Ryanair

[classic33]

No, I meant nicking the luggage was the baggage handler's job.

As a ex baggage handler I can say that I never nicked anyones luggage.

As for the suggestion that people pay for what they use. Why does a person weighing 10 stone pay the same fare as somebody twice their weight?

With charging for passing water comes the hazard that some may try to "hold it" until they land. If they fail then the plane would have to be removed from service. Highly corrosive is urine.

 

[Fnaar]

With charging for passing water comes the hazard that some may try to "hold it" until they land. If they fail then the plane would have to be removed from service. Highly corrosive is urine.

Yes, "urine" real trouble if that happens... a ha ha ha ha ha ...er...

 

[threebikesmcginty]

This isn't really Ryanair more the Irish airports. One time I was flying back from Dublin after a booze fueled stay at Dromoland Castle (sat with Jackie Charlton in the bar at one point - nice man, close personal friend, etc!! ), anyway returning home I got to the airport and when I got to security I was asked for my passport and then I remembered I'd packed it in my case and had already checked it in - I explained this to the guard who just said "aah feckit, it'll be alright!" and let me through!

 

[HLaB]

This isn't really Ryanair more the Irish airports. One time I was flying back from Dublin after a booze fueled stay at Dromoland Castle (sat with Jackie Charlton in the bar at one point - nice man, close personal friend, etc!! ), anyway returning home I got to the airport and when I got to security I was asked for my passport and then I remembered I'd packed it in my case and had already checked it in - I explained this to the guard who just said "aah feckit, it'll be alright!" and let me through!

Its not that slack now One of my first times through the airport the metal detector went off on me and then my Irish mate (or was it him then me ) the guards flocked to him, when nobody came to me I paused momentarily and just kept on walking.

 

[gbb]

Whereas if you fly Airfrance, the fare is so steep you may really end up worthless

Anyway, because RA is the only good way to fly from Yorkshire to Limoges, a huge number of ex-pats and people I know use them regularly and frequently on the short flights from E. Mids and Liverpool. It has proved an excellent way to travel with the possibility of paying extremely little. The puntuality is remarkable (I often meet people at Limoges airport) in fact they are usually early and if you have only hand baggage is about as quick to leave the aircraft as it is getting off a train.

They are now very strict about hand baggage being within the size/weight allowance which is great if you are pig-sick of fellow passengers who think they can take what they like and fill up all the overhead locker space to avoid paying for their suitcases.

Of course the somewhat draconian way in which they adhere to their stated terms and conditions undoubtedly does upset people who make human errors and so they get criticised.

My cousin who owns an aviation safety consultancy has assured me that Ryanair standards of safety are equal to the best in the business. Mind you, he was an RAF Phantom pilot so his ideas of safety won't include comfort!

I thought everyone was now!!
Unhappily i flew with EasyJet to Madrid...my first with one of the budget airlines..it was an eye opener Like a bloody cattle market getting on the plane.
At the check in, i was 3 kilos overwieght....(work kit etc)
'i'm sorry sir, you'll have to pay the excess'
'No problem...how much and where'
' i wish all our customers were as understanding as you sir'

The only thing that concerned me was having paid, would i have to queue again ...'oh no sir, just come to the front and we'll put you straight through'

I did (kindly) remark, pointlessly i knew, that at 10.5 stone i weighed possibly half as much as some of the people in the queue, yet still had to pay for a measly 3 kilos. The reply was sympathetic of course....

 

[threebikesmcginty]

i knew, that at 10.5 stone i weighed possibly half as much as some of the people in the queue, yet still had to pay for a measly 3 kilos. The reply was sympathetic of course....

Like "do you want to get on or not you skinny feck" you mean?

 

[classic33]

Yes, "urine" real trouble if that happens... a ha ha ha ha ha ...er...

Seriously they are in trouble. The plane would have to be removed from service. That is for all body fluid spillages.
See:
http://www.jap100a-01.mod.uk/Jap(d)/JAP 100A 01 Chap 3.5.htm

 

[Fnaar]

Ewww!
Yes, I can see the potential damage to structure through acidity...
On of my better chuffs could do about the same

 

[bonj2]

[I'm] a ex baggage handler

then I suggest you give everyone on the forum who's ever took a bike on a plane a tenner for repairs and replacement components.

 

[dellzeqq]

Ah yes Treviso - it only took the tourists a long time to get to Venice!! There are far quicker ways for those prepared to walk or get the local bus to the centre of town instead of jumping on the coach outside the terminal. I lived in Padova so like Paulus it was more convenient anyway.

The odd thing is that Treviso is a great place. Were it not for its proximity to Venice it could be a really popular holiday town. Had we arrived at a sensible time we'd have gone in to town and sat in the main square and had a pizza and searched out some of my favourite sculptor's work.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

....and searched out some of my favourite sculptor's work.

Ahh - that's Anish Kapoor IIRC

 

[classic33]

then I suggest you give everyone on the forum who's ever took a bike on a plane a tenner for repairs and replacement components.

Explain why please. We're not all the same.

Or is this a new scheme, thought up by yourself, to get money out of someone else. As your a van driver, you should pay everybody cut up by a van £10, for each time they've been cut up by a van

 

[Mayniac]

I sat on a wet seat on a plane once. They just swapped the pad and we were off.

Perhaps bucket seats would be better than stools.