Yesterday I wrote about a viral picture of a Ryanair crew forced to sleep on the floor in Malaga Airport after a weather diversion. Ryanair claimed, via chief operating officer Peter Bellew on Twitter, that the whole thing was...
Ryanair Dismisses Viral Photo Of 737 Crew Sleeping On Airport Floor
Ryanair is calling a viral photo of a 737 crew sleeping on the floor of Malaga Airport “staged” and misleading. And while I am usually a harsh critic of Ryanair, I’m somewhat sympathetic to its argument. The picture below,...
Passengers Unite To “Bring Down” Ryanair
In case you missed it across the pond, Ryanair just experienced the biggest strike in its history over the weekend. Now angry passengers across Europe are vowing to “bring down” the airline through a sustained boycott. Strikes at Ryanair...
Ryanair Finds The Perfect Way To Make Customers Hate It More
One way to fight an ongoing labor strike is to rally customers to your side. You might think Ryanair would be pulling out all the stops to make customers happy during this turbulent labor period. Instead, Ryanair is pouring...
Live and Let’s Fly Weekend Digest: August 05, 2018
After a lot of domestic travel last week, it has been nice to spend the last two days at home. Another trip, however, is on the horizon. More details on that in the days ahead. Here’s a review of...
Ryanair Spits In The Face Of Customers
As labor unrest has hammered Ryanair, the carrier is only digging itself into a deeper hole by waging a two-front war against its own employees…and now its customers. I’ve written twice this week about the labor issues currently going...
Ryanair Strikes Expand Across Europe
Earlier this week I wrote about the collapse of Ryanair as strikes continued to plague the budget carrier. The problem is only getting worse. Strikes have already occurred in Belgium, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. That led to the...
The Sudden Collapse Of Ryanair
Spain? Strike. Portugal? Strike. Belgium? Strike. Italy? Strike. Ireland? Strike. It has not been a good month for Ryanair… The Irish-based carrier is facing a summer of discontent as labor strife across its European bases spirals into total disaster....
A Hot Meal on Ryanair
This week’s Meal of the Week takes us back to 2011 and a hot lunch I enjoyed on Ryanair. It was a crisp, spring day and my brother and I had booked an incredibly cheap fare from Frankfurt Hahn...
Live and Let’s Fly Weekend Digest: July 30, 2017
Greetings from Southern California. My family is now re-united in LA and I’m happy to remain on the ground this week as I prepare for my next big trip. My RTW trip report stalled this week — the photos...
Wild Onboard Bachelorette Party Leads to Ejection and Arrest
A rowdy group of female revelers were removed and arrested after creating a disturbance onboard a Rynair flight to Spain. The evening Liverpool to Alicante flight featured a group of ladies headed for a weekend hen party. In the UK,...
Passenger Spills Tea on Herself, Sues Airline, Wins
A 27-year-old Irish woman spilled hot tea on herself on a Ryanair flight from Prague to Dublin last summer. Then she sued the budget carrier…and won. Grainne Dunworth claimed that the FA who served her failed to properly secure the lid and...
When Chaos Breaks Out Onboard
One of the reasons I avoid low-cost-carriers in Europe is because of incidents like the one captured on the video below: Flights within Europe on carriers like Ryanair can be very inexpensive if you buy early or buy at...
Ryanair to Remove Toilets on Aircraft
When speaking about Ryanair, it is always difficult to determine whether they are serious or just fishing for publicity, but they are in the news again, and once again the issue is lavatories. While the Irish carrier dropped plans...
The Ryanair Experience – Frankfurt Hahn to Pisa
Earlier this year Ryanair ran a special from Frankfurt Hahn to many of their destinations in Europe, with fares only 7€ each way including taxes and check-in fees (normally tripling the cost of a ticket). My brother was on...
Ryanair Bikini Ad Banned
The British Advertising Standards Authority has banned the Ryanair ad below for…lying. Arguing that the “sunny” destinations wouldn’t get much warmer than 6-9ºC (42-48ºF), the government body has banned Ryanair from publishing similar “misleading” ads in the future. “We considered...
Taking the Plunge on Ryanair
After avoiding it for years, I will be flying Ryanair today from Frankfurt Hahn to Pisa, Italy. My brother is in town this week and we have never explored Tuscany or Rome so we’re off for an Italian adventure....
Ryanair Slams Airline Fuel Surcharges
For all the publicity stunts they play, I just love it when Ryanair tells it like it is. Promising "never" to charge fuel surcharges on their airline tickets, Ryanair lashed out at competitors today for what it calls "rip...
New Routes From Around the World
New airline routes and destinations pop up all the time and I often have trouble staying on top of these announcements. Thankfully, I no longer have to: I found a place where this information is consolidated. Here’s Air Transport World’s list...
Judge Nixes Ryanair’s €40 Airport Boarding Pass Policy
For most tickets purchased from Ryanair, you are levied a €6 fee to print your boarding pass online. Don’t like it? Your only other option is to pay 40€ to print your boarding pass at the airport. Yes, you...