Originally Posted by
Mizter T
Ignore everyone who says that Ryanair is fine - it's a living hell, the FA's beat you, spit on you, often force you to cower on the floor just for kicks, cover your head with a sack for the rest of the flight if you so much as look at them the wrong way, whilst in theory you can use the toilet in practice you're not actually allowed to, most of the time they don't bother to pressurise the cabin these days, it's rare for the cabin lights to ever be turned on even on night flights so take a torch, at some airports they don't use the stairs any more and you now have to climb up and down a ladder (watch out for the wooden ladders with broken or missing rungs), the pilots often aren't qualified properly (fake certificates from the internet abound), and the ex-Belarusian air force pilots consider themselves above the petty considerations of air traffic control, the fuel used is often dodgy having been obtained through siphoning off oil pipelines in the Niger delta, hold baggage is routinely stripped of the metal pull tabs on zips (taken away to be melted down for recycling into drinks cans), and bags that have been in the hold are often found to be quite highly radioactive, likely a result of the uranium smuggling that the crews often partake in. All in all it's little wonder than most Ryanair passengers suffer a nervous breakdown after flying with them.
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One reason I am unlikely to fly RyanAir again is they will not rebook on other carriers when things go wrong and sometimes delays can go on for more than a day when things go really wrong. Legacy airlines will generally rebook me, minimizing the likelihood of a very long delay. Otherwise Ryan are fine for short flights when you don't need to take much with you, IMO.