
I think they have painted themselves into a corner and that will cost them much (in many ways).
Join Date: May 2001
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I fear we may have seen the end of the infamous 1p flights....
When you move through to the payment stage the usual credit card fees are ready to be applied!!!
Guess it was too good to be true
When you move through to the payment stage the usual credit card fees are ready to be applied!!!
Guess it was too good to be true