Ryanair raising prices already for Estonia.

Pangea

Just checked the price of flight to Talinn for the day before the ireland match.
Its significantly higher than the other Thursdays of that month.
Just wondering are Ryanair allowed to up their prices because of the ireland match, is it against Consumer law or anything?

Mr Ed

There's nothing against the law on this as its purely supply and demand!

ArmaniJeanss

Pangea wrote: »

Just checked the price of flight to Talinn for the day before the ireland match.
Its significantly higher than the other Thursdays of that month.
Just wondering are Ryanair allowed to up their prices because of the ireland match, is it against Consumer law or anything?

Wha? Should they be forced to sell an entire flight at a loss-making price?

And I doubt they are increasing prices because of the match, they are increasing prices because their automated booking system saw a sudden surge in demand and the 'increase prices' function kicked in.

Pangea

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

Wha? Should they be forced to sell an entire flight at a loss-making price?

Well return flight is 401.77 EUR for the match.
Where as it 72.98 EUR Return flight for the week before.
Just seems sickening to be honest. Such a high increase really seems unfair.
I wouldn't mind 100 dearer but 400 euro for return is crazy.

Rojiblancos

I checked last night, worked out around €140 for a return flight on that date

ArmaniJeanss

Pangea wrote: »

Well return flight is 401.77 EUR for the match.
Where as it 72.98 EUR Return flight for the week before.
Just seems sickening to be honest. Such a high increase really seems unfair.
I wouldn't mind 100 dearer but 400 euro for return is crazy.

Its a gradual thing though, they didn't go straight from 73 to 400.
I checked about 3 minutes after the draw and €240 inc taxes was available, a few minutes later they were approaching €300. And now 400 as you say.
Its just their pricing system kicking in as people pay. If people stop paying this minute, and the system thinks its going to be stuck with 40 seats then the price could go back down.

dilallio

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/ryanair-fares-rocket-within-hours-of-euro-playoff-draw-2905952.html

RYANAIR has quadrupled the price of flights to the Estonian capital Tallinn, within hours of Ireland been drawn against Estonia in the Euro 2012 play-offs next month.
Flights to the do-or-die match on November 11 have rocketed from €72.98 to €278, following the draw at noon today.
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And outraged Fine Gael Deputy for Mayo, John O’Mahony, has slammed the move:
“Not for the first time, Ryanair is penalising Irish soccer supporters by increasing the cost of flights, in this case, to Estonia for next month’s European Championship play-off.
“Less than an hour since the draw was made to determine who will face who in the Championship match on the 11th November, Ryanair fares to the capital of Estonia, Talllin, have increased dramatically.
“I understand that Ryanair is running a commercial enterprise but it seems desperately unfair that a flight that could have been booked for around €70 this morning will now set supporters back the best part of €300.
“This is the biggest game for Ireland since we played France two years ago and Irish fans will be eager to attend to ensure the greatest possible level of support for the team. ‘’

Savman

Ryanair + money-making schemes = news?

Random

this is the same reason you can also get 9.99 flights to places some other weekends. it sucks but anyhow.

Stinicker

Spare the money for next summer lads!

AfterDusk

Just go through another airport! Short hop to the UK & on to Tallinn from there.

You'd pay just as much for a charter flight anyway.

Unshelved

Could you fly to Helsinki and take a ferry to Tallinn? We were on holidays in Tallinn a few years ago and took a day trip to Helsinki. There were ferries every hour or so and the journey took about 70 minutes. The Ferry port in Tallinn is withing walking distance of the city centre.

killbillvol2

dilallio wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/ryanair-fares-rocket-within-hours-of-euro-playoff-draw-2905952.html

A stupid, semi-literate, ill-informed article in the Indo. Shock horror!

Unshelved wrote: »

Could you fly to Helsinki and take a ferry to Tallinn? We were on holidays in Tallinn a few years ago and took a day trip to Helsinki. There were ferries every hour or so and the journey took about 70 minutes. The Ferry port in Tallinn is withing walking distance of the city centre.

You can even take a helicopter across.

There are plenty of creative ways to get there and I'm sure supporters have figured out most of them.

ardmacha

This thread and the Indo article are nonsense. Ryanair didn't change their fares at all. Yesterday morning there was a largely unbooked plane to Taillin with cheap fares available. At noon, people who were quick off the mark booked those cheap fares and so only more expensive fares were available as the plane filled up.

I'd say John O'Mahoney knows this perfectly well and is just playing to the gallery, not sure what the motive of the OP for this thread is.

undo

Just to name a few other options: You could fly via RIX (Air Baltic's hub) or via AMS (Estonian Air AMS-TLL is a CRJ900 NextGen, a fantastically smooth ride much nicer than medium-sized Airbuses and Boeings IMHO).

Pangea

ardmacha wrote: »

This thread and the Indo article are nonsense. Ryanair didn't change their fares at all. Yesterday morning there was a largely unbooked plane to Taillin with cheap fares available. At noon, people who were quick off the mark booked those cheap fares and so only more expensive fares were available as the plane filled up.

I'd say John O'Mahoney knows this perfectly well and is just playing to the gallery, not sure what the motive of the OP for this thread is.

Stop looking for a conspiracy, I made the thread because the flight jumped up by 320 euro! (This is the travel forum)
Which is sickening and I asked a question was it legal or not and the answer is it is legal, so question answered, now get off your high horse!
Also means I am not going over to the Match that way . Raising the prices by that much doesn't seem reasonable but thats business. You are very naive to say Ryanair didn't raise their prices because of the match.
It was illegal for accommodation places and b and bs to raise their prices for that womens golf tournament a few weeks back. Which is the same principle I am talking about.

IngazZagni

Pangea wrote: »

Stop looking for a conspiracy, I made the thread because the flight jumped up by 320 euro! Which is sickening. And I asked a question was it legal or not and the answer is it is legal, so question answered, now get off your high horse!
Also means I am not going over to the Match that way . Raising the prices by that much doesnt seem reasonable but thats business. You are very naive to say Ryanair didn't raise their prices on purpose.
It was illegal for accommodation places and b and bs to raise their prices for that womens golf tournament a few weeks back. Which is the same principle I am talking about.

Ryanair have also added flights on the Thursday and return on Saturday with potential for another to be added. They didn't have to do that but now more fans can travel because of these extra seats. There's also a really strange middle of the night flight but it's only a little cheaper than the rest.

Badgermonkey

Pangea wrote: »

Such a high increase really seems unfair.

Ever watch the Godfather?

It's nothing personal, it's just business.

finbarrk

Pangea wrote: »

Just checked the price of flight to Talinn for the day before the ireland match.
Its significantly higher than the other Thursdays of that month.
Just wondering are Ryanair allowed to up their prices because of the ireland match, is it against Consumer law or anything?

How many more times are similar threads going to pop up because someone was slow on the keyboard as the draw was done. What do you expect? Every seat for €30? Common sense would say that the price automatically increases as the seats get scarce. That happened in 10 mins on Thursday at around 12.20pm.
Be on the ball next time is the advice.