Disgraceful stuff - Ryanair hits a new low!
If anything, you'd think they'd put on some free fights, to try and help.
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.
They want to come to Ireland for free accommodation.
How do you know this?
And what does it have to do with the thread topic?
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.
Because Coveney suggested it.
You're obsessed.
Give it a rest.
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.
Far from it. Explain?
Newstalk click bait.
Why on earth would you expect any business to operate for free? It’s not a charity.
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!
Exactly.
Newstalk could have offered to pay the €200 difference for the three tickets if they were that concerned.
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 :-)
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.
Yes great for him. Will wait and see.
Was it not on any other news media?
It relates to someone who was phoning in to one of their radio programs so probably not.
The same could be said for any business or organisation. It’s not their responsibility to get involved.
its a moral and ethical duty, many businesses globally have been offering whatever they can
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.
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.
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.
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
The EU should lay on free flights.
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.
They're not random they're posters who are making this into a moral issue.
147 euros is cheap for a 3 hour flight…
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.
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.
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