Why Ryanair Isn't As Bad As You Think - And Also Why It Is!
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- Опубликовано: 28 май 2024
- At the end of 2022, we put out a video on our main channel titled “7 Reasons Why Flying Ryanair Isn't As Bad As You Think.” A few weeks later, there was a companion article titled “Counterpoints: Five Reasons To Avoid Ryanair,” just to balance things out. Amusingly, highlighting the good parts of Rynair’s service resulted in some people accusing us of being paid to make the airline look good. But others, responding to the counterpoints, labelled it as a hit piece! Well, we’ve learned that there’s truly no pleasing the internet on certain topics!
At the same time, we thought it would be good to use this video as an opportunity to place these two opposing viewpoints side by side to give a better picture of low cost travel for passengers.
Some points in today’s video will exclusively relate to Ryanair, but - as many have pointed out with our Ryanair content - many points are also relevant to other low-cost carriers!
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On the seats points, I will say, while the seats are uncomfortable, I love that they don't recline, cos people don't care about the people they have behind, so I rather not fight. Also, more middle seats are assigned randomly cos very few people will actually pay to get them assigned
I sincerely believe that there is a special place in hell reserved for self-centred people who recline their airline seats in cattle class.
@@Dave_Sissonluckily for you, a few airlines are introducing new back shell (or partial back shell in the form of Qatar’s new seats) in Economy Class. Funnily enough, these replace the modern day economy seats that are so upright you feel like you’re leaning forwards when not reclined.
I once forgot to check-in online on time (I tried around 1hour and 50 minutes before the flight) and the lady at the desk told me I didn't need to pay the fee, I was probably was really lucky to find her!
I’m glad to see Ryanair getting some defense and not only negative feedback as personally I think it’s a fantastic airline, but one always needs to keep in mind that one gets what one pays for
True that. If you know to avoid all those upselling tactics, you're able to travel with them for very little money. Additionally, many of the extras like seat reservations are far less expansive than with legacy carriers.
I agree. It's good if you want to go somewhere cheap but not for comfort and luxury. Basically, you get what you pay for.
Me too. I've never felt any difference that's worth mentioning between any of the airlines I flew with, including full service and low cost carriers, but my pocket surely did. Thanks, Ryanair, for allowing me to travel more often than I otherwise could!
I love Ryanair for short distance flights. They fly on time. It's like a bus. You all get in the plane, doors close and off you go. Not waiting for late passengers, wonderful! The seats are OK and with my 2 mtr. lenghts I'm happy they don't recline. If I need more luxury, I pay more. What more do I need?
I bet the reason middle seats are most often dealt to passengers who choose "random" selection is because passengers who choose their own seats pick aisle or window seats first, leaving only the middle seats open to the rest.
You get what you pay for.
If you fail to read terms & conditions when booking then may the lord have mercy...
Well said
Those seats are ok for short and medium-length flights. But on a 4 hour+ flight from East Midlands to Heraklion, I found it pretty uncomfortable by the end.
Just started using the Ryanair Liverpool to Madrid service (Easyjet stopped flying the route). 6 flights so far and, tbh, they are really quite good. They are very clear about what you do and don't get depending on what you pay and the cabin crew are excellent. It's cheap too, important for a family of five!
They give you what you pay for. If you want a more comfortable flight then just pay extra for either a legroom seat or just pay extra to go with a full service carrier.
Awesome video!
I have flown with Ryanair many times. Only expect what you actually pay for on Ryanair. Its an airborne bus service and for customer service forget it. These days its pretty much the same with any airline, not just Ryanair
I flew with Ryanair for the first time in March of this year. The reason I never did before was because I heard they didn't assign seats. When they eventually started doing booking seats online, I knew I'd fly with them eventually. The outbound flight was delayed by about 20 to 30min but it didn't affect me. I had booked a bus to Dublin City centre from the airport through their website but I never got a bus ticket so I had pay for another one outside the airport. I won't be doing that again. I was angry at first that my return flight was delayed because I had a train seat booked to get home from Kerry airport. But I found out it was due to a combination of wintery weather and an air traffic controller strike in France so the delay wasn't Ryanair's fault. I missed my train and had to buy a new ticket and wait 2 hours for the next one. The flights themselves were fine. I enjoyed having a window seat both ways, the planes weren't packed (meaning I happened to have 2 seats to myself on one of them) and the landings were not too hard. That was my experience flying with Ryanair.
One of my nieces is Ryanair cabin crew, based in Dublin. So she regularly flies all over Europe. She hadn't been to Morocco yet when I last spoke to her about places she's flown to even though they do flights from Dublin.
Never been on time with Ryanair, but never absurdly late too. They're safe, and the social media manager is hilarious.
Emissions and the cost savings by selecting an airport far away is offset by the fact you have to take a bus. Once happened to me since I bought tickets to fly from Beauvais (don't tell me it's in Paris). I have to pay for a to-fro ticket on a TGV and switch to a metro to go get the bus to the airport. I spent 4-5 hours traveling just to the airport. Net, it was expensive than if I would've gotten a ticket from a different airline flying point-to-point at the city I live at.
Airline fuel emissions are way bigger than trains and buses.
Ryanair's systems are unwelcoming for older or disabled passengers.
They would rather these less profitable passengers fly with legacy airlines.
Given the odd airport locations and hence additional travel time/cost by train/coach, and the odd times of day they depart/land, it doesnt suit me.
Maybe if you are young and/or dont have much money, and are willing to put up with the above, then its a good buy.
A small note. Ryanair does not exclusively fly to small regional Airports. They also fly to Copenhagen Airport Kastrup, which is the main (and only) International airport for Copenhagen.
T hey also fly yo AMS, BRU and Athens
You are right to say that its not only RyanAir! I added a luggage on my Wizzair flight and the price more than tripled ... So maybe you could do a video about other low costs in EU as well? And about the flight times they have, you have to take in account that if you fly at odds times, you can lose the money for one or even two days of logging, if you dont want to sleep on a bench until 14:00 the next day ....
During the height of Covid they were one of the very few airlines still flying, allowed me to do essential trips where otherwise be impossible.
I used to be a cabin crew member for Ryanair and I never had flights scheduled in the middle of the night. Never. I was based in Brussels Charleroi and Dusseldorf Weeze.
I've flown only once in Ryanair since I don't live in Europe (I'm from Brazil). In the end I sort of regretted getting Ryanair. I arrived from Brazil through Heathrow and had to get a bus all the way to Stansted + luggage allowance. Luckily, Ciampino airport in Italy is as far as FCO from city centre, just less transport options. On the way back to Heathrow the same issue, and since there was a fairly long delay time, I had to buy myself a sandwich both times. All in all, if I had bought a ticket from BA straight from Heathrow to whatever airport in Rome, the additional BA price nearly compensated all other costs (transport + luggage + meal, as it would included in the ticket) and with far less stress.
But I do understand that it is an excellent option for who uses air transport regularly in Europe, just need to make a lot of research first and need to be very aware of crap advertisment.
Didn't you notice that the Ryanair flight was leaving from a different airport?
EssyJet’s staff are more friendly and less snobbish. Good and fair review from simple flying.
Korean here, I've only heard of Ryanair with all those hard landing videos, so I assumed it had a poor reputation. But after my friend went to Europe and used Ryanair earlier this year, he praised about Ryanair's incredibly reasonable fare; as mentioned in this video, a Ryanair ticket fare can be as low as 8 pounds, whereas a cheapest ticket of GMP-PUS(about 400km) costs about 40 pounds, 25 at the lowest.
Nice video!
Nice!
I really enjoy Ryanair when I want to fly somewhere cheap. So, it’s worth the money.
I had one of the smoothest landing with Ryanair. Was just one time, but still exist 🤣
Ryanair is a fantastic airline you get what you pay for. I love the unbundling I can manage with under seat bag and don’t care what seat I have therefore it’s cheaper for me and I can go away multiple times a month. Been on Ryanair 9 times this year so far
There point to point services gives regional airports so many routes we would never have access to, the open up regions
Those people who’s main priority is the lowest price have no justification to complain about Ryanair. The old rule applies that in general you get what you pay for, or there’s no such thing as a free lunch. 😂😂
I don’t mind Ryan air at all. Printing out your pass is a pain given you’re traveling but otherwise it’s fine if you’re backpacking around europe. Usually the routes are under 1.5 hours so it’s pretty quick. Anything over 2 hours it starts to get uncomfortable but for $30-$50 you really can’t complain sometimes
There's no pleasing anyone when the topic is Ryanair!
Haha, ample leg room? Are you having a laugh? I basically got cramp the first time I got dragged on Ryanair. Only ever flew with them as a kid with family; never choosing them for myself.
You are right though, they weren't as bad as I thought they would be. They were worse.
Treat Ryanair like a bus and you'll love it. Their seats are not even that bad except if you'll sit on them for more than 5 hours.
I think Ryanair having flights to remote cheaper airports only applies with the bigger cities like London, Paris, Milan etc
Ive flown Ryanair so many times and honestly they arent thag bad at all, my worst experience with them was a 3hr delayed flight but thats it
Do you actually need to print your boarding pass on paper or will the app work? I ask cause i will be in air crossing the Atlantic when check in starts. No way to print the boarding pass.
You don’t need to print it out. All you need to do is check-in and have your boarding pass on your phone,
Ryanair is on time, gets you there and is cheap. No one comes to Ryanair expecting gourmet catering or business class seats.
Once did Manchester > Dublin > Gatwick > Dublin > Shannon > Dublin > Manchester in 1 day for 6 pence (wouldnt get that deal anymore lol) Cheap and cheerful
From what I know, big corporate entities avoid their personnel and associates flying with Ryanair.
This is because the company cover in full the cost of the travel and lodging for their people. The taxi fare for a trip in the middle of the night from a secondary airport to the destination in the capital city, can amount to ten times the amount of the airplane ticket.
Business travel avoid Ryanair.
When travelling with a family, the ticket price isn't the first consideration. An excessively long airport transfer can cause havoc in a group including kids and aged people. Or a airplane trip of moderate length without food and drinks.
I privately flew Ryanair only once, and not by choice; and never as corporate. But many persons find flying Ryanair convenient, so I refrain from giving any suggestion...
As a european 've flown ryanair lots of times, and I think that is a efficinet and cheap of travelling. The flight experince isnt that bad at all
Good video
In all fairness, the old Ryanair Shannon(Barcelona) is a far cry from today’s. Ryanair actually now serve main city airports much more than secondary like they used to.
Funny that's it HQ is in London Stansted it's in Dublin Ireland
You get what you pay for. And only what you pay for.
I have flown Ryanair, years ago, but would find it hard to be tempted to do so again. I still don't trust Boeing (and particularly the 737 MAX), also it's too easy to make an expensive mistake. And a lot of us no longer have working printers.
You don’t need to print out your boarding pass. Just have it on your phone.
@@aleksanderc9573Only on the app, not a PDF (and not from certain airports).
I cannot believe you were paid off by Ryanair to make this hit piece against them XDXD
check in online and take a backpack, at least Ryanair don't cancel flights and take off ontime
It’s true. Ryanair isn’t that bad
People who know nothing about aviation jump on the Ryanair hate bandwagon because memes are "funny"
I can't think of an instance, where something about this being just funny could make it untrue...
When flying Ryanair, what do you expect? Champagne, caviar, lie flat business class seats? You won't find that level of service on any European Airline, even in Business Class!
Maybe basic human dignity and less non-ethical marketing practices....
Ryanair. Never found them cheap and cheerful.
Booking a flight with them is like a mine field.
Make sure all your Ts and I's are crossed and dotted or you are going to pay for it.
Not easy if you are elderly.
They lack inflexibility.
Only good thing about them is they are normally quite punctual.
I fly ryanair since decades now. And they have become so much better in recent years.
10 or 15 years ago I had the impression that the staff gets training to be as rude and unfriendly as possible. A miricale they didnt give you a kick in the ass when you left the aircraft.
Now Ryanair is actually great. You just have to accept the negatives of this video. For me personally this is absolutely fine.
EDIT: RyanAir has probably done more for th e european integration than the european union itself. Being a convinced EU citizen that alone nulls any negative!
One thing I'm surprised you didn't mention about budget airlines and Ryanair is that connections are not only nonexistent, but you might even say ILLEGAL!! Wendover proved that connections actually ADD costs instead of removing them!
Ryanair prices have been going up including the extras.
Prices into Bergerac have noticeably increased
I detest Ryanair with a passion
Still better than SAS, both on staff attitude, incident handling and punctuality.
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Congratulations 👏🎉 this deserves a party!
Awful airline with zero service. I’ve tried them, but never again. I’d rather pay more and get much more.
When are they going to put card readers on the toilet doors?
I don't think that they can actually do that, it would be a legal minefield. If they ever get around to doing that, I will just wee on the floor outside the toilet.
y is this on the Long haul channel
It is as bad as you think. They fly the 737 Max. I fly BA now and trust me I rather pay more for Club Europe.
The 737 max is safe now I've flown it multiple times with Ryanair and there has never been an issue
@@JamCaff They said it was safe before….
No aircraft loss.
That’s cos Lion air and Ethiopian did the fatal testing.
Michael O’Leary went to see Boeing to order a few hundred in their darkest hour to make sure he got them cheap, before he knew that they would be recertifiied to fly again.
In other words, he actually ordered the death plane.
That shows you the Ryanair ethos.