Ryanair Price Gouging - People trying to escape the Ukraine, hit by massive price hikes!

garrettod

https://www.newstalk.com/news/ukrainian-begs-ryanair-to-keep-prices-low-after-it-hiked-fare-for-her-fleeing-family-1317133?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1646161372-1

Disgraceful stuff - Ryanair hits a new low!

If anything, you'd think they'd put on some free fights, to try and help.

Uncle Pierre

If these were flights from the Ukraine, I might agree. But they're not. They're flights from Poland. And if people have managed to make it to Poland, then they've obviously already been able to get out of the Ukraine.

And must say too that even €147 doesn't seem particularly expensive for a journey of about 1,500 miles and about 2hrs 45mins of flying time.

I expect something happened here like the woman started the booking process when there were only three seats left at the lower price, and somebody else checked out with those seats while she was still trying to book them herself.

YFlyer

They want to come to Ireland for free accommodation.

Allinall

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118718357#Comment_118718357

How do you know this?

And what does it have to do with the thread topic?

JustJoe7240

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058235483/ryanair-price-gouging-people-trying-to-escape-the-ukraine-hit-by-massive-price-hikes

You realise how businesses work right? The "massive price hikes" which aren't that massive are indicative of how every airline operates; Seat is available for x, as time passes getting closer to departure and as people book tickets, price increases. Also flights are from Poland, Not the Ukraine.

Looks like another example of people only delighted to find a reason to be outraged about something.

YFlyer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118718366#Comment_118718366

Because Coveney suggested it.

Allinall

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118718405#Comment_118718405

You're obsessed.

Give it a rest.

zell12

Those flights are cheap at €147. It's simply supply and demand regardless of the situation.

Wizz have offered Ukrainian refugees 100,000 free seats in continental Europe departing from EU countries bordering UA.

YFlyer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118718411#Comment_118718411

Far from it. Explain?

Cyclingtourist

Newstalk click bait.

Jequ0n

Why on earth would you expect any business to operate for free? It’s not a charity.

Wanderer78

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118718471#Comment_118718471

they aint all that short of cash, they actually could easily afford to give many free seats to refugees, they have almost 4 billion on deposit!

YFlyer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118718471#Comment_118718471

Exactly.

Cyclingtourist

Newstalk could have offered to pay the €200 difference for the three tickets if they were that concerned.

brokenangel

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058235483/ryanair-price-gouging-people-trying-to-escape-the-ukraine-hit-by-massive-price-hikes

The Ryanair system is setup to automatically raise the price after a certain number of people take seats. This is automatic. They don't have hundred of people sitting each day changing the price of every flights. It is all done by AI. A huge influx of people buying flights will automatically mean the system will increase the price.

Plenty of things to get angry about but I would like to see you win an argument with an AI system :-)

Brian?

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118718405#Comment_118718405

Good for him. It’s the moral thing to do. Have you a problem with taking in refugees who are fleeing a war? I don’t.

YFlyer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118718649#Comment_118718649

Yes great for him. Will wait and see.

YFlyer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118718454#Comment_118718454

Was it not on any other news media?

Cyclingtourist

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118718685#Comment_118718685

It relates to someone who was phoning in to one of their radio programs so probably not.

Jequ0n

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118718573#Comment_118718573

The same could be said for any business or organisation. It’s not their responsibility to get involved.

Wanderer78

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118719270#Comment_118719270

its a moral and ethical duty, many businesses globally have been offering whatever they can

Cyclingtourist

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118719306#Comment_118719306

What businesses do in this regard isn't 'a moral or ethical duty' it's a matter of choice or public relations. If it was a matter of morality then why doesn't Newstalk cough up the €200 difference and give it to this woman? They're the ones pretending to be outraged.

end of the road

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118719429#Comment_118719429

perhapse ask news talk that question, as news talk would be best placed to give you the answer rather then random posters on a website.

growleaves

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118718573#Comment_118718573

Refugees from Ukraine don't need to flee Poland instantly so I don't see where there's any urgency to waive fees.

A refugee charity should fund it.

mikethecop

they are a low quality greedy self serving company but its hardly the last chopper out of Hanoi , these people have already escaped the Ukraine

Brucie Bonus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118719725#Comment_118719725

The EU should lay on free flights.

Jequ0n

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118719306#Comment_118719306

That’s their choice. Nobody is obliged to do anything just because some random person has decided that everyone needs to adhere to their personal definition of morality.

Cyclingtourist

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118719669#Comment_118719669

They're not random they're posters who are making this into a moral issue.

Strumms

147 euros is cheap for a 3 hour flight…

[Deleted User]

Sadly, there exists in Ireland a small cluster of flatheads who hate Ryanair so intensely and irrationally that if Mick O'Leary was to announce in the morning that he was providing free flights to Ireland from Poland, they'd complain that he wasn't throwing in a free meal and a bl0wjob.

Cyclingtourist

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118720346#Comment_118720346

Airfares are historically inexpensive although they will probably rise in the coming months but you're right it's cheap(ish). The implicit allegation in the OP is that there's some evil person/policy with Ryan Air pushing up prices to cash in on desperate travellers fleeing oppression, something apparently that's peculiar to RA. I suspect there's another agenda at play and this has little or nothing to do with the situation in Ukraine.