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Ireland west Aiport flights to Paris/Milan/Franfurt 18 Euro return April

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,879 ✭✭✭signostic


    adamski8 wrote: »
    why isnt it part of the airline fare though?
    say a family of four turns up, €40 to pay seemily out of the blue is a hassle. never heard of it done before, id have no problem paying it as long as i knew about beforehand
    Afaik the airlines wont added to their fares but on the Knock Airport website - http://www.irelandwestairport.com/
    Down on the right side of the page "Important Notice" in flashing text


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,503 ✭✭✭adamski8


    took me a while to see that and i was looking for it, looked like an advert at the start!
    im sure about zero percent of tourists check out the airports website they are flying in and out of. i can imagine it causing a lot of confusion for these new tourists these routes will attract. reminds me of that simpsons episode where the added all sorts of crazy taxes, not nice for people at the end of their vacation to turn up and see they have to pay more money after the high prices of ireland to leave it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 338 ✭✭snowdaze


    adamski8 wrote: »
    why isnt it part of the airline fare though?
    say a family of four turns up, €40 to pay seemily out of the blue is a hassle. never heard of it done before, id have no problem paying it as long as i knew about beforehand

    it's a small price to pay - worth every penny!

    We can be surprised by many things when we travel through an airport for the first time....price of parking....price of restaurant etc etc



    There is a similar charge at Riga airport....I had to pay 4 Lats ...that was only for Ryanair passengers...yes, it was worth it too:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,503 ✭✭✭adamski8


    snowdaze wrote: »
    it's a small price to pay - worth every penny!

    We can be surprised by many things when we travel through an airport for the first time....price of parking....price of restaurant etc etc



    There is a similar charge at Riga airport....I had to pay 4 Lats ...that was only for Ryanair passengers...yes, it was worth it too:)
    what about tourists, which is the supposed great advantages of these new routes right?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,638 ✭✭✭moodrater


    If you don't want to pay the €10 charge you could always dig up Father Horan and get him to run a few dances.


  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 120 ✭✭ludermor


    campo wrote: »
    No I dont expect to go to Milan for free if I did I would look up the freebie thread, I can WELL afford to pay for food, drink and great hotels my point being was that if you think you are getting a bargain by getting a Ryanair flight for 11e then you would be very much wrong as you have to factor in all the extra like parking, airport charges , admin charges and that is even before you have to pay to get from Airport to Milan which is also a nice distance away I was only trying to help people who are a bit low on cash and thought this would be a nice CHEAP holiday away and to point out it is not as CHEAP as you might think.


    oh and I never said I was not going I still booked it but before people should go about spouting Bargain which only entices people to take up these offers then all other factors should be added in thats all im saying
    You might as well start listing the rent/mortgage you are wasting by not living in your house while you are gone as well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,366 ✭✭✭campo


    ludermor wrote: »
    You might as well start listing the rent/mortgage you are wasting by not living in your house while you are gone as well.


    I am being realistic there is plenty of people out there who just see the headline figure of 15e flight and they go ahead and book it ( not noticing the sneaky way Ryanair add the admin charge ) they get to airport and have to pay 10e each to fly out they get to a Airport that is 45km from Milan and have to pay for fair to get into Milan and then come home and pay 35e to get their car out of car park, I understand you and other posters might already know all these facts but there is still plenty of people out there who only see the 15e flight charge and thats what keeps companies like Ryanair in buisness


  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 120 ✭✭ludermor


    OK , forgetting about the 35 quid for parking the total price for a return price to Milan works out at £72 , if you cant see that this is a bargain ( which is the forum this thread is in) then i give up. You would nearly pay that for a train from Westport to Dublin FFS.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,366 ✭✭✭campo


    ludermor wrote: »
    OK , forgetting about the 35 quid for parking the total price for a return price to Milan works out at £72 , if you cant see that this is a bargain ( which is the forum this thread is in) then i give up. You would nearly pay that for a train from Westport to Dublin FFS.


    Dont get me wrong its a good price and I would even say a bargain I would just hate to see anyone get suckered in the headline figure of 15e

    Case in point in my younger days I flew over to " Brussells " with Ryanair with what I thought was a cheap flight ( started at 11e then admin charges brought it 43e ) so I get to "Brussels" go into a cab and ask him to take me to my hotel....30 minutes later I am paying 180e to a cab driver , fair enough I made plenty of mistakes I should have looked up where the airport was , I should have asked the cab driver how much to hotel etc but I was young and it was my 1st trip away and I would hate to see some other young person and older couple get caught in same way by just going with the headline figure of 15e


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,606 ✭✭✭schemingbohemia


    campo wrote: »
    Dont get me wrong its a good price and I would even say a bargain I would just hate to see anyone get suckered in the headline figure of 15e

    Case in point in my younger days I flew over to " Brussells " with Ryanair with what I thought was a cheap flight ( started at 11e then admin charges brought it 43e ) so I get to "Brussels" go into a cab and ask him to take me to my hotel....30 minutes later I am paying 180e to a cab driver , fair enough I made plenty of mistakes I should have looked up where the airport was , I should have asked the cab driver how much to hotel etc but I was young and it was my 1st trip away and I would hate to see some other young person and older couple get caught in same way by just going with the headline figure of 15e

    Thankfully not everyone is as stupid as you were then. If people fail to read the conditions, fail to do any sort of research then they deserve what happens to them, it's financial darwinism.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,366 ✭✭✭campo


    Thankfully not everyone is as stupid as you were then. If people fail to read the conditions, fail to do any sort of research then they deserve what happens to them, it's financial darwinism.

    MODS is it acceptable to call someone STUPID in this forum, especially someone who is only trying to help people from making same mistakes I have in the past

    @Schemingbohemia no need for personal insults


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,606 ✭✭✭schemingbohemia


    Are you saying that what you did then wasn't stupid? I would have to disagree.

    Perhaps I should amend my statement to "Not everyone will act as stupidly as you did back then".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,366 ✭✭✭campo


    Are you saying that what you did then wasn't stupid? I would have to disagree.

    Perhaps I should amend my statement to "Not everyone will act as stupidly as you did back then".


    Yes I would say what I did was not stupid it was naive of me alright but im sure I was not the first and wont be the last

    But we are taking this totally of thread


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,208 ✭✭✭keithclancy


    campo wrote: »
    I am being realistic there is plenty of people out there who just see the headline figure of 15e flight and they go ahead and book it ( not noticing the sneaky way Ryanair add the admin charge ) they get to airport and have to pay 10e each to fly out they get to a Airport that is 45km from Milan and have to pay for fair to get into Milan and then come home and pay 35e to get their car out of car park, I understand you and other posters might already know all these facts but there is still plenty of people out there who only see the 15e flight charge and thats what keeps companies like Ryanair in buisness

    We don't pay a CC charge because the Missus has a moneybookers Mastercard Debit card.

    Airport development fee is the Airports problem, its the same if you fly from Norwich for example.

    Airport parking is normal, when we fly from Amsterdam we get the long term parking as it would cost that much to get there and back by train anyway including fuel.

    Nothing specific to Ryanair really, even if you fly with KLM to Norwich you have to pay the fee.

    So basically your complaining about

    - A fee you can avoid.
    - An Airport fee thats nothing to do with Ryanair.
    - The cost of parking at the Airport which is something you'd have to pay anyway, again nothing to do with Ryanair.
    Case in point in my younger days I flew over to " Brussells " with Ryanair with what I thought was a cheap flight ( started at 11e then admin charges brought it 43e ) so I get to "Brussels" go into a cab and ask him to take me to my hotel....30 minutes later I am paying 180e to a cab driver , fair enough I made plenty of mistakes I should have looked up where the airport was , I should have asked the cab driver how much to hotel etc but I was young and it was my 1st trip away and I would hate to see some other young person and older couple get caught in same way by just going with the headline figure of 15e

    Must have been some Taxi, its an hour drive to Brussels, expensive lesson but you'll know for future reference.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭kn


    campo wrote: »
    Dont get me wrong its a good price and I would even say a bargain I would just hate to see anyone get suckered in the headline figure of 15e

    Case in point in my younger days I flew over to " Brussells " with Ryanair with what I thought was a cheap flight ( started at 11e then admin charges brought it 43e ) so I get to "Brussels" go into a cab and ask him to take me to my hotel....30 minutes later I am paying 180e to a cab driver , fair enough I made plenty of mistakes I should have looked up where the airport was , I should have asked the cab driver how much to hotel etc but I was young and it was my 1st trip away and I would hate to see some other young person and older couple get caught in same way by just going with the headline figure of 15e

    I just cannot believe you landed at Charleoi and reckoned that was the main Brussels Airport. No way.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,208 ✭✭✭keithclancy


    kn wrote: »
    I just cannot believe you landed at Charleoi and reckoned that was the main Brussels Airport. No way.

    In fairness everyone assumes I live in Amsterdam when I say I live in The Netherlands and everyone here assumes I'm from Dublin when I say I'm from Ireland :D

    But yeh, I can't believe anyone would just turn up someplace without checking first !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,366 ✭✭✭campo


    kn wrote: »
    I just cannot believe you landed at Charleoi and reckoned that was the main Brussels Airport. No way.


    It was my 2nd time on a plane so when I booked a flight to Brussels silly me actually thought I was going to Brussels , lesson learnt the hard way


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,503 ✭✭✭adamski8


    kn wrote: »
    I just cannot believe you landed at Charleoi and reckoned that was the main Brussels Airport. No way.
    not everyone is so travel savy!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,413 ✭✭✭Stab*City


    Just booked flights to Beauvais there for 2 adults n 2 kids. 48 euro admin fee. Annoying since I only topped up my pre pay MasterCard by the quoted amount for the flights as last time was no admin on the pre pays so had to go back up and top up again. Still €350 cheaper than same dates outta Dublin. The thing that pisses me off most about all this is not the varying prices and hidden charges but the fact that I live 20 mins from a perfectly good airport that flys nowhere!! What's travel time from limerick to irl west airport car park? Early morning.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,634 ✭✭✭jenno86


    Stab*City wrote: »
    Just booked flights to Beauvais there for 2 adults n 2 kids. 48 euro admin fee. Annoying since I only topped up my pre pay MasterCard by the quoted amount for the flights as last time was no admin on the pre pays so had to go back up and top up again. Still €350 cheaper than same dates outta Dublin. The thing that pisses me off most about all this is not the varying prices and hidden charges but the fact that I live 20 mins from a perfectly good airport that flys nowhere!! What's travel time from limerick to irl west airport car park? Early morning.

    About 2 hours id say.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 214 ✭✭bensweeney


    Are you saying that what you did then wasn't stupid? I would have to disagree.

    Perhaps I should amend my statement to "Not everyone will act as stupidly as you did back then".


    Well by the looks of it you were very stupid.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    This 'development fee' is bizarre, I had to pay it the last time I flew out of Knock. I wouldn't have minded if it had been flagged anywhere beforehand but it was never mentioned on any of the ticketing or flight details. It's literally a lad sitting at a folding table beside the passport control demanding a tenner off everyone that walks by.

    Thats how the airport funds itself, by a passenger levy. The taxpayers fund Shannon Dublin and Cork.

    I'd prefer if passengers funded all airports instead of the taxpayer. The taxpayer gives 8 million a year to Shannon just to keep it open and it has over 100 million in debt. Knock funds itself.

    D'ont expect alot there, it provides cheap flights by keeping costs and services low.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    BluE-WinG wrote: »
    This all sounds good, but the big question is, how much cheaper is the parking in Knock Airport compared to Dublin airports parking charges? EDIT: And how much time do you need to allocate to being there in advance for your flight?

    It is one of the quickest airports i've ever gone through. Had a flight to Bristol last week at 2.30pm, Left work in castlebar at 1.30. In airport at 1.55, through security at 2pm and boarding at 2.15pm. Its almost like a bus terminal:D:D


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    campo wrote: »
    Was going to book flights to Milan came to 28e return
    Until I came to payment and when I wanted to pay by Visa 24e was added to final charge, add 10e for airport charge and 35e for 4 days parking you are now looking at 107e to fly there and back still a good price but not what I would call a bargain

    You should be using the moneybookers credit card to avoid the 24e visa fee.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    OldRio wrote: »
    Deary me.
    The Airport is a joy compared to Dublin.
    Costs us folk in the west a tidy sum to get to Dublin (2 fecking tolls), never mind the time parking in the airport. 10 euro is nothing.


    Moaning about a 107euro charge for Milan.
    *hits head on brick wall*

    Dont forget a minimum of 70 euro to drive return to Dublin or SHannon in ever increasing petrol costs. C'ant see how flying is still so cheap ??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,196 ✭✭✭OldRio


    Just checked Knock to Frankfurt/Hahn 16euro return. The only additional charge is admin fee.
    20.80euro return from Airport to Koblenz on a bus !!!!!!!
    Thinking of a 3 night break in the middle of this month with 'She who must be obeyed'

    Prices of hotels are a bit off putting.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    OldRio wrote: »
    Just checked Knock to Frankfurt/Hahn 16euro return. The only additional charge is admin fee.
    20.80euro return from Airport to Koblenz on a bus !!!!!!!
    Thinking of a 3 night break in the middle of this month with 'She who must be obeyed'

    Prices of hotels are a bit off putting.

    The best i have seen yet is the 10th - 12th of May is 11 euros return to Paris.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 630 ✭✭✭bagels


    Stab*City wrote: »
    What's travel time from limerick to irl west airport car park? Early morning.

    Leaving Limerick at 7am, 2 hours 30 minutes approx.
    Allow more because you could encounter traffic delays in Claregalway & Tuam


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,909 ✭✭✭munchkin_utd


    bagels wrote: »
    Leaving Limerick at 7am, 2 hours 30 minutes approx.
    Allow more because you could encounter traffic delays in Claregalway & Tuam
    and if not a traffic jam, some auld one doing 40kmh on a road where you wort get overtaking whether because of the road or too much oncoming traffic.

    grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr


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