end of bikes on ryanair?

littleknown

just read an article about ryanair thinking about making people carry their own bags up to the plane and banning ski equipment as it takes up too much space which led me to think that this could also be applied to bikes?
i cant see them getting away with making people carry their own bags to the plane but i have always thought the charges for bringing bikes to be very low considering the size of them etc,
one more reason to go aerlingus

eggie

Ryanair are a disgrace, they'll be cutting back on pilots next and asking people to fly the fecking planes themselves.

Low cost my bollocks, they charge 40 euro for a boarding card these days, flew with them once and never again.

kenmc

Sooner ryanair goes to the wall the better it will be for everyone. I for one welcome the return of stress free, civilized air travel.

TinyExplosions

NOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooo

The best thing about Ryanair was the lack of a weight limit on sports equipment...

kenmc

TinyExplosions wrote: »

NOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooo

The best only good thing about Ryanair was the lack of a weight limit on sports equipment...

Fixed. Best implies that there are several good things. There are not.

niceonetom

kenmc wrote: »

Sooner ryanair goes to the wall the better it will be for everyone. I for one welcome the return of stress free, civilized air travel.

After the apocalypse there will only be cockroaches and Michael O'Leary. Ryanair will not die, at least not before every single one of its competitors die first.

TinyExplosions

kenmc wrote: »

Fixed. Best implies that there are several good things. There are not.

I think there are. Cheap flights are fine by me. I know everyone likes bashing ryanair, but I regularly fly to Bristol on them, and it's cheaper than getting a train to Cork. I'll put up with a lot of crap for fare that cheap. There are alternatives if folk want to use them!

kenmc

niceonetom wrote: »

After the apocalypse there will only be cockroaches and Michael O'Leary. Ryanair will not die, at least not before every single one of its competitors die first.

I know, but I live in hope. In fact I think after the apocalypse there will only be O'Leary. Reckon even the roaches will lose the will to live.

TinyExplosions wrote: »

I think there are. Cheap flights are fine by me. I know everyone likes bashing ryanair, but I regularly fly to Bristol on them, and it's cheaper than getting a train to Cork. I'll put up with a lot of crap for fare that cheap. There are alternatives if folk want to use them!

Most of the time Aer Lingus are not all that much more expenisive, if at all, and you generally get treated like a person, rather than livestock.

I'd personally rather pay a small bit more to
- not have to queue like cows going to market,
- get a small seat pocket to put my book into,
- get a magazine to read with some oftentimes useful advice on destinations, features etc,
- not have to look at the garish decor,
- not have to listen to the bloody recorded "fanfair" if they land without crashing
- not have to worry about whether or not I'll be able to print out my boarding card coming home so I don't have to pay €40 for the 'privilege'
- not have to walk a million miles down the far end of the airport through the portacabins (which I know are now gone but it's still a LONG way down to the ryanair departure gates)
- not have to fly back from a deserted WW1 hanger in the middle of bog-arse nowhere with no public transport, food or facilities.

Yeah fair enough on paper ryanair may seem to be cheaper, but if you factor in all the other things like time and cost of getting to/from remote airports etc then I reckon you save little.
/rant/

TinyExplosions

kenmc wrote: »

Yeah fair enough on paper ryanair may seem to be cheaper, but if you factor in all the other things like time and cost of getting to/from remote airports etc then I reckon you save little.
/rant/

And that's why I'll only fly with them to certain places -like Grenoble and Bristol to name two

It's a fair point though, maybe I'm just used to slumming it

blorg

kenmc wrote: »

Sooner ryanair goes to the wall the better it will be for everyone. I for one welcome the return of stress free, civilized air travel.

...at 3x or 4x the price? Some of you yung'uns may not remember how expensive it was to fly before they arrived I remember my first visit to London- overnight ferry and train, with a 2am change in Crewe. 10 hours of my life I am not getting back. Flights to Spain (and Madrid was the only option, followed by expensive and stressful bike on train up to the north) were €4-500 each way (£3-400) on my first Camino, and that was only because I got a discounted student ticket! Most recent one was under €100 each way, flying direct to the start and the end...

Ryanair say a lot of things, many of which don't turn out to be true. Hopefully the bike thing turns out to be one of them- they have an extensive European route network and I have flown hassle-free with a bike with them several times. They fly during the winter to a lot of ski resorts so it is hard to see how a decision to ban ski equipment could be good business for them. Skis must be a lot more common than bikes.

I think they push it too far sometimes but they have revolutionised air travel in Europe, without them you would have only a handful of destinations at exorbitant prices to have the luxury of taking your bike to.

penexpers

kenmc wrote: »

Most of the time Aer Lingus are not all that much more expenisive, if at all, and you generally get treated like a person, rather than livestock.

And before Ryanair came a long, Aer Lingus charged what they liked. You don't have to like Ryanair but you have to admire them for helping to push the cost of air travel down.

I'd personally rather pay a small bit more to
- not have to walk a million miles down the far end of the airport through the portacabins (which I know are now gone but it's still a LONG way down to the ryanair departure gates)

Aer Lingus were using those portacabins as well. And I am fairly sure they are using the A and D gates which are the further departure gates away from security.

Yeah fair enough on paper ryanair may seem to be cheaper, but if you factor in all the other things like time and cost of getting to/from remote airports etc then I reckon you save little.

I would agree with this (I don't fly Ryanair anymore) but Aer Lingus used to be much more expensive than Ryanair.