Economy Class & Beyond

Ryanair extends reserved seating in 6 rows every flight

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Ryanair is expanding its reserved seating product, and is increasing the amount of reserved seats bookable on a Ryanair flight. On their Boeing 737-800 fleet, seats in the following rows are avaible for booking from 1st November: Row 1 Row 2 Row 5 Row 15 Row 16 Row 17 Rows 5 and 15 are the new additions. The cost for reserving seats in these rows is … [Read more...]

Which airline would charge for a booking app? … Oh Hello there Ryanair…

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I was doing my regular sweep of the Apple Store for fun things when I noticed that Ryanair now has a iPhone booking app. With a traditional Ryanair sting in the tail: So let's see - nearly every other airline who publishes an app for phone use gives it away. Of course Ryanair will happily fleece you £2.49 for the privilege of an app that has minimal use. This from … [Read more...]

Safety in the air? Try safety on the ground as a Ryanair and AA plane have an incident on the ground – then BOTH take off

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On the ground when we get on a plane, the first thing we see when the doors go to close is the safety video or a safety demonstration - and hopefully a lot of us pay attention to it. However, there are bigger issues on the ground as Flight reports - and it's enough to make you want to head to the small room. The incident occurred on 14th April 2011, when passengers aboard … [Read more...]

Ryanair makes yet another bid for Aer Lingus

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One of Ryanair's past-times is the constant stalking of Aer Lingus. Ryanair (who own 29.8% of Aer Lingus) has placed a fat offer of a 694 million euro cash bid for Aer Lingus in a new attempt to gain of EI, at 1.30 euros per share There are two rather big obstacles to overcome for a takeover however - The Office of Fair Trading ruled that Ryanair's ownership of the … [Read more...]

Ryanair demonstrates its love of customers… and closes its website for upgrade maintenance during the coming weekend

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In another bid to love its customers, Ryanair is to close its website for upgrade maintenance during the upcoming weekend. The downtime will be for the following: Online check-in will be "offline" between 1600 on Friday May 18 and 1200 on Sunday May 20, Bookings and Flight Changes will not be allowed for hours between 2200 on Friday and 2200 on Sunday As Ryanair is … [Read more...]

O’Leary on the 737-MAX… APD and “Boris Island”

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The shy and retiring CEO of Ryanair Michael O'Leary has looked at the new 737-MAX project. And his words on it could be worrying for Boeing with the amount of planes Ryanair has ordered in the past. Talks are ongoing, but the shy CEO stated that re-engineered plane is a "dog's dinner of a design", and that it had been drawn "on the back of a fag packet as a response to the … [Read more...]

Guess who’s adding a €0.25 ETS levy?

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And you're correct. Everyone's "favourite" low cost carrier - Ryanair - will be applying another levy on all tickets sold from 17th Janaury 2012. The £0.25/€0.25 levy which will be charged per passenger per segment is to cover costs incurred from the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme. For Ryanair, this has a cost of at least €15 million - which isn't pocket … [Read more...]

Ryanair is at it again – Hikes Baggage and Boarding card costs

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The cowboys of the sky are at it once again. The Low Fares Airline (Note Low Fare - not low Excesses) Ryanair has announced changes to some of their fees. And these are eye-watering. From 15th December 2011, checked luggage bookings made online for “peak travel periods” (which Ryanair determines as June, July, August, September and “Christmas”) will increase by £5 to £25 … [Read more...]

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