I must seem like a Ryanair cheerleader but I’m not,indeed I’m infuriated that their online check-in cannot be accessed more than 2 days prior to flight meaning you have to pay check in fee if you can’t get online while you’re away.They’re almost impossible to contact other than online as well.Nevertheless,I think this constant drip of criticism of lo-costs (with veiled insinuations over safety) is outrageous from a group who benefit more than any other from an ability to pursue our hobby at prices a tenth of what they’d have been with mainstream airlines if they’d continued to rule the roost.Someone in the industry said the other day,when a watchdog criticised the “extra costs” with Ryanair etc,that people still don’t grasp the idea of the lo-cost business model and insist on comparing it with other modes of travel.How true!……..but what a shame enthusiasts in the very area concerned are guilty as well.Statistically,Ryanair have the best on-time record in Europe and NO European lo-cost has yet lost an a/c.I can think of one or two “majors” who have in recent times.Finally,I’d have to add that as far as I know EI have become a loco themselves on their Europe network for the very reason they can’t survive the competition AND are serving so called weird places like Poznan for one.
Barry
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