Easyjet vs. Ryanair?
Apr 15, 2010 | 12:16 pm
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Well, the only problem is that EasyJet hardly goes anywhere---mostly to/from UK. Too bad there's no real competition with RyanAir. I'm looking forward (joke) to using the pay toilets this summer if this is really happening. I don't think such a policy would fly in US (just like Spirit Airlines may not get to implement the carry-on bag fee).
Apr 15, 2010 | 12:40 pm
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Apr 15, 2010 | 2:56 pm
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Apr 16, 2010 | 5:11 am
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Push the dates out to May and there should be better availability.
To call them limited is a bit silly. They are the largest UK owned airline, and operate routes all over Europe.
Though it does seem Ryanair are doing rather better in the information stakes at the moment. The following link gives you all the info you would need to know about the current disruptions and is being kept up to date. Easyjet and BA aren't doing quite as well with theirs.
http://www.ryanair.com/en/notices/go...ICELAND_ASH-GB
Neil
Apr 16, 2010 | 6:29 am
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In any case if you look at their routemap it is clear that many of their flights don't touch UK soil
Apr 16, 2010 | 6:55 am
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Push the dates out to May and there should be better availability.
To call them limited is a bit silly. They are the largest UK owned airline, and operate routes all over Europe.
http://www.ryanair.com/en/notices/go...ICELAND_ASH-GB
Neil
To call them limited is a bit silly. They are the largest UK owned airline, and operate routes all over Europe.
http://www.ryanair.com/en/notices/go...ICELAND_ASH-GB
Neil
Apr 16, 2010 | 12:02 pm
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Granted, EasyJet (43 million passengers/year) is substantial. I'm just frustrated (pissed) because EasyJet doesn't have as many routes/frequencies as RyanAir (58 million passengers/year) with flights within Italy itself and to/from Italy from southern France. So now, I will get to experience first hand RyanAir's legendary (joke) customer treatment. Already, just from the tone of the RyanAir email confirmations, I can see how this airline seeems to view customers as, say, an elementary teacher views misbehaving students.
Apr 16, 2010 | 7:42 pm
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Apr 17, 2010 | 3:49 pm
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No, I'll take the Ryan Air flight---at least it goes there.
Apr 18, 2010 | 7:16 am
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FR fly to more 'normal' airports than legacy airlines. Just take a look at http://www.ryanair.com/en/cheap-flight-destinations
And for the record, Bologna = Bologna (BLQ).
Apr 18, 2010 | 9:48 am
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Old chestnuts are sometimes more in evidence than you might think ... and if MOL has managed to sweet-talk BLQ into hosting him, well good on him! I think you STILL need to check that the airport is where you think it is, after all, from many inflight tracking screens I've seen on aircraft, Stansted is actually somewhere in Kent!
And I believe that there is an airport - without much commercial traffic - called LONDON Oxford! ^
And I believe that there is an airport - without much commercial traffic - called LONDON Oxford! ^
Apr 18, 2010 | 11:08 am
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It is, but it's not STN. It's the other one. Have you ever been to Newport?
Make that a 
. And neither EZ nor FR uses it, so I'm not sure why it's mentioned in this thread.
And I believe that there is an airport - without much commercial traffic - called LONDON Oxford! ^
. And neither EZ nor FR uses it, so I'm not sure why it's mentioned in this thread.