hahahahaha....http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/ryanair-tells-overweight-flight-attendants-slim-save-fuel-costs-article-1.1056543

I absolutely refuse to fly Ryanair ever since I nearly got scammed of them face to face. This is one reason why they are so obsessive with money.

Neverthless Ryanair is the 7th largest airline in terms of passwengers carried. - it's doing something right!

Neverthless Ryanair is the 7th largest airline in terms of passwengers carried. - it's doing something right!

 

Agreed.

 

If you don't like cheap airlines, don't fly on cheap airlines! Pay that extra for that "traditional-carrier" and see how "good" the service is.

Its not an argument of cheap airlines v expensive airlines. I like any airline that will let me go on holiday more often for less, I expect the plane to take me there nothing more.

 

Its the purely crap service that the desk agents give that annoys me it's not bad its downright outrageous and I would not be paid to listen to them. We were having a problem with one case being overweight but another under and before saying we would swap our stuff around they sent off our first bag and immediately asked us to pay the overweight baggage charge.

Didn't you check the weights before you le3ft home?

What a fail. Ryanair sounds like a horrible carrier.

Didn't you check the weights before you le3ft home?

 

There was a problem with what we could fit in where, and besides it was fine on the outbound flight.

I don't see what people are complaining about....you are consumers in a free market and have a choice. If you like Ryanair, then fly them. If not then fly someone else. It is not like Ryanair shows up at your house with a shotgun and forces you to fly with them.

 

Same in my market. We have Air New Zealand, QANTAS, Virgin Australia, Pacific Blue and Jetstar.

 

Jetstar is our version of Ryanair and apparantely they are crap too, but I wouldn't know because as a consumer I choose Air New Zealand, Therefore I am happy trails with my traveling.

 

Cheers

Nothing was worse than flying Spirit once (never again) and not even having seats in the terminal to wait for boarding. It was nothing but empty space and carpet. So much for showing up early, lots of standing and sitting on the floor.

It was nothing but empty space and carpet.

 

:LMAO: :LMAO: :LMAO: :LMAO: :LMAO:

To be honest, the fact that there is a thread about this, and probably on many other website forums and facebook etc, is exactly why Michael O'Leary makes such announcements, and why journalists then report such things. I'm willing to bet that other airlines have issued similar edicts, but O'Leary has mastered the art of free publicity by yanking journalist's chains with press releases about stuff like this. In any case, why should an airline employ some lardass who adds to the MTOW when then could employ someone who does not? But that aside...

 

Ryanair come in for a lot of stick, yet that is and always has been part of O'Leary's marketing strategy, because he knows that it is better than actually paying for advertising when he wants the airline to appear as one which shakes things up in order to make flying cheaper. And it works: Of the years Ryanair has been in business, the first 15 of them were not profitable, but when O'Leary's tenure as boss commenced, they went from being an airline with two crappy old turboprops flying from Ireland to the UK and back, to being the seventh largest passenger carrier in the world, and a household name which is synonymous with saving money.

 

Thus their service is cheap and cheerful, but I've flown with them a couple of times, and I got what I paid for, which was a round trip from the UK to Finland on what is basically a bus with wings, for about a third of the price that SAS were charging for a ride on their bus with wings. If I wanted to dine on roast pheasant whilst doing so, I might have considered another more frills carrier, but like most people, I can survive without eating for three hours, unlike some of Ryanair's flight attendants, it would appear.

 

Al

One of O'Leary's strangest ideas which from time to time he resurrects is to have standing passengers. Of course that will never ever be allowed!

vololiberista

Yup, I can see it now: 'ladies and gentlemen, we've experienced a drop in cabin pressure and are commencing an emergency descent to 8,000 feet, please insert four Euros into the slot above your head to allow the oxygen mask to drop down, then place it securely over your nose and mouth. Insert two Euros to place your seat backs and tray tables in the upright position. Please familiarise yourself with the price list in your seat back pocket, we will shortly be offering a trolley service in the cabin, from which you can purchase life preservers, compressed air to inflate them, a whistle, emergency briefing cards, flotation devices, and tickets for a place in the liferafts...'

 

Al

Yup, I can see it now: 'ladies and gentlemen, we've experienced a drop in cabin pressure and are commencing an emergency descent to 8,000 feet, please insert four Euros into the slot above your head to allow the oxygen mask to drop down, then place it securely over your nose and mouth. Insert two Euros to place your seat backs and tray tables in the upright position. Please familiarise yourself with the price list in your seat back pocket, we will shortly be offering a trolley service in the cabin, from which you can purchase life preservers, compressed air to inflate them, a whistle, emergency briefing cards, flotation devices, and tickets for a place in the liferafts...'

 

Al

 

Now now, that's just silly. Trolleys are expensive and need pushed by someone, and having one stocked with emergency equipment when it could be full of overpriced sarnies and duty free just doesn't fit the Ryanair business model. Surely it'd be, "please take out the life preserver we made you buy when you checked in. If you have paid online for priority oxygen, you can now obtain it from the forward galley."

 

IIRC Ryanair actually have abandoned reclining seats. Tray tables are probably next. But yes, this is of course the O'Leary self-publicity machine at its best. Any day can be April Fool's Day: as well as standing passengers, there was a 'suggestion' of going to single-pilot ops for their 737s. The average punter, knowing nothing of human factors or the aircraft's complexity, probably saw someone challenging over-staffing in the interest of keeping prices down... "well you don't need two bus drivers, do you?" And the media - even the US media in this case - keep falling for it. In his own way the man is a genius. Not one I'd choose to give my money to, but a genius all the same.