Ryanair Massive Expansion !!!

On the other thread please Daniel. Interested in your viewpoint.

get on VATSIM and join up for our VA – www.whiteroseva.com – slightly off topic…!!

i’ve just bought microsoft flight sim 2002, gb aport pack and 737 add on… very hard!!!

where do you want my reply on the safety demo? here or on the other thread!!? i was reading it….. 😀

Daniel, I’d be interested to see your input on my safety demo thread. Would you oblige.

I work for the BBC as a camera op and have a long standing appreciation of planes. The closest I get to flying them however is on Microsoft Flight Simulator.

Thanx!! Sorry, just having bit of crappy day at work!!
I mean there are a few points that i do disagree with about the company…. don’t get me wrong!!!
Staffing at STN at the the moment is horrific!! 6 on 1 off….
wot does everyone else do? work for?

mongu- seats are different on 732 and 738… don’t know pitch tho.

Hi Daniel. You have probably noticed that I have big issues with Ryanair’s style of operation which I am sure we will debate but I would just like to add that as a fellow aviation professional I hold you in high regard. Welcome to the forum.

Regards
wys

Daniel84

Hi and welcome to the forum. I agree with you aprtially on this – most of the neg hype about LOCO carriers does seem to be a bit of bandwagon antics. Personally i can do without the flash flair of BA for 2 hours if i half to pay around a quarter of the price – companies like this have opened air travel more to the WORKING CLASS. If i was 10 years older i’d never have been able to afford to fly Iberia from MAN-BCN, and they are still around twice the price of what i paid for my Jet2 flights!

Come on folks, ok i agree with the fact ryanair uses out of town fields which i dont ness agree with, BUT other LOCOs might not adopt the same policy, but as they say – Millions can’t be wrong!

What is the actual seat pitch on Ryanair?

Is it different between the 738 and 732?

Wingflaps…..

Although i agree with your statement about the sandwiches being expensive and the magazines not being there… i find the rest of your little write up on Ryanair absolute ****e.

I am myself Cabin Crew for Ryanair, the youngest one in the company at 18 years old and I am certainly NOT juvenile. If you have done the course for cabin crew then you’d know that there is no room for acting like a kid.

As for your “half missing safety card”, if you would have bothered to watch the saftey demo, you wouldn’t need it.

And as for the seats and legroom, we fly a standard B737-800 with no alterations to the cabin configuration. So why would the seats be smaller than any other airline you would have flown on and leg room is no different to that from when i flew with Brittania.

Granted Ryanair are “no frills, low cost” but you, like the minority that when flying Ryanair decide you want everything for nothing and make my day worse.

Stop jumping on the band wagon.

Wingflaps…..

Although i agree with your statement about the sandwiches being expensive and the magazines not being there… i find the rest of your little write up on Ryanair absolute ****e.

I am myself Cabin Crew for Ryanair, the youngest one in the company at 18 years old and I am certainly NOT juvenile. If you have done the course for cabin crew then you’d know that there is no room for acting like a kid.

As for your “half missing safety card”, if you would have bothered to watch the saftey demo, you wouldn’t need it.

And as for the seats and legroom, we fly a standard B737-800 with no alterations to the cabin configuration. So why would the seats be smaller than any other airline you would have flown on and leg room is no different to that from when i flew with Brittania.

Granted Ryanair are “no frills, low cost” but you, like the minority that when flying Ryanair decide you want everything for nothing and make my day worse.

Stop jumping on the band wagon.

Flew on my first Ryanair daytrip flight on Saturday to Bergamo from Stansted.

I thought very little of Ryanair from my experience with them.

No inflight magazines were handed out, sandwiches are £4 plus from the trolley (didn’t waste my money on their food/drink), half missing safety card (what are you supposed to learn about an emergency from a ripped piece of card?!), cabin crew are too young and juvenile. PLUS, the thing that really chedder cheesed-me off was the seating. Hardly any room for your hips (I’m slim) and when the selfish women in front reclined her seat, I woke up in a startle from having my knees crushed. The cow! You only get about two inches leg room!!! There wasn’t enough room to read a newspaper properly either!

Sorry to moan. But I had to get it out of me.

I’ve got about 6 more return Ryanair flights booked for the next few months with my mates, as FR make daytrips possible at their prices. We are flying to Rome for the weekend this Saturday, and the flight will be even longer!!! Argggghhhhhh

Ryanair aren’t a patch on the traditional airlines. I think they make EasyJet look like saints!

Stewart

Nice one Comet……could’nt have put it better myself. Message to Ryanair…remember Air Florida!

I agree that Ryanair’s schedules are deceptive – they’ll probably call Ostend “Paris North” or something. I’m only half joking!

However it is not Ryanair’s fault that all the jobs have been lost.

The blame for that is with the people responsible for running Sabena etc. What arrogance to take the view that because they were an airline, commerciality did not apply to them!

I admire your stance Comet. The more Ryanair get a foothold in the market (selling cheap seats that then cost you a fortune in train fares to get to the city you actually wanted to be in!) the more our decent airlines will be under pressure to survive. If you got a ferry from Calais to Dover would you accept it dropping you off 50 miles away from Dover? How are Ryanair allowed to mis-sell like this?

I’d rather do without than use a budget airline

I think that Ryanair’s decision to fly to Oostende (the correct name for “Ostend”) stinks. So many people have lost their jobs in the Belgian aviation industry because of the loss of Sabena and then Delsey/VG, bloody Ryanair taking passengers from proper airlines because folk seem to think that cheap/crap/no service is for some reason better than dearer/reliable/good service really annoys me. I would rather not fly to Belgium at all than lower myself to fly in on cheap crap like Ryanair. I for one will always be loyal to proper Belgian carriers like SN Brussels and VLM than defect and give my valuable custom to those who do not deserve it. What about the dire treatment handed out by Ryanair to those people who had bookings on buzz from Bournemouth, only to find that their flights will no longer be operating? Or those who through no fault of their own will lose their jobs? Too many jobs have gone from the aviaiton industry since September 11th.

I flew with Ryanair in 1997 , first to Prestwick then to Dublin, no problems then, now perhaps Mr O’Leary is getting to big for his boots?

How about easyjet taking over Ryanair and then dispensing with O’Learys services…………. nah! it’d probably cost them to much(getting rid of O’Leary that is)

Dave

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My Trips with Ryanair in July/August 2000 to the Emerald Isle – A/c B732 EI-CJI outdound and EI-CJF bak

:confused: I’m gonna be flying Ryanair next month from Stansted to Strasbourg and after reading your posts, cant say I’m really looking forward to it!

Flown the easyJet nee Go-fly service from NCL to STN last month and found everything impeccable apart from the delay outbound (that was due to the holdups at STN if you can remember – when they blamed all delays on staff not getting to work because of the weather).

I’d love to hear some Ryanair reports from anyone if you have any :p

Cheers,

LGKR

All that cost cutting yet such vast golden handshakes to management. Surely it’s not too difficult to see where the accountants axe should be directed.