FR6674 - delays and turbulence
Dec 26, 2014, 10:10 am
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FR6674 - delays and turbulence
Wow - first of all I quite like Ryanair - low cost flights with convenient schedules to places I want to go.
FR6673 LPL-NOC on December 23rd and virtually flawless. Came back today on FR6674 - inbound arrived 20 minutes early. So far great. Then we get what is rare -SNOW. Anyway they cleared the runway and deiced so we took off about 30 minutes late. Anyway a few minutes into the flight, some turbulence followed by a plummet. (probably on acouple of meters) and loads started screaming. Captain comes on and says "Cabin Crew be seated". Quite a few were praying!! Appropriate as we had just taken off from NOC as Knock is one of the most famous Catholic shrines in Europe.
Rest of flight was fine -but poor old Ryanair - could not do their usual sale of drinks/snacks, gifts etc.
Someone also freaked out about a few drips of water. Purser/lead FA had to reassure them it was only condensation from the AC and was totally normal. I had to reassure a few passengers also.
737-800 aircraft. Did not get the tail number.
FR6673 LPL-NOC on December 23rd and virtually flawless. Came back today on FR6674 - inbound arrived 20 minutes early. So far great. Then we get what is rare -SNOW. Anyway they cleared the runway and deiced so we took off about 30 minutes late. Anyway a few minutes into the flight, some turbulence followed by a plummet. (probably on acouple of meters) and loads started screaming. Captain comes on and says "Cabin Crew be seated". Quite a few were praying!! Appropriate as we had just taken off from NOC as Knock is one of the most famous Catholic shrines in Europe.
Rest of flight was fine -but poor old Ryanair - could not do their usual sale of drinks/snacks, gifts etc.
Someone also freaked out about a few drips of water. Purser/lead FA had to reassure them it was only condensation from the AC and was totally normal. I had to reassure a few passengers also.
737-800 aircraft. Did not get the tail number.
Last edited by GRALISTAIR; Dec 30, 2014 at 3:39 am Reason: airport corrected
Dec 28, 2014, 9:53 am
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...and now we just wait for a few passengers to contact the news to blame FR for this to have happened. It's obvious that there wouldn't be any snow, condensation or turbulence with a more expensive or service minded legacy airline, of course. 
Anyway, thanks for posting. And happy to see you made it back in one piece.
Anyway, thanks for posting. And happy to see you made it back in one piece.
Dec 30, 2014, 3:39 am
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CORRECTED Original post - LPL-NOC-LPL not MAN sorry!
ROTFLOL- you are so correct or the ubiquitous "Thats it, I am never flying Ryanair again!" It is all their fault we had bad weather and a storm system over Ireland.
Agreed - although we have flown FlyBe in those Q-400 Dash 8s MAN-NOC, I do find the schedule and Boeing 737 to be far better and price perhaps a little cheaper. Also, the parking at LPL is getting better and the cost a little lower.
Yes they stillhave the 10 Euro departure tax (airport development tax)
...and now we just wait for a few passengers to contact the news to blame FR for this to have happened. It's obvious that there wouldn't be any snow, condensation or turbulence with a more expensive or service minded legacy airline, of course.
Anyway, thanks for posting. And happy to see you made it back in one piece.
Anyway, thanks for posting. And happy to see you made it back in one piece.
It is all their fault we had bad weather and a storm system over Ireland. Yes they stillhave the 10 Euro departure tax (airport development tax)