swee'pea99
Legendary Member
Ok, well, from the top...In the context of a plane trip you're getting for free - £90 or so won't even cover the cost of processing you through two airports twice, let alone fuel, plane maintenance and insurance, issuing a ticket, contingencies and profit for the airline, or even the environmental cost of your cheap flights or the disruption and suffering to the poor buggers who live near the airports - £30 to give you back glasses which probably cost ten times that seems like a bargain.
If you want to pay less for your own forgetfulness, start paying what the basic service actually costs.
It wasn't £90, it was £114, but either way, if you pay for something, you're not getting it for free.
Ryanair made profits of $1.4 billion last year, so I guess they covered their costs pretty comfortably.
Environmental impact and the suffering of locals are, however regrettable, totally unrelated issues.
The price of the glasses is nothing like ten times the cost, and is in any case totally irrelevant.
£35 for 'shipping' a small item that will actually cost £3.35 to post doesn't strike me as much of a bargain.
I expect to pay for my forgetfulness. I just don't think I should pay £35.
And what I pay for 'the basic service' has absolutely nothing to do with it.
I think that covers everything.