General Ryanair discusion

Van.Bosch · 10-01-2019 1:29pm

Flyer29 wrote: »

Hi, hope somebody can help me here.

I’m trying to book a flight with Ryanair to Liverpool in a few weeks. I need 4 seats. When I go to book them it tells me the flight is sold out for that particular date which is fine, however when I try to book the flight for 1 person it allows me to book it.

When I get to the pick a seat stage in the booking it shows the flight is half empty. Anyone ever see this before? Is it likely they’ll put them back on sale again? I’m afraid to book the seats individually incase it sells out after buying 1 or 2 seats

Thanks

It means there is less than 4 seats available, if you can buy 1, there is one free. Try 2 and 3 and you’ll see exactly how many.

The free seats just means most people havnt paid for a seat, they will be allocated at check in

Flyer29 · 10-01-2019 1:54pm

Makes sense. Thanks a lot guys!

L1011 · 10-01-2019 2:59pm

Just note Manchester has far more flights and good rail links from the airport to Liverpool

dzilla · 10-01-2019 4:03pm

Yup very handy from Manchester Airport Train Station to Liverpool.

Flyer29 · 10-01-2019 4:07pm

There’s seats on the outbound flight to Liverpool so I’ll probably book them as I’ll be on a tight schedule for a match and then I’ll book the return leg with Aer Lingus from Manchester

Thanks again the everyone

rivegauche · 10-01-2019 4:07pm

dzilla wrote: »

Yup very handy from Manchester Airport Train Station to Liverpool.

I'd expect that at this low time of year a car hire in Manchester would be much cheaper than public transport from either Liverpool or Manchester.

dzilla · 10-01-2019 4:15pm

Flyer29 wrote: »

There’s seats on the outbound flight to Liverpool so I’ll probably book them as I’ll be on a tight schedule for a match and then I’ll book the return leg with Aer Lingus from Manchester Thanks again the everyone

if there is a group of ye mini cab might be same price actually as per previous post.

L1011 · 28-02-2019 9:47pm

Everyone - when someone posts multiple, bloody stupid questions about fleet types and/or DUB runway layouts - its a specific sad sack troll. Don't reply to them.

rugbyman · 03-03-2019 11:14am

advice needed

I am in france ,would like to travel home on Ryanair ex Beauvais,it is fully booked

is it possible to buy a ticket in the terminal if some one does not show up?
Thanks in advance

Rawr · 03-03-2019 11:28am

rugbyman wrote: »

advice needed

I am in france ,would like to travel home on Ryanair ex Beauvais,it is fully booked

is it possible to buy a ticket in the terminal if some one does not show up?
Thanks in advance

Not sure if that would work...and if it work did it probably wouldn't be cheap. Plus you might end up stuck in Beauvais.

Depending on where you are, you might be better off hunting for free seats with the other airlines at the other airports.

LeChienMefiant · 03-03-2019 11:33am

Or if it has to be ex Beauvais then go via another Ryanair hub e.g. Stansted.

Edit: never mind, Ryanair don't fly to UK ex Beauvais by the looks of it.

rugbyman · 03-03-2019 11:34am

it used work, some years ago, but maybe since everybody has tickets pre checked in? chap on Ryanair chat says no, but he may be wrong

when it was possible ,it was full fare
Thanks

rugbyman · 03-03-2019 11:36am

I will be in Beauvais airport anyway, if this is not possible ,I will have to bus it to Paris CDG

kub · 04-03-2019 8:40pm

This may have already been discussed in this thread but I just noticed a RYR 738 about to depart Cork to Gdansk.

It is the first time I have seen one without an EI reg, it's reg is SP-RSS and flight radar suggests it is brand new.
Is this an indication that RYR are no longer registering their aircraft here ?

Shn99 · 04-03-2019 8:47pm

kub wrote: »

This may have already been discussed in this thread but I just noticed a RYR 738 about to depart Cork to Gdansk.

It is the first time I have seen one without an EI reg, it's reg is SP-RSS and flight radar suggests it is brand new.
Is this an indication that RYR are no longer registering their aircraft here ?

Its registered to the polish charter subsidiary Ryanair Sun, operating scheduled flights during the winter downtime. The flight in question has been flown by a polish reg’d aircraft for quite some months now.

kevinandrew · 04-03-2019 8:47pm

Ryanair has a Polish subsidiary, Ryanair Sun which has aircraft registered in Poland. I think they plan to have British registered aircraft as well once Brexit happens, with aircraft operating under the Ryanair UK banner.

The vast majority will still be Irish registered.

IngazZagni · 05-03-2019 12:25am

Yes Ryanair forced all their Polish based staff to become self employed contractors or else they would be moved out of the Country or even be sacked.
It's a separate AOC and the Polish crew cant fly on the Irish AOC and vice versa.

kevinandrew · 05-03-2019 12:59am

Speaking of Ryanair’s Polish operation, they seem to be scaling back their Warsaw Modlin operation with 2 less aircraft and 12 routes cancelled.

A lot of internal politics going on with the general consensus being that the state via PPL which owns or at least has shares in both Modlin and Chopin, is attempting to protect Warsaw Chopin and in doing so protect flag carrier LOT by forcing up costs and limiting expansion at Modlin. It’s essentially trying to turn the two Warsaw airports into its own duoply.

LOT is in a major, somewhat disjointed, expansion mode at the moment. It’s losing focus and making itself vulnerable to a low cost onslaught.

rugbyman · 06-03-2019 1:33pm

rugbyman wrote: »

it used work, some years ago, but maybe since everybody has tickets pre checked in? chap on Ryanair chat says no, but he may be wrong

when it was possible ,it was full fare
Thanks

Am answering my own question here, perhaps the knowledge I gained will be of use to someone

I arrived at Beauvais three hours before take off. and spoke to helpful lady in office ,Virginie. She told me the only option , because people could arrive at last minute,was to buy a standby ,so I could go through security and leave,with a refund if I did not get on.

Not wanting to wait that long,as two buses to CDG would be tight, I asked if she would tell me at 15.10(flight 17.10) how many had actually checked in.
She said she could. if ,say,over ten had not checked in, then it was unlikely that all these ten would arrive late and pay for their late print tickets.

Ahm, she says lets look now and see, and amazingly, she said there was a ticket (s) available, even on the website!!!! This made my day, for the previous two days the website was fully booked!!! 170 euro . at one time with Ryanair last minute tickets were 260 euro

How this works, that seats come available is a mystery to me,, My theory is this... there were two pilots travelling as passengers, perhaps Ryanair had expected more...

billie1b · 06-03-2019 1:38pm

rugbyman wrote: »

Am answering my own question here, perhaps the knowledge I gained will be of use to someone

I arrived at Beauvais three hours before take off. and spoke to helpful lady in office ,Virginie. She told me the only option , because people could arrive at last minute,was to buy a standby ,so I could go through security and leave,with a refund if I did not get on.

Not wanting to wait that long,as two buses to CDG would be tight, I asked if she would tell me at 15.10(flight 17.10) how many had actually checked in.
She said she could. if ,say,over ten had not checked in, then it was unlikely that all these ten would arrive late and pay for their late print tickets.

Ahm, she says lets look now and see, and amazingly, she said there was a ticket (s) available, even on the website!!!! This made my day, for the previous two days the website was fully booked!!! 170 euro . at one time with Ryanair last minute tickets were 260 euro

How this works, that seats come available is a mystery to me,, My theory is this... there were two pilots travelling as passengers, perhaps Ryanair had expected more...

Ryanair don’t know how many pilots/jumpseats/positioning crew are on any flight as they can just rock up to any flight, they don’t have tickets either, they travel for free so not on the booking system. They only sit in the cabin if there are seats available, otherwise they sit in jumpseats.

LeChienMefiant · 06-03-2019 1:38pm

How much was standby?

Van.Bosch · 06-03-2019 2:55pm

rugbyman wrote: »

Am answering my own question here, perhaps the knowledge I gained will be of use to someone

I arrived at Beauvais three hours before take off. and spoke to helpful lady in office ,Virginie. She told me the only option , because people could arrive at last minute,was to buy a standby ,so I could go through security and leave,with a refund if I did not get on.

Not wanting to wait that long,as two buses to CDG would be tight, I asked if she would tell me at 15.10(flight 17.10) how many had actually checked in.
She said she could. if ,say,over ten had not checked in, then it was unlikely that all these ten would arrive late and pay for their late print tickets.

Ahm, she says lets look now and see, and amazingly, she said there was a ticket (s) available, even on the website!!!! This made my day, for the previous two days the website was fully booked!!! 170 euro . at one time with Ryanair last minute tickets were 260 euro

How this works, that seats come available is a mystery to me,, My theory is this... there were two pilots travelling as passengers, perhaps Ryanair had expected more...

Someone changed their booking to another date, seat becomes available and sold.

Credit Checker Moose · 06-03-2019 2:58pm

LeChienMefiant wrote: »

How much was standby?

170 he says.

Rawr · 06-03-2019 8:46pm

rugbyman wrote: »

Am answering my own question here, perhaps the knowledge I gained will be of use to someone

I arrived at Beauvais three hours before take off. and spoke to helpful lady in office ,Virginie. She told me the only option , because people could arrive at last minute,was to buy a standby ,so I could go through security and leave,with a refund if I did not get on.

Not wanting to wait that long,as two buses to CDG would be tight, I asked if she would tell me at 15.10(flight 17.10) how many had actually checked in.
She said she could. if ,say,over ten had not checked in, then it was unlikely that all these ten would arrive late and pay for their late print tickets.

Ahm, she says lets look now and see, and amazingly, she said there was a ticket (s) available, even on the website!!!! This made my day, for the previous two days the website was fully booked!!! 170 euro . at one time with Ryanair last minute tickets were 260 euro

How this works, that seats come available is a mystery to me,, My theory is this... there were two pilots travelling as passengers, perhaps Ryanair had expected more...

Very glad I was wrong there about the possibility of standby. I've done that bus trip from Beauvais and I'm glad you didn't have to go through that...

rugbyman · 07-03-2019 10:05am

Le chien, I actually did not ask,as seat became available.that seat was 170

rugbyman · 07-03-2019 10:06am

Van bosch. Obvious answer,was not thinking right

rivegauche · 08-03-2019 2:05pm

My flight booked at about 3 hours notice on way to the airport via mobile phone in passenger seat of car at New Years was 135 including priority/baggage. It appears they are not crucifying those who book at short notice to the same extent as they might have in the past.

LeChienMefiant · 08-03-2019 2:06pm

rivegauche wrote: »

My flight booked at about 3 hours notice on way to the airport via mobile phone in passenger seat of car at New Years was 135 including priority/baggage. It appears they are not crucifying those who book at short notice to the same extent as they might have in the past.

Probably because the loads are down?

rivegauche · 08-03-2019 2:23pm

LeChienMefiant wrote: »

Probably because the loads are down?

Fairly full flight. No evidence that their loads are down. They are still at 96% load factor.

VG31 · 08-03-2019 2:48pm

rivegauche wrote: »

My flight booked at about 3 hours notice on way to the airport via mobile phone in passenger seat of car at New Years was 135 including priority/baggage. It appears they are not crucifying those who book at short notice to the same extent as they might have in the past.

That is one good thing about Ryanair compared to other airlines. One of the EI flights I was on recently only had a load factor of 25% but was still €200-300 to book a day or two before.

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