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TRS2:
When did you last go into Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's or Morrisons and find that the 28p tin of value beans you purchased actually cost closer to £12.28.
I normally find the price quoted on the supermarket shelf is the price I pay.
Not at all. If you go into a supermarket in the UK, the price you pay for any item is the price that is displayed at the check-out not the shelf price. It is at the point of payment that you make a contract.
I normally find the price quoted on the supermarket shelf is the price I pay.
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FR are safe, punctual & obnoxious,
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When did you last go into Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's or Morrisons and find that the 28p tin of value beans you purchased actually cost closer to £12.28.
I normally find the price quoted on the supermarket shelf is the price I pay.
I normally find the price quoted on the supermarket shelf is the price I pay.
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The pricing of airline seats cannot really be compared with the pricing of something like a tin of food in a supermarket. Let's not even go to the pricing policies of the network carriers, where the price you pay is determined by what other flights you are purchasing at the same time, length of stay, etc.
The LCCs pricing is purely on a point to point basis per flight. When you go onto the website and find a flight from A-B for £12 (+ this that and the other!) it's not reasonable to expect that they they will honour that price if you sit and dawdle two hours before actually completing the purchase, so there's an automatic time out. When you refresh, maybe someone else was quicker than you and the price goes up. Despite what has been stated elsewhere in the context of Ryanair and cookies, I have been able to prove, in the case of easyJet, that removing cookies and changing the IP address can reduce a previously quoted fare - maybe this was just coincidental.
On a similar point, if the carrier has 2 seats left at £12 and you ask for 4, it will sell you 4 at the next level up. If you request 2, you will get 2 at the £12 level and must then book the other 2 at the next level up separately. With booking fees etc this may, or may not, save you money, but it's worh knowing.
The same applies with the network carriers too, if there are 2 seats in a specific class, and you request 3, it won't book 2 and waitlist 1, it will depending on how the hosting system handles waitlists, either tell you it's full or waitlist all three.
The LCCs pricing is purely on a point to point basis per flight. When you go onto the website and find a flight from A-B for £12 (+ this that and the other!) it's not reasonable to expect that they they will honour that price if you sit and dawdle two hours before actually completing the purchase, so there's an automatic time out. When you refresh, maybe someone else was quicker than you and the price goes up. Despite what has been stated elsewhere in the context of Ryanair and cookies, I have been able to prove, in the case of easyJet, that removing cookies and changing the IP address can reduce a previously quoted fare - maybe this was just coincidental.
On a similar point, if the carrier has 2 seats left at £12 and you ask for 4, it will sell you 4 at the next level up. If you request 2, you will get 2 at the £12 level and must then book the other 2 at the next level up separately. With booking fees etc this may, or may not, save you money, but it's worh knowing.
The same applies with the network carriers too, if there are 2 seats in a specific class, and you request 3, it won't book 2 and waitlist 1, it will depending on how the hosting system handles waitlists, either tell you it's full or waitlist all three.
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MOL & the culture that he creates is obnoxious, the employee's are not empowered, more de powered and can not move an inch from the pitch because in an insecure job Market they live & work in fear. Whilst Easyjet who have a vey similar model are in another league despite a worse but improving on time performance! Ryanair are not a bus or coach company, they are more akin to the underground, sometimes you have little choice but to use it, most would prefer not out of choice, but you come away feeling soiled. You get there on time and thus far safely but they are still obnoxious IMO
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Morning FR
I difficult not be smelly when you are wearing all your luggage!
Even if your part of the clean 50% when get on you won't be when you get off, the people in FR are fine Its he culture that smells
Have a safe day bud
Even if your part of the clean 50% when get on you won't be when you get off, the people in FR are fine Its he culture that smells
Have a safe day bud
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Funny to read some of the comments and have a totally different experience with the airline than some of you here. I've been flying as a passenger with Ryanair for 3 years from my local base and each and every flight has been great, besides the on-time perfomance (25 minutes delay was the worst I've got), the crew were lovely and attentive, I can not complain really, not even about any "smells", I never noticed pax travelling with lots of layers of clothes or anything, altough I believe some do to not pay for the lugagge.
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Must be flying from Liverpool then?
hahahaahaha
but seriously i do think FR crew are due a massive amount of respect seen a crew recently who had done STN-DUB-STN-DUB-STN all with 25min turnarounds and loads of over 95% not easy but all flights where bang on time and all pax offered beverages etc.. like it astonishes me how people expect to pay for example £12 for a flight from LPL to ORK and expect BA service? you get it cheap expect it cheap, simple as! My basic summary of Ryanair is,1) Pay the low fare
2) Expect the low treatment
3) Get from A to B on-time
4) the humour of looking at cabin crew who look like they are all after a SunnyD overdose, cabin contributes alot to this too
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Stop nagging about FR crew!
I fly FR a couple of timers per year and I have to say...
Stop nagging about the attitude of FR Cabin Crew. IMHO they are as service minded and polite as any other European airline (have not tried any Asian airlines). Come to think about it SAS CC are far worse...
Stop nagging about the attitude of FR Cabin Crew. IMHO they are as service minded and polite as any other European airline (have not tried any Asian airlines). Come to think about it SAS CC are far worse...
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@Bengt
The Asian ones are VERY customer-focused cc's. I've flown Emirates, Qatar and Singapore - all three were astonishing with levels of customer service and determination to satisfy.
The Asian ones are VERY customer-focused cc's. I've flown Emirates, Qatar and Singapore - all three were astonishing with levels of customer service and determination to satisfy.
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Ryanair results be out:
BBC News - Ryanair reports higher profits and passenger numbers
The Irish budget airline Ryanair has reported a jump in first quarter profits and passenger numbers.
Pre-tax profits for the three months to the end of June came in at 156.6m euros ($225m; £138m), up 50% from the same period last year.
Passenger numbers rose 18% to 18m.
Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary said increased had been flattered by the "unnecessary airspace closures" due to the ash cloud from a volcano in Iceland in the same period of 2010.
"Significantly higher revenues were largely offset by higher operating costs as fuel rose 49%," he added.
Ryanair has already announced plans to cut its winter capacity as a result of higher fuel costs.
Pre-tax profits for the three months to the end of June came in at 156.6m euros ($225m; £138m), up 50% from the same period last year.
Passenger numbers rose 18% to 18m.
Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary said increased had been flattered by the "unnecessary airspace closures" due to the ash cloud from a volcano in Iceland in the same period of 2010.
"Significantly higher revenues were largely offset by higher operating costs as fuel rose 49%," he added.
Ryanair has already announced plans to cut its winter capacity as a result of higher fuel costs.
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Girona flights slowly loaded?
Today I found flights from Girona to both NYO and BVA during the winter 
But only on the 26th of December (and for NYO on the 1st of January)
What's going on??
But only on the 26th of December (and for NYO on the 1st of January)
What's going on??
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Speaking about Girona, there are some rumors that RYR is so much eager to press on WIZZ so they're opening a BCN-VNO route this winter. But don't they have an agreement with GRO that all the foreign tourists fly to GRO not to BCN?
Last edited by Wozik; 25th Jul 2011 at 15:24.