Think that about sums it up! Typical of Panorama/Dispatchers type program. If Ryanair pilots were not given enough time to do flight planning (even though this is in reality a dispatchers job?) then FR planes would be falling out the sky left, right and centre surley

I'm also still about confused, about all these so called *hidden* charges Ryanair puts on people. I find there website to be quite detailed in all the charges and in no way tried to hide them. I made some dummy booking, I put in some random days in November (11/12th) and a return to Madrid.

A comparison is difficult because FR use STN wheras BA use LHR, but Ryanair was £45 (of which £10 was paying with my Mastercard) and BA was £131.50 (of which £4.50 was mastercard fee). So an £86.50 fare difference. Now I don't know about you, but I only fly with hand luggage usually, i always check in online. Now BA have moved to giving out bird food on board...

Also, Visa electron cards, in the UK at least are usually issued by a number of banks (e.g. I have a halifax one just for buying Ryanair and easyJet tickets).

I for one find it best to use whatever airline takes you to where you want to go! If I want to go London to Paris, i'll use BA to take me to CDG and not Ryanair who take me to Beauvais! If I want to go to Madrid from the UK i take a direct flight, not 3 stops via Germany just to use LH.

(Prepares to be flamed )