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Ryanair flights cancelled to Madrid

Pimp_Spur

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Mar 23, 2005
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has anyone else been affected by cancelled flights to Madrid? I was supposed to be flying out on the early morning flight on the day of the game.

Just received a message to say the flight has been cancelled
 

Col_M

Pointing out the Obvious
Feb 28, 2012
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What a company. I have never used the because if the way they treat their customers. They are the Gerald Ratnor of airlines, sell it cheap and they will come.
 

Coyboy

The Double of 1961 is still The Double
Dec 3, 2004
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OP you might want to look at flights to other cities then get the train or bus. I'm going via valencia partly because I have friends there but also works out cheaper.
 

Mr.D

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Dec 2, 2014
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I've only used Ryanair for one trip, to gran canaria and back. I swore at the time that I'd never use them again and so far I've managed to avoid doing so.
Not that that helps op but there we are. Shit company.
 

Geyzer Soze

Fearlessly the idiot faced the crowd
Aug 16, 2010
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Ditto. Once & never again. If I can afford another airline I'll go, if not I won't go

EasyJet the same. I've travelled with them a lot more & I used to have £100 rule - if the alternative was more than 100 more I'd take EasyJet. But no more with them either

Their strategy is to dehumanized you into a number then you'll grit your teeth & accept any treatment. & if you don't & you complain they threaten you with the no- fly list
 

mightyspur

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Aug 21, 2014
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Ditto. Once & never again. If I can afford another airline I'll go, if not I won't go

EasyJet the same. I've travelled with them a lot more & I used to have £100 rule - if the alternative was more than 100 more I'd take EasyJet. But no more with them either

Their strategy is to dehumanized you into a number then you'll grit your teeth & accept any treatment. & if you don't & you complain they threaten you with the no- fly list
I don't get that with easyJet so much. Ryan Air definitely, but at least EJ has allocated setting now
 

Geyzer Soze

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Aug 16, 2010
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I don't get that with easyJet so much. Ryan Air definitely, but at least EJ has allocated setting now
Do they? For free?

Last time I flew with them (EasyJet) you had to pay 15£ per passenger to choose your seats. Which we declined to do. So they went and split us up from our kids (8 and 10) putting us all in different parts of the aircraft. Which you can respond and say well we had the choice to pay for allocated seats, but on general principle i don't want to do that, and by the tiome we realised that we were to be split from the kids it was too late.

On speaking to a friend who is a cabin crew trainer for Virgin, she was absolutely horrified by that. Separate children from their parents on a flight, what is likely to happen in any emergency situation? You'll have the mother clawing and climbing over other passengers to get to her children, won't you. And father for that matter. Absolutely ridiculous.

Futher to that, my Mrs flew with them 2 weeks ago, and on passing her boarding passes and passport to the checkin agent in the tunnel, was returned the passport and boarding passes and instructed that she had to put the boarding passes into the passport at the correct place, which is in the photo section of the passport so that it could be easily opened at the right place. The Mrs, quite understandably I think, retorted 'Are you serious?'. To which the checkin agent responded that if she spoke another word and continuted to use sarcasm toward her, that she would find herself on the 'no fly' list?

I was also threatened with the no fly list once in Greece, where we had not printed out an itineray for checkin, and they wanted (and did!) charge us 25£ to print one for us, without which they would not issue a boarding pass. I protested at the larcenous cost, and was informed that if i said another word they would ban me from flying. Admittedly this was about 8 years ago ...
 
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Bobbins

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May 5, 2005
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Ryanair are cancelling a lot of flights due to them mixing up pilot holidays

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41311603

There's a list on their website

https://www.ryanair.com/ie/en/useful-info/help-centre/travel-updates/flight-cancellations7

Bastards. It'd make me VERY reluctant to use them in future, having said that, i've so far managed to avoid having to.

One of the companies on my blacklist tbh - their vile boss was enough for that, let alone their disgusting business practices.
 

Mr.D

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Dec 2, 2014
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Norwegian are the best budget airline I've flown with.
Air Berlin were good also.
I've yet to encounter a problem with easyjet.
Got a stag trip to Benidorm next April and the lads are going Ryanair from Stanstead. The easyjet flights ain't out till the end of this month, I think, and am seriously considering fucking the group trip off and flying out on my own on the big orange bird.
 

mightyspur

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Aug 21, 2014
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Do they? For free?

Last time I flew with them (EasyJet) you had to pay 15£ per passenger to choose your seats. Which we declined to do. So they went and split us up from our kids (8 and 10) putting us all in different parts of the aircraft. Which you can respond and say well we had the choice to pay for allocated seats, but on general principle i don't want to do that, and by the tiome we realised that we were to be split from the kids it was too late.

On speaking to a friend who is a cabin crew trainer for Virgin, she was absolutely horrified by that. Separate children from their parents on a flight, what is likely to happen in any emergency situation? You'll have the mother clawing and climbing over other passengers to get to her children, won't you. And father for that matter. Absolutely ridiculous.

Futher to that, my Mrs flew with them 2 weeks ago, and on passing her boarding passes and passport to the checkin agent in the tunnel, was returned the passport and boarding passes and instructed that she had to put the boarding passes into the passport at the correct place, which is in the photo section of the passport so that it could be easily opened at the right place. The Mrs, quite understandably I think, retorted 'Are you serious?'. To which the checkin agent responded that if she spoke another word and continuted to use sarcasm toward her, that she would find herself on the 'no fly' list?

I was also threatened with the no fly list once in Greece, where we had not printed out an itineray for checkin, and they wanted (and did!) charge us 25£ to print one for us, without which they would not issue a boarding pass. I protested at the larcenous cost, and was informed that if i said another word they would ban me from flying. Admittedly this was about 8 years ago ...
You get allocated a seat for free, but have the option to pay to get a "better" seat, i.e. closer to the front.

With regards to the other issues you have mentioned, I can't comment as they have always been fine when I flew. Sounds like you and your missus are just trouble makers....
 

mttgary

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Oct 25, 2004
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You get allocated a seat for free, but have the option to pay to get a "better" seat, i.e. closer to the front.

With regards to the other issues you have mentioned, I can't comment as they have always been fine when I flew. Sounds like you and your missus are just trouble makers....


Statistics show that the further back you are -- the more likely you are to survive a plane crash!!!!
 

Geyzer Soze

Fearlessly the idiot faced the crowd
Aug 16, 2010
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Statistics show that the further back you are -- the more likely you are to survive a plane crash!!!!
Yeah but the important part is that you get out quicker the other end in the unlikely event you survive the flight ...
 

jezz

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Holiday mix up or pilots leaving for Norwegian airlines?
Who knows
 

mark87

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Nov 29, 2004
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My cousin is a pilot for Ryanair, I'll give him a load of verbal for those affected by this (y)
 

Marty

Audere est farce
Mar 10, 2005
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Holiday mix up or pilots leaving for Norwegian airlines?
Who knows
Little of column A, little of column B.

I've only flown Ryanair once, Stanstead to Norway. I'll stick with Norwegian from now on, thank you very much.
 

Wheeler Dealer

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A £40 flight looks great when it pops up, but then you have credit card booking fee, extra cost for seat, £8 for a tub of Pringles and £5 for a warm can of Amstel., can opener provided to help you squeeze into the tiny amount of room for your seat and never enough room in the overhead storage for bag, so this has to be wedged into the minute space where you place your feet. to cap it all off, you'll likely to have 25 or more fat, ugly, smelly, gobby and pissed up birds on a hen do in the seats surrounding you.
 

WalkerboyUK

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Jun 8, 2009
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Yeah but the important part is that you get out quicker the other end in the unlikely event you survive the flight ...

That depends on where you're flying to/from.
A lot of airports allow you to disembark from the rear of the plane as well as the front.
 

Dougal

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Jun 4, 2004
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Can't stand the bastards but they've pretty much sewn up the route to the west of Ireland so there's very little choice but to use them or head to the wrong end of the country.
 
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