Miserable Ryanair strike again.

Death and Taxes · 28-03-2013 02:06PM #1

Thats right folks Ryanair the airline everyone loves to fly with but yet everyone loves to abuse is at it again, this time its their staff that are on the recieving end!
http://www.breakingnews.ie/business/ryanair-cabin-crew-to-get-10-pay-rise-589308.html

Don't you just hate them:D

Banjo String · 28-03-2013 02:17PM

WileyCoyote wrote: »

Don't you just hate them:D

No.

They can get me to London from Dublin cheaper than i can get a taxi from Dublin City Centre to Dublin airport.

Play by their rules, and you've a serious asset to the travel industry.

speedboatchase · 28-03-2013 02:22PM

Extremely well run business and congrats to the cabin crew on their pay rise. Irish people should be proud of Ryanair.

On an another note, how is that a news article? Three sentences and that's it? Somebody got paid for that.

hooradiation · 28-03-2013 02:22PM

WileyCoyote wrote: »

Thats right folks Ryanair the airline everyone loves to fly with but yet everyone loves to abuse is at it again, this time its their staff that are on the recieving end!
http://www.breakingnews.ie/business/ryanair-cabin-crew-to-get-10-pay-rise-589308.html

Don't you just hate them:D

Well, should I ever have the misfortune to be on a ryanair flight ever again I'll be sure to soothe myself with the knowledge that their staff got a pay rise to continue being unhelpful shits.

sfwcork · 28-03-2013 02:23PM

I like the hot eastern european cabin girls

crusher000 · 28-03-2013 02:24PM

Nobody forces anyone to fly with them it's an open market. Always avoid using them where I can and therefore I can safely never had an issue with them.

Teyla Emmagan · 28-03-2013 02:25PM

Good for the crew, because I believe they're currently paid buttons. I'm sure they've more than earned it.

BizzyC · 28-03-2013 02:26PM

I dont know why they get so much abuse.

It's like getting a bus. If you play by the rules and do things as they say then you get from A to B very cheaply.

I've flown short haul with Aer Lingus in recent years as well, only discernible difference in the experience was the price.

Death and Taxes · 28-03-2013 02:27PM

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

Good for the crew, because I believe they're currently paid buttons. I'm sure they've more than earned it.

Funnily enough, they're not, they are quite well paid actually.:)

Fattes · 28-03-2013 02:28PM

Fly with them monthly have never had an issue or a charge outsided of what I expected. The do the job for me for a certain type of flight. Fair play to their crew on their pay rise.

Not to many people out there gettting extra in their pay packet right now so it shows the airline is doing something right.

ProudDUB · 28-03-2013 02:28PM

SamHall wrote: »

No.

They can get me to London from Dublin cheaper than i can get a taxi from Dublin City Centre to Dublin airport.

Play by their rules, and you've a serious asset to the travel industry.

Agree 100%. I flew from Dublin to Brussels for 42 euros round trip, all taxes and fees included. The two taxis to and from the airport cost me 47 euros.

And fair play to the staff for getting a pay raise. They get dogs abuse from the public for enforcing rules and regulations that (a) are not of their making (b) are publicized well in advance and (c) with a modicum of thought and planning, are perfectly easy to abide by.

Gone Drinking · 28-03-2013 02:28PM

If you were ever stupid enough to get charged one of ryanairs massive fees for not following the rules, its your own fault.

All I've ever gotten from the company was cheap and on time flights.

And for the "unhelpful staff" that people complain about.. what, because they don't put on a really fake smile and keep asking you "are you ok sir?"

I don't get the ryanair bashers at all

fishy fishy · 28-03-2013 02:28PM

WileyCoyote wrote: »

Thats right folks Ryanair the airline everyone loves to fly with but yet everyone loves to abuse is at it again, this time its their staff that are on the recieving end!
http://www.breakingnews.ie/business/ryanair-cabin-crew-to-get-10-pay-rise-589308.html

Don't you just hate them:D

no, I love them. Only for them an awful lot of Irish people would be suffering from depression at not being able to go on holiday once a year to get some needed Vitamin D.

crusher000 · 28-03-2013 02:29PM

Best Airline I've used recently is Norwegian Airlines to Denamrk. Were cheap and flexible with the old hand luggage.

krudler · 28-03-2013 02:29PM

People who hate on Ryanair make me laugh, go back to paying 250 quid to fly to London so like it was years ago.

Rented Mule · 28-03-2013 02:29PM

sfwcork wrote: »

I like the hot eastern european cabin girls

It's always a pleasure to purchase individual sheets of bog roll of Miss Lithuania 1986.

Banjo String · 28-03-2013 02:30PM

Cienciano · 28-03-2013 02:32PM

Gone Drinking wrote: »

If you were ever stupid enough to get charged one of ryanairs massive fees for not following the rules, its your own fault.

All I've ever gotten from the company was cheap and on time flights.

And for the "unhelpful staff" that people complain about.. what, because they don't put on a really fake smile and keep asking you "are you ok sir?"

I don't get the ryanair bashers at all

A "free" coke while you're in the air is worth paying an extra €100 for a ticket if you ask me :pac:

Corvo · 28-03-2013 02:34PM

Fair play. Not too many companies will be offering a 10% pay rise to it's staff.

Flew with Aer Lingus for the first time in ages last year, and let me tell you, there wasn't much of a difference.

Baldandold · 28-03-2013 02:35PM

Never had a problem with Ryan air

Pilotdude5 · 28-03-2013 02:39PM

Someone may correct me on this but as a large percentage of workers are actually contractors and not Ryanair employees I don't think most will be getting any pay rise.

Peregrine · 28-03-2013 02:48PM

Pilotdude5 wrote: »

Someone may correct me on this but as a large percentage of workers are actually contractors and not Ryanair employees I don't think most will be getting any pay rise.

All of their flight and cabin crew are provided by an agency called Brookfield Aviation, they would still get the pay rise..
All cabin crew and pilots in some bases gets the new allowances and pay increases.

Here's an Independent article

seanl77 · 28-03-2013 02:57PM

Without ryanair i wouldnt have had half the trips/holidays over the past decade, flying over next week to london for the munster heineken cup game for €65 return. My mate is paying €190 with aer lingus to fly the same day, i dont care what anyone tells me ..... its not worth that sort of price difference for a flight that wont even take an hour. More power to ryanair, i hope they start flying to the states soon. That would shake things up nicely

Mr_Spaceman · 28-03-2013 03:27PM

Every time I hear that f-cking trumpet jingle on their flights I want to kill myself.

anncoates · 28-03-2013 03:34PM

In before the I don't care if they use Rohypnol and cattle-prods on their employees as long as I can fly to London for 20 quid even if I can only bring one pair of underpants and a t-shirt with me and in 20 years time I will be moaning all over the net when I'm trying to fly with a family and getting righteously screwed over on my baggage by the low cost flying model that I so breathlessly cheer-leaded for in my twenties.

ejmaztec · 28-03-2013 03:35PM

Mr_Spaceman wrote: »

Every time I hear that f-cking trumpet jingle on their flights I want to kill myself.

You've obviously overcome the urge yet again.:P

Snickers Man · 28-03-2013 04:02PM

krudler wrote: »

People who hate on Ryanair make me laugh, go back to paying 250 quid to fly to London so like it was years ago.

I never paid 250 quid to fly to London from Dublin and I've been doing it since the early 1980s. Don't believe all the bull****.

My daughter had to pay way over 200 quid a while back for the same trip with Ryanair. Partly her own fault. But what a stinging fee to hit people with for a simple misunderstanding.

I choose NOT to fly with them wherever possible. (putting my money where my mouth is). And in keeping with the spirit of the poster who pointed out that it's an open market and we have the choice to use them or not.

Long may it remain so. In other words: keep O'Leary's greasy hands off Aer Lingus.

FTA69 · 28-03-2013 04:34PM

WileyCoyote wrote: »

Thats right folks Ryanair the airline everyone loves to fly with but yet everyone loves to abuse is at it again, this time its their staff that are on the recieving end!
http://www.breakingnews.ie/business/ryanair-cabin-crew-to-get-10-pay-rise-589308.html

Don't you just hate them:D

They managed to get a pay rise due to collective organising and bargaining, not because Ryanair are nice people. Ryanair has consistantly attempted to prevent the people that work for them engaging in legitimate trade union activity and at one stage even fired people for disseminating leaflets. They embody everything that is wrong with corporate greed.

The fact they sell cheap flights is immaterial; Chiquita sell cheap bananas but it doesn't justify the fact they treat their staff abysmally. It always bemuses me when people fawn over multinational companies.

bleg · 28-03-2013 04:35PM

speedboatchase wrote: »

Extremely well run business and congrats to the cabin crew on their pay rise. Irish people should be proud of Ryanair.

On an another note, how is that a news article? Three sentences and that's it? Somebody got paid for that.

Their web hosters run a Ryanair business model. Each letter costs.

Cienciano · 28-03-2013 05:00PM

Snickers Man wrote: »

I never paid 250 quid to fly to London from Dublin and I've been doing it since the early 1980s. Don't believe all the bull****.

My daughter had to pay way over 200 quid a while back for the same trip with Ryanair. Partly her own fault. But what a stinging fee to hit people with for a simple misunderstanding.

I choose NOT to fly with them wherever possible. (putting my money where my mouth is). And in keeping with the spirit of the poster who pointed out that it's an open market and we have the choice to use them or not.

Long may it remain so. In other words: keep O'Leary's greasy hands off Aer Lingus.

Take inflation and the price of the punt into account, and by todays standard you would have easily paid €200 to fly to london. OK, maybe you didn't personally, but it was standard enough back then.
I remember trying to book a flight in 1997 to london. First of all, I had to ring about 10 travel agents. Cheapest flight was about £150. Bus was £45. That's easily €200 now.
And your daughter had to pay €200 a while back, presumably because she was booking late or there was something on. Well, in the late 90's my mate had to fly to london when an Ireland 6 nations match was on. Ticket cost £350. So the practice of rip of flights wasn't something invented by ryanair.
Now, here's something that I'd bet my house on: I flew to yorkshire for €20, flew to Barcelona for €55 (including all taxes and charges), not a hope you would have got that back in the 80's or 90's. Maybe if you went on standby and didn't mind what city you went to. But make no mistake, flying now is a fraction of the price is was in the 80's and 90's.

Agricola · 28-03-2013 05:27PM

Ryanair is the Lidl of the aviation world. You don't get a hello or goodbye, you do your own heavy lifting, pay, and leave. Other shops have a nicer experience, but the price is the bottom line for almost everyone. O' Leary doesnt claim it to be any other way. This is what is required to get you the cheapest price. I personally would not have gotten anywhere in Europe over the past few years without Ryanair, so I'll happily dance to his tune.

Miserable Ryanair strike again.

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