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Have you noticed a new destination in Ryanair's network? Dole, France, a formerly military, war-time Luftwaffe airport. Dole is a commune in the Jura department in the Franche-Comté region in eastern France, close to a Swiss border, population 25.000, small indeed. The fist route to Dole will lead... no, not from STN, from Porto. A weird choice.
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Bye Bye Ryanair
Well the time has come, I thought this would never happen but im off to another Airline I am sick of the whole Ryanair website, Ryanair used to be so easy and straight forward and if I have had enough what are new or less loyal passengers going to think of the mess and lack of visable flight dates, times and prices the last straw was the new security words I entred two but give up on my booking after I got the word wrong, why would anyone want to book a Ryanair flight that taks as long to book as it does to fly to your destination, It makes me so mad, I love the easy 20min drive to STN but would now rather travel to LGW or LTN to take my flight rather than waste most of my evening trying to book a flight on the stupid site, even when your through the security word you find "low fares available" and yes i know I can look on outher countries sites but WHY SHOULD I !!! so with out going over it all again BYE BYE RYANAIR, I guess I am one of many that just cant be 
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Just to add I gave up on booking my next flight from STN to ACE and have booked LGW to ACE with easyjet and it was £20 cheaper.
anymore.Just to add I gave up on booking my next flight from STN to ACE and have booked LGW to ACE with easyjet and it was £20 cheaper.
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How many people from Dole will fly to Porto every year? I wish Dole very well, but to my mind a very small town should start with a connection to much bigger place for such a route to survive.
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Ryanair is treating the booking system as a valuable treasury and their potential customers more and more like thieves that try to stole their precious tickets from that safe. A pity for them.
A friend of mine used to make regular searches on the FR website, something like half an hour every two weeks, it was a pleasure for him. Once a month or so he did find something and made purchases for himself or others. Yesterday he sent me a message: it's not a pleasure any more, I have to find something else. Daz, you're not alone, apparently.
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A lot of people will use the route. There is an enormous portuguese community in France and Switzerland.
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What im worried about is, If it has got to much for me, how many others are going to look elsewhere 
. Many on here will tell you how I was one of the top supporters of Ryanair on this site and many others but there is only so much I can take 
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Why would any web site be made so unuser friendly, so much so you cant see what day flights go where, you cant see how much flights cost and the site even tells you flights are available when there arnt any.
infact it is easier to book a car on the Ryanair website than it is to book a flight, If Ryanair cant see how the website is turning long standing loyal customers away and stopping new customers from booking (not all) then I can only think they have got to big to fast and they need to slow down and take stock.
For me it is to late, unless thing change and quick but ill be happy paying and driving that little bit more.
. Many on here will tell you how I was one of the top supporters of Ryanair on this site and many others but there is only so much I can take .Why would any web site be made so unuser friendly, so much so you cant see what day flights go where, you cant see how much flights cost and the site even tells you flights are available when there arnt any
.infact it is easier to book a car on the Ryanair website than it is to book a flight, If Ryanair cant see how the website is turning long standing loyal customers away and stopping new customers from booking (not all) then I can only think they have got to big to fast and they need to slow down and take stock
.For me it is to late, unless thing change and quick but ill be happy paying and driving that little bit more.
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If Ryanair cant see how the website is turning long standing loyal customers away and stopping new customers from booking (not all) then I can only think they have got to big to fast and they need to slow down and take stock 
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For me it is to late, unless thing change and quick
.For me it is to late, unless thing change and quick
Portugese population in France is estimated at just under 1 million
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Dole is quite a small city, but it is close to 2 larger cities : Dijon and Besançon. Both cities are far away from international airports and I'm sure that this route will be very apreciated by the local inhabitants.
And OPO has many connections to France, including some small cities. (LIL, BVA, XCR, TUF, LRH, EBU, BOD, RDZ, CCF and now DLE)
And OPO has many connections to France, including some small cities. (LIL, BVA, XCR, TUF, LRH, EBU, BOD, RDZ, CCF and now DLE)
Noticed that FR have now changed the booking section of the website. The security code / CAPTCHA used to kick in aftef you'd seen prices for 8 or 10 dates on a single route. Now it kicks in when you've seen prices on just 4 dates ! Guess somebody in Dublin is feeling really confident about customers being keen to book with FR
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I so can't be bothered as my eyesight isn't really great, it ususally takes 2-3 attempts to get through. Can someone expand on how the screenscrapers operate? Surely FR can tell it was booked via one and decline as per Ts and Cs?
Skip - once Ryanair take money from a credit / debit card, consideration (i.e. payment on a card) has been exchanged for something of value (namely a promise of transport on a flight), a legal contract has been formed. I'm ignoring cases where fraud has occurred or statute law has been broken in some way. If Ryanair want to refuse passage to a particular person because they suspect a screenscraper is involved but still operate the flight for everyone else, they probably need to decline to accept the credit / debit card before payment is made.
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I was given a CAPTCHA the first time I searched for a flight on arriving at the site (but it should know I am a returning visitor).
This, together with having to agree to Ts & Cs BEFORE even searching, rather than at the time of booking, is one step too far.
I lost my respect for Stelios when he came out with his Fastjet idea and sounded like a spoilt brat throwing his rattle out of the pram.
With this latest move, MOL is chucking out any good will that many loyal customers will have shown over the years.
Re: Dole - to what extent is this Geneva North / Basel West - neither being Ryanair friendly airports, and also an alternative to Lyon from the north / east.
This, together with having to agree to Ts & Cs BEFORE even searching, rather than at the time of booking, is one step too far.
I lost my respect for Stelios when he came out with his Fastjet idea and sounded like a spoilt brat throwing his rattle out of the pram.
With this latest move, MOL is chucking out any good will that many loyal customers will have shown over the years.
Re: Dole - to what extent is this Geneva North / Basel West - neither being Ryanair friendly airports, and also an alternative to Lyon from the north / east.
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All that Ryanair-made fuss about screen-scrapers encouraged me to try bravofly. Actually, it's faster. Best of all, it doesn't ask me to guess peculiar words and write them all the time. Good!
Actually, I didn't buy any tickets yet, but will consider for sure.
Something went wrong, Mr. Scrooge?
Actually, I didn't buy any tickets yet, but will consider for sure.
Something went wrong, Mr. Scrooge?