Ryanair Sale (Flights from 1p / €10)

Sully

Hey,
Ryanair have been harping on about a 1p sale on their website which apparently launches Tuesday. Now its VERY confusing because it looks like, yet the press release yesterday said it wont open until Tuesday. The site had an add up saying flights at 1p and the press release said the same, but looking at it now.. its changes to "from" €10 inclusive of charges etc.

See: http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/

joeswatch

Ryanair site is now up and running as of a few minutes ago. If you look at the small print in their sunday paper ad, they stated the 1p flights are available when you fly tue/wed. Other than that it's business as usual and you have to search to get the cheap flights. Their inclusive costs are correct as I checked some costs previous to the site going down and just checked them now and saw no change in total ..... unless someone spots a bug in their program.

Sully

Why dont they have small print on the website? And the booking system has been up a good few hours now.

See:: http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/news.php?yr=08&month=feb&story=pro-en-220208

http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/news.php?yr=08&month=feb&story=pro-en-240208

okidoki987

Anybody else think the new system is brutal compared to the old one?

Nunu

I presume the 1p flights will be online tomorrow because the ad said Tuesday didn't it?

joeswatch

It might be worth checking after midnight and see if they have any 1p promotional flights or in ryanair's case, they probably will start the sale at 4am.

walshki

joeswatch wrote: »

It might be worth checking after midnight and see if they have any 1p promotional flights or in ryanair's case, they probably will start the sale at 4am.

It was actually up first thing this morning. I haven't seen any special fares myself. However the new site isn't working very well yet - very slow. The changes look to be the ability to search flexibly (it shows one week at a time) and that when you click on a fare it shows the final price after taxes (presumably not including baggage options and credit card charges). Once its stable I think it'll be a big improvement.

andrew1977

The website has been back up since Sunday night, i booked sets of flights online sunday night at around 9pm, didnt spot any 1 cent flights but did get a couple of 0 cent flights coming back from Manchester to Dublin ,but taxes etc had to be paid .

rameire

the 1p flights start at midnight tonight

slave1

Jazus, it's dog slow, I timed out on a BB line.
The "find lowest fare" is gone, it's gonna be a bitch to find the cheap flights now

Dec4

Yesterday 22:30
rameire the 1p flights start at midnight tonight

What a sham...now starts at 12noon today...usual Ryanair ****.....

Aedh Baclamh

Does their luggage policy differ in any way to that of Aer Lingus?

shalom

****e...Stayed up to be told that... oh well win some lose some!!!!

Mossy Monk

Book from midday they say

jjbrien

Mossy Monk wrote: »

Book from midday they say

its on the site now but so far cant find anything for 1 cent

marrm

Aedh Baclamh wrote: »

Does their luggage policy differ in any way to that of Aer Lingus?

No same as Aer Lingus, you gotta pay.

Once thing that Aer Lingus charges for: advance seat selection, up to 20€ for the best seats. That's the only thing they invented themselves, everything else they copied from Micky O'Leary.

Just back this evening from my one-day 2c (including all charges & taxes & everything) trip to Glasgow. Nice city. Also went to Edinburgh.

I was hoing that the *NEW* Ryanair site would have inclusive fares: No such luck, same old cr*p with fares, plus taxes, plus charges. Credit Card fee is now 4€! :mad:

And the new sysytem is slooooow. And it insists on charging you for insurance even when you don't want it. Some improvement required!

BendiBus

marrm wrote: »

And it insists on charging you for insurance even when you don't want it.

Don't think so! Just had a look and you can select "No Insurance Required". There's even a message to that effect which surprises me, this being Ryanair!

Mossy Monk

jjbrien wrote: »

its on the site now but so far cant find anything for 1 cent

Because it is not midday. It is on the front page. Book From Midday.

walshki

This is the link to their new booking page where you can select flexible dates and where, when you select a fare it then shows the final charge (excluding bags, insurance, credit card charge, priority boarding etc - all those things Ryanair considers optional).
Link

Funny thing is that when you do a flexible fare search it only shows six days and then you have an option to go to next week or previous week and when you do it only shows the same six days for that week. In other words if you choose Wednesday but cllick on flexible fares it shows Monday to Saturday that week and if you click on next week it shows Monday to Saturday the next week etc - you never get to see Sunday unless you do a new search - seems a pretty basic error - sure I'm sure they'll fix it (or perhaps charge extra to see the full week).:)

johnfás

Good luck to anyone booking flights through the site anyway. Seems they brought it back up far too early in terms of it working adequately.

ch750536

^Agreed, their web****e has issues, I can't book a flight at all, never mind getting a bargain.

What clever sole decided to have an offer on the first day of the site being up?

Scunthorpe <- Testing the swear word filter.

Mossy Monk

Good God, looking at that site is like browsing with a dial up connection.

OnLooker

Same here. I eventually got to the flights I want & they were still €25.99 each way

Latchy

I booked to go over to Dublin in April .The actual rtn flight cost 1p each way .Add on all the additional costs tax insurence CC charge etc , and it worked out at £39.99 rtn .Mad hey ? :rolleyes:

Bluetonic

latchyco wrote: »

I booked to go over to Dublin in April .The actual rtn flight cost 1p each way .Add on all the additional costs tax insurence CC charge etc , and it worked out at £39.99 rtn .Mad hey ? :rolleyes:

No not really.

OnLooker

Can't seem to find the dates for this offer. Anyone have them?

johnfás

OnLooker wrote: »

Can't seem to find the dates for this offer. Anyone have them?

Doesn't appear to be implemented on their booking system yet. I'd imagine the whole thing has gone mad again and they won't go up until later on.

It is a complete farce to be honest. They shouldn't have relaunched their system until it was properly tested. There is an announcement on their website saying the system is all up but they are experiencing unprecedented demand. Well we book flights about every 10/12 days with them and I have never experienced their system acting in this manner before. It was acting like it is now at 7:00 am this morning so I think the demand element is an idle excuse more than anything.

jjbrien

i cant seem to get any flights at 1p i tried doing a wednesday to wednesday thursday to monday tuesday to tuesday nothing

eskimo

Ryanair.com AND their phone line are both driving me nuts!

The website is just not working properly at all since yesterday; whenever I do eventually get onto the booking page the prices are currently astronomical for some reason.

Since I'm trying to book using vouchers, I have to ring their phone line. They don't let you book with vouchers on their website. So I've tried ringing it 8 times in the past hour. 7 times it was engaged. The other time it just rang out until it cut me off.

eskimo

HOWEVER

People keep saying the luggage fee is mandatory - it's not. I'm booking a flight to Paris in June and it's totalling €20.00 - that's with online check-in, checking in no bags, no insurance, and no priority boarding; so all of which are not mandatory.

wba88

any1else have to pay handling fees??

Latchy

Bluetonic wrote: »

No not really.

It's still cheap ,it's the rtn flights for £5 / £10 in the papers that catches your eye .

Still a wee bit mad imo

wba88 wrote: »

any1else have to pay handling fees??

Think i paid £8 and i am not putting any baggage in the hold .

danindublin

Seems to be that this sale allows you to fly tues & wedsdays only and applies only to some UK destintations!!!! :mad:

wba88

Fares include taxes, fees & charges
Booking Periodue 26th Feb 08 - Thu 28th Feb 08 Travel Periodue 01st Apr 08 - Mon 30th Jun 08 Applicable Daysue & Wed only (Subject To Availability) Flight must be purchased:14 Days in advance Blackout Period:01 May - 06 May 08 all routes to/from UK & Ireland
08 May - 13 May all routes to/from Germany
22 May - 27 May 08 all routes to/from UK
29 May - 03 Jun 08 all routes to/from Ireland Notes on this farell Holidays, School Breaks and Major Sporting Events are excluded from this offer

walshki

eskimo wrote: »

HOWEVER

People keep saying the luggage fee is mandatory - it's not. I'm booking a flight to Paris in June and it's totalling €20.00 - that's with online check-in, checking in no bags, no insurance, and no priority boarding; so all of which are not mandatory.

Did you not have to pay a €4 credit card fee? It'd be great if they got rid of that.

johnfás

It's odd, they're actually giving me 1c flights on a Thursday and Saturday but not a Wednesday, contrary to their terms and conditions.

Edit: They seem to have fixed it now. Silly me should have booked a flight from Stansted to Dublin when they had the glitch and then booked Dublin to there after. Could have got it all free then but who was to know.

Latchy

walshki wrote: »

Did you not have to pay a €4 credit card fee? It'd be great if they got rid of that.

Travelling from liverpool I had to pay £3 each way rtn credit card fee - total £6.00

Padraig Mor

The site is ****ed. I'm a big Ryanair fan but this is taking the piss TBH.

fast1

I have been trying to book a flight since yesterday. 2 days and no luck. entered credit card details in and it went to process it but died. now I am trying to call them to make sure the payment didnt go through - you think I can get through?

the new website is crap - they should have tested it at least.

corcaigh07

cant find any freebies...

Rozbeef

has anyone noticed any difference whatsoever apart from the new piss-poor layout?

OnLooker

Yeah they are using ajax to load the prices when u select ur flight. Its real slow as well doing that.

ROVER

Enhancements for customers on the new Ryanair.com include:
· The additional processing power of the new system improves the website speed for customers, especially during peak booking periods.
· The Flight Change facility is now available up to 4 hours prior to departure at discounted rates.
· The online check-in period has been extended to 5 days before travel and customers can now check-in for both outbound and return flights at the same time.
· The Online Check-in system has been simplified and is now available in 8 languages.
· Priority Boarding, items of checked baggage, musical instrument and sports, equipment can be purchased online up to 4 hours prior to flight departure at discounted rates.
· Finding our lowest fares will now be easier with the Flexible Search function.
· Fares will display inclusive of taxes not just on the home page as is currently the case, but on the flight select page too.
· We have added a Manage My Booking section where customers can retrieve, review, change and add additional services to their booking at discounted rates.
· Improved website accessibility for vision impaired customers

jjbrien

€0.01 flight i found but heres the catch they charge you the card processing fee of €3 not as good as before :mad:

jjbrien

wba88 wrote: »

any1else have to pay handling fees??

yes me as well

eskimo

And why is there STILL nobody answering the phone line??? Monkey must be on his holidays.

Stupid line is only open peak hours too, monday to friday.

The_Hustler

Yeah, what is the story with them charging for credit cards, they didn't do that in any of their other 1c deals. It says fares include charges, this seems misleading.

Also, edinburgh is not listed on the main page or the availability pdf but when you click more destinations it says there are 1c flights there, but I haven't found any.
Flights to Friedrichshafen on a Tuesday or Wednesday are rare if ever.

The selection of destinations is much poorer than in the past, just like the website.

Sully

People, the website is going to be slow and there is very little Ryanair can do. Ryanair is a big site across Europe and they had a pretty big promotion for when it came back online. There is a VERY large number of people trying to use the site to get the 1p flights and the server the site is hosted on simply cant handle it. It happens every year with the CAO, and there is very little that can be done besides paying a fortune for a very high speed server which probably will still result in it being slow. The techs in Ryanair should have had the brains to realise that when the new system went back online there is going to be a huge increase in users in general, and even more to get the 1p offer. Therefore, the offers in general should have been spread out over a few weeks to ease the pressure on the server.

I heard someone say that the system is built by a group of students and I don't think they can be blamed for server issues. The website has always worked before and when the new system kicks in working with the usual pace of users it should be fine.

rubicon99

Well, the best way to test a new system is to do what Ryanair does now. Put up a big promotion and se the treshold and how much the new system can handle. After that they can make the neceserry adjustment. The downside is the we have to be their ginnypigs, and even if we are pisst off now, they know that we will keep coming back. That's the price we have to pay, for not have to pay such a hig price for our flights .

AdrianC

Sully wrote: »

I heard someone say that the system is built by a group of students

The System is designed by Navitaire, a subsidiary of Accenture. Their orginal website, before they could take online bookings was designed by two students, but since 2000 it has been using the systems of Navitaire/Accenture.

Padraig Mor

Site is still slow, but decidedly better than the last few days. What is different from before is the prices.

I'm constantly checking the Ryanair site to look for good deals from Cork and so am pretty familiar with their standard fares. It looks to me like their prices have jumped big time! Excluding the 1 cent and €10 special offers, the cheapest flights I can get for 2 to Stansted for a weekend are €170 in total - a lot more than before! This is without baggage and using online checkin etc. Maybe it's just me, but I reckon the fares were substantially cheaper before.

The credit card charge has now increased to €4 per person per sector, as have the airport checkin and priority boarding charges. A checked bag is now €9 per flight (€8 before I think), i.e. it will now cost you €26 to check a bag for a return flight!

Now, I love Ryanair as much as the next guy, but if they're gonna charge Aer Lingus prices, I'm gonna fly Aer Lingus!