Comments on: Flying for Free

By: richard head

richard head — Wed, 31 May 2006 11:39:36 +0000

You get what you pay for.

Ryanair took over where Aeroflot erm, crashed.

They have the most unfriendly, dumb, tacky, desparate and nasty service of any industry let alone one the relies on safety.

But, you get what you pay for.

By: Derek Organ

Derek Organ — Thu, 11 May 2006 01:44:18 +0000

Ryanair employees are actually treated very well supposely with a low turnover of staff. Not so fond of unions though.

Interesting to see Ryanair get mentioned here.

They are what they are or you get exactly what it says on the tin. its a cheap airline and they have mastered this market perfectly.

Besides charging for extra stuff like food etc i don't see any hidden costs at all. So i don't see how they have 'one of the worst reputations in the UK.'

From a business perspective it has one of the most inovative and radical business models in an industry were it isn't easy to think ouside the box.

By: Ben Metcalfe

Ben Metcalfe — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 11:07:00 +0000

As a regular flyer on RyanAir, I can tell you they make SouthWest look premium.

(Apart from the taxes, which they don't keep) RyanAir charge you Â£5 now to put your luggage in the hold, charge you 4% to take your money by credit card, charge you 50p to pay for the provision of airside wheelchairs (regardless of whether you need one or not), etc...

And when you get on EVERYTHING is sponsored - from your headrest through to the saftycard. I don't know whether the rumours their lifejackets are sponsored is true... :)

But seriously if you extraploated RyanAir into a mashup you'd have something that offered you the AJAX interface for free, but charged you to access the data that drives the proposition. Once you'd payed your money youd find every thing that can to be sponsored with adverts. And you'd be forces to pay additional odd charges for functiaonality you may -- or may not -- want to use!

By: patrick h. lauke

patrick h. lauke — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 21:43:19 +0000

ryanair has got one of the worst reputations in the UK. not sure they’re a good poster-boy for anything…

By: Chris Campbell

Chris Campbell — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 20:52:53 +0000

A number of Business 2.0 articles were released on April 1. That article combined with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryanair makes me think it wasn't a joke.

By: Lukewarm Earthcrawler

Lukewarm Earthcrawler — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 11:04:30 +0000

the for the document on CNN Money site reads this: “Fly for free - April 1, 2006”. Take hint…</p> </article> <article> <h1>By: James McCarthy</h1> <p>James McCarthy — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 21:30:18 +0000</p> <p>While they might have the lowest airfare I think you will find that the "taxes" they charge make up for it.</p> <p>I don't know actually what the taxes really are but I'm sure theyre not that much, not at liest for the small airports Ryanair uses.</p> <p>And theyre airports are allways miles away from civilisation(they also operate the buses going to & from cities, often costing more than the flight).</p> </article> <article> <h1>By: Carl Fredrik Wettermark</h1> <p>Carl Fredrik Wettermark — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 20:48:58 +0000</p> <p>Ryanair is a kick-ass company, I fly with them to Paris and Bruxelles from Stockholm a weekly basis for â‚¬10 return trip. There was a BBC documentary recently though showing they had some safety issues. Training for onboard staff was lacking, and they seem to work extremely long shifts.</p> <p><a href="http://www.bizbuzzmedia.com/blogs/flight_international/archive/2006/02/14/1281.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.bizbuzzmedia.com/blogs/flight_international/archive/2006/02/14/1281.aspx</a></p> </article> </main></body></html>