Ryanair Maintenance Online and You Still Pay
Wednesday June 24, 2009
Was given a heads up on this from About.com's Guide to Spain Travel, Damian Corrigan, who wrote:
Passengers traveling on Thursday with Ryanair, the airline everyone loves to hate, should be sure to check in by 6pm on Wednesday (British time, 7pm in Europe) in order to avoid paying Ryanair's new 40 euro airport check-in fee (for each passenger), due to a planned closure of the company's website.
The site will be closed from Wednesday evening until 5am on Thursday morning (6am in Europe)...
If you think because the site will be down for online check-in that you'll get a break at the airport with them, you'd be sadly mistaken.
If you would like a primer on Ryanair's long list of fees, and some comparisons regarding luggage fees on airlines around the world you can check out If You Think That Airlines in the United States Charge Crazy Fees..., in which I mention our Guide to Spain's in depth Q and A with Ryanair and their extensive fees for passengers.
And Damian's coverage of Ryanair's site shutdown to online checkin.
The site will be closed from Wednesday evening until 5am on Thursday morning (6am in Europe)...
If you think because the site will be down for online check-in that you'll get a break at the airport with them, you'd be sadly mistaken.
If you would like a primer on Ryanair's long list of fees, and some comparisons regarding luggage fees on airlines around the world you can check out If You Think That Airlines in the United States Charge Crazy Fees..., in which I mention our Guide to Spain's in depth Q and A with Ryanair and their extensive fees for passengers.
And Damian's coverage of Ryanair's site shutdown to online checkin.
Ryan Air is the worst business I have ever dealt with in my life. I felt assaulted and robbed by them. I will never use them again and will warn everyone I know to avoid them at all costs.
I now do everything in my power to avoid flying Ryanair – I resent paying to be abused at every turn.
i am disgusted having to pay 80 euro on return journey from gerona to doncaster we checked in online and got boarding passes thinking they covered return journey also and so did a lot of other people we are pensioners and couldnt afford this extra 80 euro each we will never fly with ryanair again it is all a con
After having printed out all that we could web-site permitting, we arrived at Luqa (Malta) to discover the 40 Euro fee for no boarding pass for one of my children that had to get back to the UK before we returned.
Now *Seriously* you cannot under current legislation at this time check in your own luggage!
It MUST be screened, it MUST be weighed (otherwise how will you know that you`re under or at the 15k limit set by *Crime-air* ? )
You therefore are NOT checking in, in the way a walk on passenger would, Walk-ons have only hand luggage or nothing at all.
So despite *Crime-Airs* demands that you MUST check in online, you simply are not doing so in reality, its one huge CON!
What would they do if people refused to line up to get their bags weighed ect, stating “But your online service says I have checked in!..
But no, you STILL line up, you still get your bags weighed, and guess what those same bags are also scanned, so what part in this stupidity is my online check in valid?
It is therefore utterly ‘Disproportionate’ to charge such high fees for what is not a travel ticket, a small piece of paper that tells you the time, the gate and flight number.
The boarding pass does not give you the right to fly, your purchased ticket and your identification at this juncture are the things that give you the right to fly on crime-air, not the 40 Euro boarding pass!
So as you may gather I and my family will never fly with that airline, I am taking this up with my MP and I will be tweeting, blogging ect about this un-mentionable airline and its very SHARP practices.
DO check out other airlines, do add up the costs, and be mildly surprised that for the same, a tiny bit more or less you can fly with a scheduled airline, get fed! And get treated well
I flew back with Air Malta for just £10.00 more than the so called cheaper *Crime-air*
I got a hot meal, a bottle of wine, and wasn’t inundated with scratch card purchases and lottery ticket delights!
I got stung – along with dozens of others yesterday – by the ‘boarding pass’ scam. Has anybody had any luck with recovering their money? If so, how? I will never use this airline again. It doesn’t take a genius to work out that if you can catch out 50 passengers per flight with the 40 Euro boarding pass penalty, that can reduce the cost of the flight by 10 Euro for ALL the passengers on board.
I surprise, how Ryanair can be called cheap airline as the total cost for trip with them at the end will cost even more then with so called regular airlines.