Ryanair cancelled, what do i do?

gary the great

Ryanair just cancelled my return flight from Stockholm on the 31st of January 2006.

My hotel is non-refundable so i have to go or risk loosing 350euros, what the hell should I do?

Anyone got any ideas to help?
Any help appreciated

BuffyBot

Have you tried searching for flights with other airlines?

Our man in Havana

gary the great wrote:

Ryanair just cancelled my return flight from Stockholm on the 31st of January 2006.

My hotel is non-refundable so i have to go or risk loosing 350euros, what the hell should I do?

Anyone got any ideas to help?
Any help appreciated

Did they give any reason for cancelling? Do you have insurance?

rugbug86

try scandinavian airlines. i just searched for flights and got a flight from stockholm on the 31st.......

gary the great

was doing this on the real cheap seeing as it was a great offer, if it had of originally cost me a cent more i wouldnt of been able to afford it, but now that im screwed i dont know what to do.

I hadnt booked my insurance yet either.
Ryanair didnt give me a reason, this is totally unacceptable.
Tried Scandanavian Airlines and the flights are 121euros each, money i just dont have.

so i stand to loose 350 on the hotel or we pay 242 more for the flights home and go.

disaster. And just before xmas.

rugbug86

have you tried coming home the day before? or staying an extra night? one night in a cheap hostel wouldn't break the bank.

gary the great

ye have tried that, the next flight would be on the Saturday rather than the Tuesday and we all know how expensive Sweden is! So id never be able to stay them extra days!

rugbug86

gary the great wrote:

Ryanair just cancelled my return flight from Stockholm on the 31st of January 2006.

My hotel is non-refundable so i have to go or risk loosing 350euros, what the hell should I do?

Anyone got any ideas to help?
Any help appreciated

2006?? why so early? surely other airlines will have sales between now and then...

have you tried coming home the day before?

and sweeden may be expensive, but there's always hostels for sleeping, supermarkets for food, and walking around/window shopping is free...

or get a loan to pay for the SAS flights home.

not meaning to be bad but you're gonna end up losing money anyway, so you can either lose the 350 for the hotel and stay at home, or you can spend 250, go to sweeden, have a good holiday and worry about paying when you get home.

alternitivly, sell the hotel to someone else! and go somewhere cheaper yourself.

BuffyBot

Have Ryanair contacted you to say they are refunding the fare? They should be, as they've cancelled the flight - so you could offset the cost of the SAS flight against what you've paid for the Ryanair one.

Benedict XVI

gary the great wrote:

Ryanair didnt give me a reason, this is totally unacceptable.

Why is it unacceptable. Will Ryanair giving you a reason for the cancelation make your hotel give you back the €350?

BrianD

It's a pity you didn't book insurance at the time. Insurance is not a retrospective so there's not much point getting it now.

Do Ryanair have a flight the next day? Your budget won't stretch the extra €120?

masteroftherealm

Benedict XVI wrote:

Why is it unacceptable. Will Ryanair giving you a reason for the cancelation make your hotel give you back the €350?

Sorry you think its ok for an airline to not give an explination fot it??????

Benedict XVI

masteroftherealm wrote:

Sorry you think its ok for an airline to not give an explination fot it??????

They could give any explanation they want, it's not going to help the OP with there €350 non-refundable hotel room.

masteroftherealm

Benedict XVI wrote:

They could give any explanation they want, it's not going to help the OP with there €350 non-refundable hotel room.

Well that shows the level of passivity that now exists in irish society doesnt it.

ecodub

I also got an email from Ryanair this week notifying me of a change of departure time on a filght to London next January.

Again I got a good deal on the Ryanair flight, I think it was €4.99 + taxes but I wanted to connect with another flight in London later that day. I was lucky that I had allowed 5 hours between flights, because Ryanair have placed me on another flight leaving Dublin 2hours 10mins later.

They did give me the choice to accept the new flight time or claim a Travel Credit. None of this would be any use if I didn't have time to make the connecting flight.

I just wonder does Ryanair do this to others who get cheap seats on flights with big demands.

Bluetonic

rugbug86 wrote:

have a good holiday and worry about paying when you get home.

Is it any wonder people in this country are so heavily in debt.

I'm a carefree carebear.

BuffyBot

Sorry you think its ok for an airline to not give an explination fot it??????

What explanation can they give? The flight is cancelled. Happens all the time in the aviation world - the OP is lucky he got so much advance notice. The options are to rebook with another airline, abandon holiday or extend holiday.

The reason behind is secondary. But if you're interested, Ryanair are cancelling quite a few flights due to a strike at Boeing earlier this year which means the delivery of their new planes is behind schedule.

gary the great

The email they sent me didnt even have an apology on it, just offered me an alternative which was a flight home the day we get there:rolleyes:

There is no other ryanair flights within 5 days of our departure, and i have emailed the hotel to see if it would be possible to change the dates but no reply yet.
but i have checked something, I can fly to Luton from Stockholm, stay there the night and fly home to Dublin the next day. That is only 153euros, which between 2 of us is just about affordable.
I think thats the only option i have, just means we'll have to be a bit jewish over there.

foggy

As far as i know, most hotels have a 24hour cancellation policy. If you cancel 24 hours before you are due to arrive they will cancel your room at no charge. otherwise they normally charge for the first night. why not cancel going to sweden altogether and go somewhere else. Aerlingus from dublin and easyjet from belfast both haves sales at the minute.

lazygit

gary the great wrote:

and i have emailed the hotel to see if it would be possible to change the dates but no reply yet.

eh i have to ask.. but why dont you just pickup the phone and call them? ive never come across a sweed that could not speak fluent english... you will have your answer in 30 seconds instead of waiting a day or 2 for them to get back to you...

gary the great

I booked the hotel through hotels.com on a special offer, this was the condition:

"You have purchased a special, non-refundable room category at a reduced rate. You understand and agree that the rate is non-refundable, and that your reservation cannot be cancelled or changed for any reason. You are authorizing null to charge your credit card for the full amount stated above"

Ryanair have offered travel credits(Do these include any compensation?), which aernt issued for 7 days, in which the price of flights will probly increase. So i will just get a full refund and book the Luton flight.

lazygit

ring the hotel anyway and plead your case.. your giving them 40days notice.. id be suprised if you got refused..

Eurorunner

lazygit wrote:

ring the hotel anyway and plead your case.. your giving them 40days notice.. id be suprised if you got refused..

They would be a lousy outfit if they didnt help you out given so much advance notice. At worst, you could make an arrangement with them to change your booking to another time - and book another Ryanair. Ryanair should still have cheap flights in February for example...

the_syco

gary the great wrote:

Ryanair just cancelled my return flight from Stockholm on the 31st of January 2006.

My hotel is non-refundable so i have to go or risk loosing 350euros, what the hell should I do?

Anyone got any ideas to help?
Any help appreciated

From what I know...

Rynair ordered 4 planes from Boeing, which were meant to come this month, so they sold the planes, and the planes will retire/be sold by the end of this month. BUT, Boeing had a strike around September/October, thus all plane deliveries were delayed by a few months.

Seemingly, they're going to refund or give passengers a new date for the flight.