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Ryanair “deal of all deals”

  • 23-09-2020 9:16pm
    #1
    cavanman..
    Registered Users Posts: 41 ✭


    As per Ryanair app: “The deal of all deals is on its way! Starts at 12.01am, who said you don’t get anything for free”


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  • #2
    cavanman..
    Registered Users Posts: 41 ✭cavanman..


    cavanman.. wrote: »
    As per Ryanair app: “The deal of all deals is on its way! Starts at 12.01am, who said you don’t get anything for free”

    See attached screenshot


  • #3
    ASOT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,739 ✭✭✭ASOT


    It's buy one get one free according to twitter.


  • #4
    Mongfinder General
    Registered Users Posts: 1,992 ✭✭✭Mongfinder General


    O'Leary must be losing his bollox.


  • #5
    smellyoldboot
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,075 ✭✭✭smellyoldboot


    Actually wait until Micky gets the idea of including a CoVid test in the add-ons when trying to book a flight. Flight €0.99, Seat €7.99, Luggage €19.99, Mandatory Swab €299.99, Scratch card €2.....


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Not much good if there are still change fees. I book Aer Lingus all the time now as they waived the fees. That is way more persuasive than cheap seats in the current climate. There are flights I have changed literally 4 or 5 times. Complete flexibility and a great encouragement to book

    Ryanair advertised no change fees a while back, but the exclusions made it very hard to change


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  • #7
    Hurrache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,240 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    cavanman.. wrote: »
    who said you don’t get anything for free”

    Well those ****ers likely got free money by investing in all the money they got from the public they weren't refunding.


  • #8
    Inquitus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,762 ✭✭✭✭Inquitus


    cavanman.. wrote: »
    As per Ryanair app: “The deal of all deals is on its way! Starts at 12.01am, who said you don’t get anything for free”

    Of all the countries on our Green List, only Poland admits us without restrictions currently, so its not a great deal of use!


  • #9
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,827 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Not much good if there are still change fees. I book Aer Lingus all the time now as they waived the fees. That is way more persuasive than cheap seats in the current climate. There are flights I have changed literally 4 or 5 times. Complete flexibility and a great encouragement to book

    Ryanair advertised no change fees a while back, but the exclusions made it very hard to change
    I changed a flight for free just a few days ago and no charge for change is mentioned throughout their website.


  • #10
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,998 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Book a flight to somewhere and get a free one.

    And not be allowed to fly and have to wait months to get a voucher refund?

    No thanks.


  • #11
    Curb Your Enthusiasm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,482 ✭✭✭Curb Your Enthusiasm


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    I changed a flight for free just a few days ago and no charge for change is mentioned throughout their website.

    Has to be 7 days before the takeoff date, learned that the hard way, when our beloved government decided to remove Italy from the green list the day after we were due to fly.


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  • #12
    nava
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,739 ✭✭✭nava


    NIMAN wrote: »
    And not be allowed to fly and have to wait months to get a voucher refund?

    They improve on refunds, I had a booking canceled, the flight out was for the middle of August with return 1st week of September, the return flight was canceled in the middle of August, I applied for a refund, I was offered a voucher a week later that I declined, I got the refund about 10 days ago, so less than a month from the request to getting the actual refund.


  • #13
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    They'll only refund a cancelled flight though, right?

    If they fly you're out of luck.

    In this time - here is no way I'd book anything with Ryanair.
    Aer Lingus offered me a voucher for my flights in August long no questions, while people I know got zip for Ryanair flights in July and August.


  • #14
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83,430 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    If I ever book a flight again with Ryanair it will be using PayPal, the credit card companies fooked people over looking for refunds which Ryanair delayed by months, PayPal sided more with the consumer for fast refunds.


  • #15
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,585 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    Half price flights. Must fly before the end of the year.


  • #16
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    I changed a flight for free just a few days ago and no charge for change is mentioned throughout their website.

    You have to change a week before, which isn’t much hood when things are so fast moving. You can change Aer Lingus on the day of the flight, as many times as you want, and even change it after you’ve checked in

    For me that is a greater incentive to book than a cheap ticket


  • #17
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83,430 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    Buy one flight get a 2nd on the same flight for free.


  • #18
    Beersmith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,417 ✭✭✭Beersmith


    Its very restricted though. Mainly midweek


  • #19
    pc7
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 14,124 Mod ✭✭✭✭pc7


    After the battle I had with RA to try get a refund for a flight they cancelled for almost a grand, I'll do all I can going forward to never travel with them again.


  • #20
    mcgragger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 454 ✭✭mcgragger


    why would anyone want to fly anywhere other than for essential work?
    I wont be getting on a plane again until I can visit a place like the way we used to


  • #21
    Clonmel1000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,047 ✭✭✭Clonmel1000


    mcgragger wrote: »
    why would anyone want to fly anywhere other than for essential work?
    I wont be getting on a plane again until I can visit a place like the way we used to

    Because chances are the place you visit will be a lot safer and a lot more relaxed than this place.


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  • #22
    Inquitus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,762 ✭✭✭✭Inquitus


    Clonmel1000 wrote: »
    Because chances are the place you visit will be a lot safer and a lot more relaxed than this place.

    Currently only Poland on our Green list will let you in without testing and/or quarantine restrictions.


  • #23
    touts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,536 ✭✭✭touts


    Travel between 25th Sept and 14th December. The peak of the incoming 2nd wave.

    Half price (or buy one get one free) means you are just going to lose half the money you would have lost yesterday.


  • #24
    cronos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,719 ✭✭✭cronos


    touts wrote: »
    Travel between 25th Sept and 14th December. The peak of the incoming 2nd wave.

    Half price (or buy one get one free) means you are just going to lose half the money you would have lost yesterday.

    More like you will actually get to use one flight potentially if booked soon. Then second flight you won't get to use as they know you will space it out towards the end of the year when the wave is most likely to hit.


  • #25
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    mcgragger wrote: »
    why would anyone want to fly anywhere other than for essential work?
    I wont be getting on a plane again until I can visit a place like the way we used to


    There are actually plenty of idiots booking flights to nowhere at the moment - take off and land at the same airport after maybe 4 or 5 hours in the air - just because they miss the experience of flying.



    Fools and their money!


  • #26
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,827 ✭ [Deleted User]


    touts wrote: »
    Travel between 25th Sept and 14th December. The peak of the incoming 2nd wave.

    Half price (or buy one get one free) means you are just going to lose half the money you would have lost yesterday.
    Some of us can travel without being irresponsible.
    I've be happily travelling to Ireland in coming weeks and months.
    Mandatory tests when returning and possible self-isolation for a highly unlikely positive test are not an issue for me.
    There are huge numbers of people who have been putting off travel and these promotions are bargains for us.
    The biggest problem is that the choice of flights is very much reduced as all carriers have been scaling back services.


  • #27
    gipi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,035 ✭✭✭gipi


    cronos wrote: »
    More like you will actually get to use one flight potentially if booked soon. Then second flight you won't get to use as they know you will space it out towards the end of the year when the wave is most likely to hit.

    The deal is buy one, get a second for the same flight free - so "bring a friend for free".


  • #28
    thefa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭thefa


    This condition limits the benefits for those wanting more than a few days:

    Promotion only available on Value fares.


  • #29
    mcgragger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 454 ✭✭mcgragger


    Clonmel1000 wrote: »
    Because chances are the place you visit will be a lot safer and a lot more relaxed than this place.

    Like where - I would love a holiday but not going to do it when the Covid is still around and everywher I would fancy going would be subject to Covid rules.
    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    There are actually plenty of idiots booking flights to nowhere at the moment - take off and land at the same airport after maybe 4 or 5 hours in the air - just because they miss the experience of flying.



    Fools and their money!

    Madness. Going to an airport with all this going on is not my idea of fun
    Deleted User wrote: »
    Some of us can travel without being irresponsible.
    I've be happily travelling to Ireland in coming weeks and months.
    Mandatory tests when returning and possible self-isolation for a highly unlikely positive test are not an issue for me.
    There are huge numbers of people who have been putting off travel and these promotions are bargains for us.
    The biggest problem is that the choice of flights is very much reduced as all carriers have been scaling back services.

    If you need to travel thats fine but as a leisure traveller that likes city breaks there is no reason for me to go anywhere. Dublin is dead and if thats an indication of other cities then feck it I will stay at home


  • #30
    stoneill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,609 ✭✭✭stoneill


    I'm sure a lot of destinations would be OK to visit but I would not like to spend any time cooped up in an airplane right now.


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  • #31
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    Curb Your Enthusiasm wrote: »
    Has to be 7 days before the takeoff date, learned that the hard way, when our beloved government decided to remove Italy from the green list the day after we were due to fly.

    Yeh, our government were at fault for an increase of cases in Italy :rolleyes:


  • #32
    Del Griffith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,216 ✭✭✭Del Griffith


    mcgragger wrote: »

    Madness. Going to an airport with all this going on is not my idea of fun

    I just flew this morning, the airport is an absolute pleasure at the moment, you are through it in seconds no ques and no hassle. Also have a whole row to yourself if there's space on the flight, which there is most of the time (unless this sale somehow goes well).

    You are much more likely to catch covid in your local supermarket.
    mcgragger wrote: »
    If you need to travel thats fine but as a leisure traveller that likes city breaks there is no reason for me to go anywhere. Dublin is dead and if thats an indication of other cities then feck it I will stay at home

    Dublin is the deadest and most locked down place in Europe, nowhere else is as dead as Dublin.


  • #33
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,827 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Del Griffith wrote: »
    Dublin is the deadest and most locked down place in Europe, nowhere else is as dead as Dublin.
    Yes, elsewhere people are going about their daily lives and generally the only inconveniences they are suffering are dried out hand from all the hand sanitizing alcohol and the need to wear masks in shared spaces.
    What is happening in Ireland is just prolonged hysteria.
    Other Countries who can't be accused of being irresponsible are introducing measured responses like testing when returning from hot spots like Dublin.


  • #34
    JohnnyChimpo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,094 ✭✭✭JohnnyChimpo


    no thanks Michael, I'll gladly pay double to avoid ever dealing with your ballache of a company and miserable flight experience ever again


  • #35
    Living Off The Splash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,131 ✭✭✭Living Off The Splash


    JohnnyChimpo wrote: »
    no thanks Michael, I'll gladly pay double to avoid ever dealing with your ballache of a company and miserable flight experience ever again

    Still waiting on my refund for a cancelled May flight from Ryanair.

    I sent them an email last week in reply to an email that they sent me about a cancelled April flight and they haven't bother to respond.

    They wouldn't refund me cash for a "gift card" element of a flight purchase. Insisted I take another gift card with an expiry date next January.


  • #36
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    mcgragger wrote: »
    why would anyone want to fly anywhere other than for essential work?
    I wont be getting on a plane again until I can visit a place like the way we used to

    Right now the places I’ve been are better than they used to be, as is the process of actually travelling


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  • #37
    touts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,536 ✭✭✭touts


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Some of us can travel without being irresponsible.
    I've be happily travelling to Ireland in coming weeks and months.
    Mandatory tests when returning and possible self-isolation for a highly unlikely positive test are not an issue for me.
    There are huge numbers of people who have been putting off travel and these promotions are bargains for us.
    The biggest problem is that the choice of flights is very much reduced as all carriers have been scaling back services.

    My concern isn't irresponsible travelers. My concern is giving Ryanair money for flights in the future when there is a strong possibility/probability that airports will be shut again and they still haven't refunded money for thousands of customers who had flights cancelled six months ago.


  • #38
    ch750536
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,736 ✭✭✭ch750536


    pc7 wrote: »
    After the battle I had with RA to try get a refund for a flight they cancelled for almost a grand, I'll do all I can going forward to never travel with them again.

    Chargeback. Once the flight is cancelled they have to refund within 7 days. I did it with Ryanair and AerLingus, both within 7 days.


  • #39
    MOH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,465 ✭✭✭MOH


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Yes, elsewhere people are going about their daily lives and generally the only inconveniences they are suffering are dried out hand from all the hand sanitizing alcohol and the need to wear masks in shared spaces.
    What is happening in Ireland is just prolonged hysteria.
    Other Countries who can't be accused of being irresponsible are introducing measured responses like testing when returning from hot spots like Dublin.

    So it's hysteria but it's also a hot spot? :rolleyes:


  • #40
    Muahahaha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,688 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    pc7 wrote: »
    After the battle I had with RA to try get a refund for a flight they cancelled for almost a grand, I'll do all I can going forward to never travel with them again.

    They really took the piss when Covid hit, even going so far as lobbying Fine Gael to do their bidding for them in Brussels who slapped them down by saying refunds not vouchers. A month after Covid hit Easy Jet had processed some 75% of refunds, BA 89% while Ryanair had processed just 12%. That wasnt by accident, they wanted to keep customers money in their bank account even as people were losing their jobs.
    mcgragger wrote: »
    why would anyone want to fly anywhere other than for essential work?
    I wont be getting on a plane again until I can visit a place like the way we used to

    Id be the opposite, now would be a great time to see cities that suffer from over tourism. Im thinking things like the 2 hour long queue to get into the Vatican muesum would now be gone and you could walk straight in. Venice wouldnt be anywhere near as mobbed as it is under normal circumstances. So for some travelling now is an opportunity to avoid that kind of stuff.


  • #41
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,827 ✭ [Deleted User]


    MOH wrote: »
    So it's hysteria but it's also a hot spot? :rolleyes:
    Yes, Hysteria...Hysteria making people petrified with fear leading to poor decision making when there is a clear but eminently manageable risk.


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  • #42
    pc7
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 14,124 Mod ✭✭✭✭pc7


    ch750536 wrote: »
    Chargeback. Once the flight is cancelled they have to refund within 7 days. I did it with Ryanair and AerLingus, both within 7 days.

    Depends on your bank, I applied for one in June with AIB and after 4 months of torture with RA they paid out before the charge back. Still have chargeback with them for Air Europa, they’ll probably pay out before AIB get to it (said 1000’s in queue). As I say it has left such a bad taste I will do all I can traveling going forward not to use RA again.


  • #43
    Bikerman2019
    Closed Accounts Posts: 992 ✭✭✭Bikerman2019


    Dublin Liverpool Dec 5th has gone from 12.99 each way to 60 euro one way but it is ok, it is buy one get one free.


    Think I will pass.....


  • #44
    Living Off The Splash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,131 ✭✭✭Living Off The Splash


    Ryanair cancelled their flights this summer. Because they cancelled the flights they had to refund monies paid, back to those who booked.
    Next year they will play a different game. Flights booked will not be cancelled. They will then get to keep the monies paid because they will fly with empty planes. Probably have skeleton staff on each flight. Win Win for Ryanair.


  • #45
    Double O Seven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 111 ✭✭Double O Seven


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    There are actually plenty of idiots booking flights to nowhere at the moment - take off and land at the same airport after maybe 4 or 5 hours in the air - just because they miss the experience of flying.



    Fools and their money!

    Source?


  • #46
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,827 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Living Off The Splash wrote: »
    Probably have skeleton staff on each flight.
    2 pilots and 4 crew on all flights by law but at the moment a larger proportion of the people booking a flight aren't turning up than was normal in the past and they get to keep that fare and passenger taxes.


  • #47
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,851 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Myself and my extended family and friends will never travel Ryan air again after micky Leary’s antics over the last 6 months and his general antics the last decade


  • #48
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Double O Seven wrote: »
    Source?

    It’s true. It’s a service being offered by an airline in, i think, SE Asia. Saw it in the news a couple of weeks ago


  • #49
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,827 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    Myself and my extended family and friends will never travel Ryan air again after micky Leary’s antics over the last 6 months and his general antics the last decade
    I'd give more credence to your comments if I didn't know that you have an ulterior motive; https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=110970253&postcount=2144
    Get back in your box, ya disingenuous spoofer.


  • #50
    Valhallapt
    Registered Users Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭Valhallapt


    I've booked a few speculative flights, cost almost nothing and if i get going great, otherwise not much lost!


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