Ryanair WTF

old_aussie

Ya gotta luv Ryanair.

Ryanair should be stood down from flying

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/503891/double-leg-amputee-crawled-Ryanair-flght

limericklad87

Awaiting the expected..... ' they haven't a leg to stand on"

aaronjumper

Madness . . . if it's true.

I guess we'll have to wait and see if this story gets legs.

Miss Demeanour

limericklad87 wrote: »

Awaiting the expected..... ' they haven't hit a leg to stand on"

Eh......not awaiting anymore!?

limericklad87

Hope he got a standing ovation on board just to spite them

StupidLikeAFox

"RYANAIR TELL DISABLED PASSENGER TO JOG ON"

diomed

Thread: In a hundred years what will we look back on as our greatest shame?
Ryanair

tomwaterford

Ryanair treat passenger like second class citizen





Wait a minute...

MarkAnthony

old_aussie wrote: »

Ya gotta luv Ryanair.

Ryanair should be stood down from flying

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/503891/double-leg-amputee-crawled-Ryanair-flght

Terrible puns even in the OP! Shame on you. :pac:

kneemos

Wouldn't believe half of it.

limericklad87

Sure if they tried to charge Ryanair with something knowing them they'd probably walk away Scot free

Valetta

All they want is bums on seats.

MarkAnthony

While if this story is true it's pretty ****ty why is it as soon as someone is flying they think of this:

Flying these days, especially short hop is no more glamorous (or expensive in somecases) than taking a bus - why should RyanAir et al put on airs and graces. Get on the fecking plane, sit down shut up and get off the fecking plane. Preferably without inconveniencing everyone around you because of your fat arse/ugly kids/idiot partner.

Ruu

'stood down from flying', can you not do any better than that with the amount of material available?:pac:

aaronjumper

He really went out on a limb flying with Ryanair.

donvito99

Ryanair is one of the greatest people movers of all time. A **** stain of an article on the loo roll that is the Star isn't going to stop over a hundred million people -- the vast majority of whom can't get over things like family fares for under 500 quid (return) to Spain -- from flying with them every year.

limericklad87

Hope it didn't ruin his holiday anyway and still had a right knees up

SEPT 23 1989

Thanks Michael for staying in the state and paying every last cent to the taxman like a true patriot

kneemos

First holiday since last summer...

Fred Swanson

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kylith

After they made a man carry his handicapped wife up the stairs to the plane I'm not surprised, really. ISTR hearing that they left an elderly handicapped man on the plane a couple of years ago too.

I hate flying Ryanair, and that they're the only affordable option for a lot of places.

recylingbin

Didn't click it as it was the daily star but the simple reality is thatvyouncan either fly ryanair , know what you're getting or fly some other company. No, matter what the article is about, that's my opinion.
What is the article about?

dinorebel

Well this is a step back for Ryanair

rubadub

The 38-year-old says they told him to drag himself down two ramps, across tarmac and up the steps of the plane.

Yeah, sure they did...

Fulltimer

He looks like an ape, a real knuckle dragger.

FalconGirl

As much as I have great respect for Ryanair this takes the low cost ethos over the line tbh. Very dissapointing. Staff should have a small bit more cop on.

Otherwise they're an absolutely fantastic airline.

Steve The Barman

what a load of sh*te, crawled on the tarmac.... he did in his hole

It sounds a bit far fetched, in that it sounds hard to believe any group of staff would be so desensitised as to tell an amputee to drag himself down ramps and across tarmac.

Tipsy McSwagger

If this was true then the other passengers would have caused uproar, I don't believe a single word of this story.

DEFTLEFTHAND

The only time I was ever genuinely frightened on an aeroplane was on a RyanAir flight into an ex Luftwaffe Base 80 miles south of Frankfurt.

There was a storm and the plane was being trashed around on approach, to the extent that the luggage compartments were rattling.

The pilots pulled up on the first two approaches, We were really close to the runway but not stable. The engines would then roar and we would lift off again to circle around.

On the third attempt they came in at speed, hit hard and got the plane grounded. Great work from the pilots to prevent a potential diversion.

It was only later that I learned that Ryanair pilots are under pressure to get aircraft down in dodgy weather. Diversions can impact on pilots pay packets.

Minderbinder

The airline should take legal action if any part of the story is not true.

murpho999

I'm just amazed that people here look at The Star's UK website and then just believe everything that is on it.

Ryanair always gets bashed whilst airlines that ripped people off for decades are seen as fine.

keeponhurling

Who will foot the bill for this?

Annasopra

MarkAnthony wrote: »

While if this story is true it's pretty ****ty why is it as soon as someone is flying they think of this:

Flying these days, especially short hop is no more glamorous (or expensive in somecases) than taking a bus - why should RyanAir et al put on airs and graces. Get on the fecking plane, sit down shut up and get off the fecking plane. Preferably without inconveniencing everyone around you because of your fat arse/ugly kids/idiot partner.

Fair enough but asking someone to crawl and then lifting them out on a bloody stretcher ffs

theteal

I'm starting to think I'm doing something wrong. I've been on 100+ flights (80-90% Ryanair) in the last 10 years and not a single issue comes to mind - apart from some painful hangovers!

Richard Hillman

Did he turn up at the airport without his wheelchair? How come that suddenly went missing?

maudgonner

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Did he turn up at the airport without his wheelchair? How come that suddenly went missing?

AFAIK you're not allowed to bring your own wheelchair on a plane for security reasons. It goes through screening as luggage and gets put in the cargo hold. That's why you'll often see airport wheelchairs on the jetways as you board.

andekwarhola

In before we had to pay 215k each way to fly to London in the 80s and Michael O'Leary should be Taoiseach.

Humour Me

I'm sorry but this whole story sounds like he is trying to make a claim against Ryanair.

Airlines are not responsible for transporting disabled passengers onto planes. Every airport has a passenger assistance operation in place which assists passengers for ALL airlines. Anyone who has traveled through Dublin airport would have seen the OCS transportation and staff who assist.

When you book your flight you are supposed to include details of the types of assistance required. Ryanairs website gives various options based on an individual's needs. The airline then feeds this information to the local passenger assistance who arrange transportation onto the flight based on the individuals needs.

What may have happened here is that there was a miscommunication and his assistance was missed or was running late, but putting the full blame on Ryanair is wrong.

Humour Me

maudgonner wrote: »

AFAIK you're not allowed to bring your own wheelchair on a plane for security reasons. It goes through screening as luggage and gets put in the cargo hold. That's why you'll often see airport wheelchairs on the jetways as you board.

No issues with bringing your own wheelchair through security all the way to the boarding gate. Once the plane starts boarding, the person in the wheelchair moves to a aisle chair, which is a narrow wheelchair that can move up the plane aisle. Their own wheelchair is then stowed with the rest of the luggage.

The wheelchairs at the gates are usually used by individuals who would find the distances between the gate and arrivals difficult or tiring.

ted1

Story sounds like rubbish, it's the ground crew at the airport not Ryanair at fault .

I broke my leg in Greece some years back and was being flown home by the insurance company. We landed in T1 in Heatrow and were then going from T5 to Dublin. I was taking off the plane in a wheelchair and taken to the gate of T5 then told to get out of the chair , when I said WTF, I was told that a different company had the contract for T5 and he couldn't take me further and he needed the chair back. He literally wanted to leave me sitting in the floor till someone else turned up.

My misses lost the rag and he waited 25 minutes till the next chap turned up with a diffetent chair

ED E

How about we ban the likes of the Star from AH posts? Would cull so much of this tripe.

RobertKK

That disabled guy is trying to pull our legs with that story.

He said he is still getting use to people looking at him, so what do you do? Go on a national paper and look for attention with plenty of photos.

Don't believe the story one bit.

the groutch

Humour Me wrote: »

I'm sorry but this whole story sounds like he is trying to make a claim against Ryanair.

Airlines are not responsible for transporting disabled passengers onto planes. Every airport has a passenger assistance operation in place which assists passengers for ALL airlines. Anyone who has traveled through Dublin airport would have seen the OCS transportation and staff who assist.

When you book your flight you are supposed to include details of the types of assistance required. Ryanairs website gives various options based on an individual's needs. The airline then feeds this information to the local passenger assistance who arrange transportation onto the flight based on the individuals needs.

ah here, don't be letting facts get in the way of a rag paper's clickbait article.

keith16

old_aussie wrote: »

Ryanair should be stood down from flying

LOL

Riva10

On the one hand people with disabilities want to be treated as ordinary people and when they are treated as such, they crib and hope they get a freebie. You are damned if you do and damned if you do'nt.

rubadub

Searched his name to see if the story is in other papers. Found a facebook page posting the story, user name "Matthew Parkes Prosthetics Fund"

Has a fund me site

£11,581 of £35k
Raised by 326 people in 6 months

Makes more sense to me now.

Capt'n Midnight

maudgonner wrote: »

AFAIK you're not allowed to bring your own wheelchair on a plane for security reasons.

We've all seen Alien Resurrection so we know how that ends.

maudgonner

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

We've all seen Alien Resurrection so we know how that ends.

No we all haven't! Spoiler alert please

Realt Dearg Sec

This has "looking for a quick settlement to keep us shtum" written all over it. His story stinks to high heaven and doesn't make a lick of sense.

maudgonner

You say: 'Ryanair WTF'.

I say: 'Ryanair FTW'.