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Irish restaurant charge Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary with ‘priority seating’ fee
The Independent
An Irish restaurant turned the tables on Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary adding charges for “extra leg space” and “priority booth seating” to the airline boss’s food bill.
Luvida in Navan, Co Meath, joked in a Facebook post on Friday evening: “Thank you to Michael O'Leary for choosing to dine with us tonight! It was a pleasure to host you. “Hope you don't mind us adding some additional charges to your bill for extra leg space, priority booth seating and quiet area reservation.”
The Meath restaurant gave Mr O’Leary a bill with €37.85 (£32) in additional charges, including €7.95 for “extra leg space”, €9.95 for “priority booth seating” and a €19.95 “quiet reservation area” fee. Luvida even added “terminal 1” to the top of the Ryanair CEO’s mock receipt, alongside his order – a bottle of pinot grigio, battered prawns, mushroom toast and sea bass dishes that came to a total of €142.30.
Luvida in Navan, Co Meath, joked in a Facebook post on Friday evening: “Thank you to Michael O'Leary for choosing to dine with us tonight! It was a pleasure to host you. “Hope you don't mind us adding some additional charges to your bill for extra leg space, priority booth seating and quiet area reservation.”
The Meath restaurant gave Mr O’Leary a bill with €37.85 (£32) in additional charges, including €7.95 for “extra leg space”, €9.95 for “priority booth seating” and a €19.95 “quiet reservation area” fee. Luvida even added “terminal 1” to the top of the Ryanair CEO’s mock receipt, alongside his order – a bottle of pinot grigio, battered prawns, mushroom toast and sea bass dishes that came to a total of €142.30.
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From: France
I have a related question : there are no flights loaded beyond the end of October for Basel. Has the Basel-Dublin route fallen victim to Ryanair's protest against changes and limits at the Dublin end, or are they giving up their Basel operations entirely ?
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No routes are on sale yet for the winter timetable yet. I think last year they started loading them about May time.
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Unless you’re being specific to Dublin to Basel, then I’m afraid you’re very wrong. Various routes from BFS for winter 25/26 have been on sale for a while.
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Ryanair winter 25/26
Don't know if anyone is in the know but I'll ask anyway. Ryanair have loaded some schedules for winter up until March 26 mainly from their biggest base Stansted, however there's nothing loaded as yet for many destinations from Birmingham and Manchester after October 25, making it impossible to plan anything for the winter, anyone know what's taking them so long?
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Hello chizlit and welcome to PPRuNe. There is a dedicated thread for RyanAir and I am going to move your enquiry there. Please stay around in the 'cabin' of PPRuNe.
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Don't know if anyone is in the know but I'll ask anyway. Ryanair have loaded some schedules for winter up until March 26 mainly from their biggest base Stansted, however there's nothing loaded as yet for many destinations from Birmingham and Manchester after October 25, making it impossible to plan anything for the winter, anyone know what's taking them so long?
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In contacting Ryainair they've said schedules are published 6 months before who h would mean early April at the latest, however that doesn't explain why some routes are already available until March 2026 while many are still not on place, coupled with the fact the likes of easyJet and Jet 2 already have routes in place.
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Do you not think I've tried that?
In contacting Ryainair they've said schedules are published 6 months before who h would mean early April at the latest, however that doesn't explain why some routes are already available until March 2026 while many are still not on place, coupled with the fact the likes of easyJet and Jet 2 already have routes in place.
In contacting Ryainair they've said schedules are published 6 months before who h would mean early April at the latest, however that doesn't explain why some routes are already available until March 2026 while many are still not on place, coupled with the fact the likes of easyJet and Jet 2 already have routes in place.
You'll find @Matt995 to be a very helpful person who, I'm sure, was not trying to "teach you how to suck eggs".
Anyway, welcome to Pprune.
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Yes I know they do things their own way, and if their way is risking losing business to other airlines then that's on them 😄.
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Schedule release
Do you not think I've tried that?
In contacting Ryainair they've said schedules are published 6 months before who h would mean early April at the latest, however that doesn't explain why some routes are already available until March 2026 while many are still not on place, coupled with the fact the likes of easyJet and Jet 2 already have routes in place.
In contacting Ryainair they've said schedules are published 6 months before who h would mean early April at the latest, however that doesn't explain why some routes are already available until March 2026 while many are still not on place, coupled with the fact the likes of easyJet and Jet 2 already have routes in place.
BHX to has Alicante (LS & U2), BCN (LS, U2 & VY), FUE (LS, U2 & TOM), LPA (LS, U2 & TOM, ACE (LS, U2 & TOM), TFS (LS, U2 TOM) are all released but the ones with no or little competition PMI, RMU, FAO are not released, the same for the cities bar Beauvais which of course competes heavily with U2 and AF.
I was surprised at Verona, which is released but this of course counts as ski (TOM is the only competitor) and all the other ski routes are on sale as already, as they tend to also be early bookers. Another route that I would doubt gets many early bookers which is on sale is Dublin but of course that is another highly competitive route.
Pete
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It is fairly straightforward when it comes to BHX (can't say I have checked other airports), the flights on sale are the ones their competitors have had on sale for ages and they seriously run the risk of losing bookings as these can be traditional earlier bookers in most cases.
BHX to has Alicante (LS & U2), BCN (LS, U2 & VY), FUE (LS, U2 & TOM), LPA (LS, U2 & TOM, ACE (LS, U2 & TOM), TFS (LS, U2 TOM) are all released but the ones with no or little competition PMI, RMU, FAO are not released, the same for the cities bar Beauvais which of course competes heavily with U2 and AF.
I was surprised at Verona, which is released but this of course counts as ski (TOM is the only competitor) and all the other ski routes are on sale as already, as they tend to also be early bookers. Another route that I would doubt gets many early bookers which is on sale is Dublin but of course that is another highly competitive route.
Pete
BHX to has Alicante (LS & U2), BCN (LS, U2 & VY), FUE (LS, U2 & TOM), LPA (LS, U2 & TOM, ACE (LS, U2 & TOM), TFS (LS, U2 TOM) are all released but the ones with no or little competition PMI, RMU, FAO are not released, the same for the cities bar Beauvais which of course competes heavily with U2 and AF.
I was surprised at Verona, which is released but this of course counts as ski (TOM is the only competitor) and all the other ski routes are on sale as already, as they tend to also be early bookers. Another route that I would doubt gets many early bookers which is on sale is Dublin but of course that is another highly competitive route.
Pete
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From: Essex
Absolutely Ryanair will know the booking curve for each destination. Those that are earlier they'll have released now for sale but will make the relevant time/frequency changes later along with other routes.
