Originally Posted by
thebigben
Alternatively:
- Stansted is one of the worst airports I've been in.
- Ryanair's IRROP handling doesn't adhere to my risk tolerance levels.
- They never fly where or when I want to because they just get the last scraps as a LCC.
- BoB is an even worse ripoff than on BA.
- Once you add the reasonable extras (priority stuff and an actual HBO allowance) it costs the same or more as BA, and Ryanair sure isn't giving me status if I fly with them often.
If the OP's view was somewhat rose-tinted, yours is dramatically tilted in the other direction.
I use Ryanair when schedules and fares mesh. Probably a couple of times a month. I long since lost any visceral love-hate relationship with airlines (except TP, but that's a long story
).
- Ryanair BOB is slick: works well. I feel oddly happier buying stuff on FR - I guess because the BA version represent a downgrade in the service I was used to, on top of which it doesn't seem to work very well.
- Ryanair routes and schedules clearly don't suit everyones travel patterns. Some suit mine, travelling from the Manchester.
- If Ryanair can get me directly, non-stop to Porto or Dublin at a reasonable fare then I'd be crazy not to take up the offer. And they often can.
- Even after paying for the little extras that make the flights more comfortable, I'm usually quite significantly quids in with a Ryanair ticket. If I'm not, I'm with them only for the convenience of schedule and non-stop service.
- And, touch wood, the longest delay I've had was two hours at Porto. It wasn't handle at all well, but there you are. My ticket was less than £20.