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Want to buy a Ryanair ticket .website says flight is full

  • 10-08-2019 3:09pm
    #1
    rugbyman
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    Hello, I want to fly home from Luxembourg or Belgium tomorrow.all flights are fully booked.i am a seasoned Ryanair flier and have been in this situation before.it used be that 40mins before takeoff, the staff could see if no one had booked in and could sell me a ticket.perhaps now with tickets on phones, all they know is who is in the airport(i.e.scanned their ticket).i still think the 40minute before is the time they can sell me a ticket. Can anyone confirm this. I have spent an hour on web chat, to no avail.i am in France none of the help loadnes ring from an Irish phone and my wife, at home, cannot get a reply either. Anybody?


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  • #2
    sasta le
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,586 ✭✭✭sasta le


    Flight is booked out I’d say


  • #3
    TheChizler
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    sasta le wrote: »
    Flight is booked out I’d say
    I think they're wondering how to get on standby for a booked out flight.

    I don't think there's much you can do apart from turning up at the airport before the flight and talking to them at the ticket desk.


  • #4
    rugbyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,783 ✭✭✭rugbyman


    sasta le wrote: »
    Flight is booked out I’d say

    Yes, I said that....question is..
    .if not all passengers turn up....can I get on


  • #5
    L1011
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    Airport agent should be able to sell you standby but it's not guaranteed therell be an agent to begin with - let alone any stand seats

    Look at alternatives if under time pressure

    The technology to know who has scanned their ticket at security well predates phones and is not entirely accurate anyway. If I misses a flight after security and bought a new ticket it would never be scanned. Ditto self transfers


  • #6
    rugbyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,783 ✭✭✭rugbyman


    L1011 wrote: »
    Airport agent should be able to sell you standby but it's not guaranteed therell be an agent to begin with - let alone any stand seats

    Look at alternatives if under time pressure

    Thank you L1011. Their flight would give me half a day extra at home.....however there is a Luxair.... Thanks


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  • #7
    L1011
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    rugbyman wrote: »
    Thank you L1011. Their flight would give me half a day extra at home.....however there is a Luxair.... Thanks

    In that specific circumstance turning up and asking is probably worthwhile. But I'd want the Luxair ticket booked on a refundable fare!


  • #8
    Bikerman2019
    Closed Accounts Posts: 992 ✭✭✭Bikerman2019


    My buddy went to the airport for a full flight. They told him it is normal for SOMEONE not to turn up so just wait.


    They were correct. Ryanair got him on.


  • #9
    rugbyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,783 ✭✭✭rugbyman


    Bikerman2019 wrote: »
    My buddy went to the airport for a full flight. They told him it is normal for SOMEONE not to turn up so just wait.


    They were correct. Ryanair got him on.

    I reckon so, has worked for me, but it used be 260euro ish, perhaps now dearer.


  • #10
    rugbyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,783 ✭✭✭rugbyman


    L1011 wrote: »
    In that specific circumstance turning up and asking is probably worthwhile. But I'd want the Luxair ticket booked on a refundable fare!

    Was thinking of just booking Luxair at ten a.m. after NOT getting on Transit, but chancy.think I will relax, and book Lux


  • #11
    sasta le
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,586 ✭✭✭sasta le


    Is it an emergency?Would travel insurance cover costs


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  • #12
    killbillvol2
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    sasta le wrote: »
    Is it an emergency?Would travel insurance cover costs

    How would travel insurance cover the cost of a flight you didn't book???


  • #13
    Van.Bosch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,969 ✭✭✭Van.Bosch


    killbillvol2 wrote: »
    How would travel insurance cover the cost of a flight you didn't book???

    If because of an unexpected event, you were not able to utilise your original method of travel but had to book a different option such as a flight.


  • #14
    Phileas Frog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 946 ✭✭✭Phileas Frog


    Van.Bosch wrote: »
    If because of an unexpected event, you were not able to utilise your original method of travel but had to book a different option such as a flight.

    But there is no original method???


  • #15
    Van.Bosch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,969 ✭✭✭Van.Bosch


    Phileas Frog wrote: »
    But there is no original method???

    Well if true then okay but the OP doesn’t say so, hence why I speculated. But I agree, if this is a first effort to travel then insurance won’t come into it.


  • #16
    callaway92
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    rugbyman wrote: »
    I reckon so, has worked for me, but it used be 260euro ish, perhaps now dearer.

    Kinda off-topic, but why would it be so dear when they're actually gonna be making extra money on-top of the original fare that didn't turn-up?


  • #17
    Peregrinus
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    callaway92 wrote: »
    Kinda off-topic, but why would it be so dear when they're actually gonna be making extra money on-top of the original fare that didn't turn-up?
    Because they know that people who go to the airport for a fully-booked flight on the off-chance that a space will open up are highly motivated and will pay a good deal to fly.

    Airlines don't want to price their tickets at what it costs them to provide the flight; if they did all tickets would be the same price. They want to price each ticket at the highest amount that the traveller buying it is willing to pay - hence the bewildering variety of ticket classes with various conditions and restrictions sold at very different prices.


  • #18
    TheChizler
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    I had a fried who used to work for Aer Lingus who did something similar. The cost of putting on the flight will be paid for once there are a certain number of bookings, so any new passengers over that are pure profit (after fuel and airport fees) so they can afford to jack up the price.


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