Ryanair
 

Just soliciting a couple opinions if it wouldn't be a bother - I am wanting to book a flight on this airline, but am intimidated by such cheap prices. How is it possible to offer such low fares, and are these airlines safe?

They're like Southwest Airlines is in the US. No-frills, no assigned seats, friendly enthusiastic personnel. Turn those planes around quick. Fly into airports with lower landing fees.<BR><BR>Closest thing to a catch would be their stringent baggage weight limits (15 kg) and 4 euro for each additional kg of baggage (checked or not).<BR><BR>I have flown them with great satisfaction (the prices were lower than the bus rides to get to the airports).<BR><BR>Best wishes,<BR><BR>Rex<BR>

Rex - Thank you. My anxiety (exaggeration) just dropped a couple notches. Usually if it sounds to good to be true it is!

If ONLY Southwest Airline's fare were so cheap!! (frequent SWA flyer)

Hi<BR><BR>I had 24kg + 4kg hand luggage yesterday, and no extra charges.<BR>The flight departed 40 mins late , but arrived 20 mins late.<BR><BR> Peter<BR>

Was this a recent experience? I got the feeling that the baggage chargs were recently added. I experienced no added charges - - don't know how much luggage we had - - surely more than 15 kg each (me and my wife) - - but this was 1999.<BR>

Here's what Ryanair's own web site says:<BR><BR>Ryanair permits 15 kilograms of checked baggage per passenger and one small piece of hand baggage, which must not weigh more than 7kg and be less than   50cm x 35cm x 23cm (20x14x9ins) in dimensions. For the safety and convenience of all passengers, hand baggage must fit underneath the seat or in the overhead compartment. Checked baggage in excess of 15kg will be charged at the rate of &pound;Stg4/?6 (or local currency equivalent) per kilo on all routes. Ryanair does not allow our handling agents or staff discretion in foregoing excess baggage revenue. Given our low fares, and the wide availability of same, we cannot afford to forego due revenues. Therefore if passengers are carrying in excess of their baggage allowance, it is necessary for our staff and handling agents to charge the applicable excess charge.

The euro symbol was converted to a question mark in teh above quote of overweight charges.

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Where are the primary airports for Ryanair, and do they have a website?

BARB - the website is www.ryanair.com<BR><BR>they have airports out of many european cities, many glights originate out of London or Dublin. You can fly just about anywhere in western Europe.

I am surprised about the weight limit since my friend had a bag weighing about 30 kg. It might have been that between the two of us (we checked in together) we were in weight (I had only carry on)<BR><BR>The fares are for real. I don't know how they make money. My fare (round trip - Gatwick to Dublin in spring 99) was only 4 pounds plus tax.

Be aware that RyanAir tends to use minor airports, and some of these can be a considerable distance from the city.

Because of my husband's illness (no relatively fine), I delayed in making my FF flight reservations. I can get to London on USAirways but not Paris, my first destination, nor Aix, my second destination. Will this work with Ryan? Any better suggestions for July 19 or 20?

Ryanair charges low fares generally but sometimes it is not the cheapest.They basically charge as much as they can in raw capitalism terms.Read their conditions of business carefully (at www.ryanair.com) to avoid one of the many extra charges which they try to extract from customers.Note for example that if you are not checked in half an hour before the flight is due to leave they may sell your place to somebody else.

&lt;&lt;I can get to London on USAirways but not Paris, my first destination, nor Aix, my second destination. Will this work with Ryan? Any better suggestions for July 19 or 20?&gt;&gt;<BR><BR>At the risk of coming across as critical, I don't understand what you are asking.<BR><BR>Have you gone to the ryanair.com website and don't understand how to use it? Or are you asking which airport you should choose to get to Aix? or how to connect to the airports that Ryanair uses? Or is there a different question?<BR><BR>Just trying to match an answer to the info you're really wanting.<BR><BR>

I had difficultly with the website because when you type in the city or airport, AIX is not available. My question would be "What is the best and most feasible (economically but also considerng time) to get from London to Paris and then to Aix (acutally going to St. Remy but thought this might be closest airport"?

Okay, this is a little closer.<BR><BR>Like Southwest (like all airlines), Ryanair does not fly everywhere. Assuming that you mean Aix-en-Provence, I don't know if it even has an airport. Montpellier is probably the closet, or Nimes. Or Marseilles (which Ryanair does not serve).<BR><BR>Ryanair does not fly London-to-Paris (though easyjet.com does). The website does have a very useful "map" (more cartoon-like than geographically accurate) that shows their numerous destinations in France (primarily in the South). For either low-cost choice of flights suggested here, you'll have to get to Stansted airport (for Ryanair) or Luton (for Easyjet).<BR><BR>This reply - - like many of the replies given on this forum - - assume a certain amount of self-reliance poking and browsing on a website, and such assumptions are not appropriate for every visitor here. Again, I am not trying to insult you Judy, but if you need more help than this, then you could write to me directly (the first thing you have to decide is this: is Paris an essential desination or not? will you then need help on figuring out train travel to Aix?)<BR><BR>Or keep asking questions here, and I will keep trying to provide help that matches your needs.<BR>

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