ryan air

[marco]

What if they don’t cancel your outbound but cancel your inbound whilst you are there. Might be problematic and expensive.

yes true and i did think of that, im not 100% sure as the law stands i think they have to offer an alternative flight even if its with another airline and they are liable for any hotels etc if they cant get you back on the same date, no good though if your returning on say a monday and you cant get back for work until wed,, from November until March only 1% of customers are going to have a cancelation so versus the flight cost of £28 to TFS i think its worth the risk, i have flown with them previous and have no gripes and for a budget airline i'd still give them a 9/10

 

[johnmc]

yes true and i did think of that, im not 100% sure as the law stands i think they have to offer an alternative flight even if its with another airline and they are liable for any hotels etc if they cant get you back on the same date, no good though if your returning on say a monday and you cant get back for work until wed,, from November until March only 1% of customers are going to have a cancelation so versus the flight cost of £28 to TFS i think its worth the risk, i have flown with them previous and have no gripes and for a budget airline i'd still give them a 9/10

Yeah true. And travel insurance is pennies nowadays and includes cancellation cover. Sounds good to me. Cheap flights them.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

No it doesn’t!
Many insurers are having nothing to with the Ryanair fiasco.

 

[bluwes]

Have been looking for flights to Tenerife next March. Ryan comes out cheapest but we have booked with Jet2 and I think a lot of people will do the same as they feel more confident that they'll actually get there and back

 

[TheBlueDune]

would it not be possible the pilots excuse has been created to mask other major problems at the company?

Nail and head.
And shifting blame to pilots not selling their holidays.
Maybe o'leary is looking to do an uber and get the pilots paid per flight.

 

[East Level 2]

would it not be possible the pilots excuse has been created to mask other major problems at the company?

Seems likely. I don't have the figures for number of pilots, the number and duration of flights and their terms and conditions, but the sheer number of cancellations looks like the problems has to be more than just a matter of badly scheduled leave rotas.

 

[bluethrunthru]

Nail and head.
And shifting blame to pilots not selling their holidays.
Maybe o'leary is looking to do an uber and get the pilots paid per flight.

as there seems to be a world shortage of commercial airline pilots he'd be madder than I think - madder than Trump even - to go down that avenue. BALPA would be unlikely to let that pass lightly and all his pilots will be recruited by his salary paying rivals and he will have fuck all routes to fly then.

 

[bluethrunthru]

yes true and i did think of that, im not 100% sure as the law stands i think they have to offer an alternative flight even if its with another airline and they are liable for any hotels etc if they cant get you back on the same date, no good though if your returning on say a monday and you cant get back for work until wed,, from November until March only 1% of customers are going to have a cancelation so versus the flight cost of £28 to TFS i think its worth the risk, i have flown with them previous and have no gripes and for a budget airline i'd still give them a 9/10

I've flown with them too with no issues but wouldn't trust them at all now. A £28 flight isn't a flight if it doesn't actually go anywhere. Fuck them and fuck O'Leary if you ask me - the shyster has tried the old Irish blarney a bit too much with this one - Ryan Airs next results and passenger numbers will be watched very closely. Fact is if you can get a flight with Ryan Air there and back for £100 BUT say Easy Jet are 50% dearer what would you do? Pitch in the extra 50% - all £50 of it in the knowledge you aren't likely to be left high and dry at short notice ???

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Here’s an update on your rights since they met the CAA deadline.

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/travel/2017/09/ryanair-cancels-more-flights

 

[Blue Mist]

It was briefly mentioned earlier but when City played Juve in the Uefa cup some years back a load of Blues were flying the next day out of Milan (to Liverpool) with Ryan Air. We were all on the plane, there was the tiniest bit of snow on the ground but the announcement came that the airport was closed and we had to get off. As I stood there in the Ryan Air queue trying to sort something out three blues that i had met earlier passed. They had missed our flight and so had booked on a later flight to London. I queried this with them as I thought the airport was closed. Was it F8CK. They flew off whereas i had to book my own hotel and a flight with another carrier (into Manchester) and stand all the expense. Then all that Ryan Air would give me was the price of my cancelled flight.
So No i don't have any sympathy with them at all. They have treated their pilots like shit, the pilots have gone elsewhere and now it is biting them on the arse.