Miserable Ryanair strike again.

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

Are you Aer Lingus cabin crew? All the shamrock is, is Ryanair light at this stage, had a crew member from Aer Lingus tell me to shove it and fly Swiss if they were so much better. I have had return flights every week since Dec with Swiss/Luft and I will not be returning to Aer Lingus. Mr O'Leary would do a great job of showing Aer Lingus staff the real world.

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

Flying from BVA to DUB last year, I prepaid to check in our bags. My son had a penny skate board, he wanted to carry it on. I asked the girl at the check-in desk if we could carry it on or if I should add put it inside one of the suitcases we were checking in. She says no problem to carry it on. Get to the gate and there they say I needed to check it in. I asked them to check with the check-in girl and she confirmed it but now I had to pay 60 euros. Any other place would have said, our skrew up, no need to pay. But not Ryan Air.

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****.

It's not bull$hit. My father worked at Dublin Airport for 30 odd years. He worked for the old Aer Rianta semi state body, the fore runner to todays Dublin Airport Authority. My dad got heavily discounted tickets on Aer Lingus, not the mega cheapo fare that Aer Lingus staff got, but pretty damm sweet deals all the same. A lot of people in our housing estate were airport workers too and would have gotten deeply discounted staff travel too.

Even with those discounts of up to 50% off, my dad still couldn't take a family of 6 away for regular holidays. The fares on Aer Lingus back then were so INSANELY expensive, none but the richest people in the country could afford them on a regular basis. We certainly couldn't, and nor could our neighbours.

Contrast that to the ease and cheapness that Ryanair offer to travelers today, and it is night and day imo. Back in the pre Ryanair days, coughing up the crazy money that Aer Lingus wanted for fares may have been doable for a single person with a decent job or no ties and commitments. It certainly wasn't for someone with a mortgage and kids.

Mr_Spaceman wrote: »

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

so your not happy your flights are on time? i couldnt give a f*ck what they play as long as i get to my destination cheaply, on time and safely and ryanair tick those 3 boxes.

Yamanoto wrote: »

Do you mean Charleroi PD?

If so, those Taxi fares seem lower than I would have expected.

Yep, Charleroi. Flights alone were 35.99 @17.99 euros each way. Fees and what not bumped it up to 42/44 euros or thereabouts.

The taxi fares I referred to were from/to Sutton in Dublin to/from Dublin Airport. I didn't get a taxi to/from Charleroi Airport to Brussels Central. I tookthe airport shuttle bus. That cost 20 quid, or thereabouts. I wasn't all that bothered about paying it to be honest. The fare to fly into the main Brussels airport on Aer Lingus was over 120 euros more and I still would have had to have paid something similar to get from Brussels International to Brussels Central.

Ive always found ryanair staff to be just as friendly as any other airline to be honest, i think some people expect a standing ovation when they board a plane! If you are paying a pittance for a flight, you cant expect business class luxury.........

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

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

There are two points in the article which jump out at me....

There are over 2,400 pilots working for the airline and 5,200 flight attendants.

7,600 front-line staff.....?

That is one impressive statistic for an airline operating a fleet of Irish Registered aircraft.

Perhaps somebody knowledgable could advise as to what the registration and allied charges are in Ireland for a Boeing 737-800 ?

The second,and potentially more concerning point is....

Productivity-based incentive payments accounted for about 47pc of an average flight attendant's total earnings at Ryanair last year and 37pc of the typical pilot's compensation.

We,as passengers,know all about the Cabin Crews incentive led flogging of various promotional stuff,however I have never found it overly intrusive and have never been hounded in the manner of a Sky TV subscription campaign.

What does concern me as a Ryanair customer is that level of incentivization on a Pilots "compensation".

I believe 37%,if accurate,is an excessive level of dependence on performance related incentive payments,given the highly unique nature of the Flight Crew's function.

I am aware that much of this is in the area of Fuel usage and turnaround times,but I would be more comfortable with knowing that a Flight Crew on my Ryanair flight were fully focused on that flight alone,rather than any possible means of maintaining or improving their "Incentive" payments.

But,it's not my Airline,and those staff numbers tell a somewhat different story to the accepted Ryanair=North KoreanAir comparisons being constantly flogged to death by certain media outlets.

If I were to be retained as a Consultant by Micheal O Leary,I'd suggest that he keeps an eye on those "Busdrivers" of his,as they literally keep his operation in the air !!!

I paid 150 sterling in the early 90s for return flights from London to Ireland. My weeks wages were less than 150 sterling before tax so it was a hefty fare.

I book the cheapest flights available for the time I am going, I have never found any other airline to be cheaper than Ryanair.

Im the early 90's when a generation emigrated to the UK, the cheapest ticket you could buy was an Apex Aer Lingus fare - this cost two hundred and sixty old pounds - IF you could get one, and only a limited number were released, and you could only buy them two weeks before the flight. If you didn't get one then it was the standard six or more hundred punts fare.

If you never paid the Apex fare my guess is you work for Aer Lingus.

Ryan air broke the back of the monopoly and opened cheep and reliable flying.

I NEVER use Aer Lingus for connecting flights or for business's trips anymore and use Ryanair by preference. Aer Lingus will consistently book flights and then cancel one & leave you hanging around for hours waiting for the next one to " fill" it up. I've missed too many connections and spent too many hours hanging around terminals for wasted hours to ever risk an Aer Mingus flight again.

Not to mention the obvious . Read the conditions and play by the rules and you will get cheep, reliable ,dependable Ryanair service .

Note - last year when I had to fly Aer Mingus ex Boston the marching thugs that masqueraded as Aer " hostesses" spent the first five minutes of their " welcome" shouting over the PA that they were not there to serve us but to provide Air safety, and we ( customers) were not to disturb them because they were busy. Un-f'ing-believable. And they were totally oblivious to the gasps of disgust and disbelief that filled the cabin at that.

Roll on Ryanair victory over the Atlantic.
Aer Lingus - E4000 home for Christmas from Boston - that's Still Aer and yet they can still " afford" to roll their almost free and standby Flights for their staff, their stff buddy friends and their families .

Can't wait til Ryanair are running transatlantic flights. Might see some extended family and friends at actual Christmastime for a change instead of late January or February.