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Oh I don't know about that... I swore off Ryanair after one bad experience too many, around 2013, and have managed to avoid them ever since. I've intentionally
by gruturo 5y ago
Oh I don't know about that... I swore off Ryanair after one bad experience too many, around 2013, and have managed to avoid them ever since. I've intentionally bought more expensive tickets from Lufthansa and Swissair (iirc) where Ryanair would have been cheaper - and it was my own money, not business travel where I could claim the expense back.
I don't see myself ever using them again - barring hypothetical scenarios where I desperately needed to go somewhere and they were only airline flying there.
And they lost more than 1 person's business - I've gladly "upgraded" my travel companions on 3 occasions so far, paying either their full ticket or price difference, so we could fly together on anything-but-ryanair.
I keep reading (possibly sensationalized) news pieces about their latest cost saving measures like banning employees from charging their phones at work, and my disgust reinforces my intention to never have anything to do with them.
- ubermonkey 5y agoI have the sense that being a "captive" customer to a single carrier, or two carriers at most, is a predominately American problem. Here in Houston -- a huge city in the middle of the country -- it is far, far easier to fly United than any other carrier for any long-haul route. Southwest is an option for close US locations, and that's great, but United is what you're using to go to either coast. Sure, there ARE other airlines here. There are LOTS of them. But if you want to go to the UK on something other than United, you better be going to wherever that other carrier goes, because you won't have a lot of options. (EG, Singapore flies direct to Manchester, but that's it. Emirates flies to Dubai nonstop every day, but has no other legs in Houston.) In smaller places, the choices are often starker.