Originally Posted by
pacer142
I'd disagree, you do if you know what you're letting yourself in for (remember to read the T&Cs etc) and you get a very cheap flight. You're only on it for an hour in most cases so the quality of the ride isn't all that important. Just make sure you have insurance in the event of a cancellation stranding you.
Don't assume you're getting full service, but then for 25 quid return including taxes (which is what my trip to Hamburg cost two weekends ago) what, to be fair, do you expect? (I wouldn't pay them several hundred quid for a short-notice flight - that's what the full service airlines are for).
Neil
Hamburg??? Ryanair doesn't fly to Hamburg. Ryanair flies to the city of Lübeck. Calling it Hamburg is not just like saying STN is a London airport when it's miles away, it's like flying to Liverpool and calling it Manchester or like flying to Glasgow and calling it Edinburgh. (Sorry. Pet hate. I was born in Lübeck).
As for paying £25 - that's only if you book at the right time. I've paid up to £200 for a Ryanair flight (I had no alternative that day). And you get the same poor service regardless of whether you pay £20 or £200.
And as for "you're only on it for an hour..." - a lot can go wrong in an hour! I once needed medical assistance on a Ryanair flight and the cabin crew were hopeless. And if there was a real emergency I would not trust their cabin crew to cope - in many cases they don't even share a language with their passengers; I've been on flights where none of the cabin crew knew any English beyond the basics that are required to sell cups of coffee, and where the safety announcements were completely unintelligible (I note that safety announcements are now pre-recorded...)
I am very reluctant to fly Ryanair these days, and am no longer booking my elderly mother on Ryanair flights. I just don't trust them to take care of her.