Dun take if you have money to take better airlines (Ryanair)

Member Name: evetortoise

Product:	Ryanair
Date:	28/11/08 (33 review reads)
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Advantages: cheap if tickets are bought during sale

Disadvantages: once you miss the plane, it is no longer cheap for a replacement

I used ryanair quite a fair bit but I still do not like it. To be fair, they cover quite a lot of countries but they operate in airports in the middle of nowhere.

First, they open their counters too late. 2 hours before the airplane take off can be too late sometimes especially at certain airports where the queues to get past customs can be ridiculously long. I have queued up over an hour before (when the counter first open and the queue was already formed snaking a long way) and it resulted in us running to clear customs. The queue was really long at customs so I actually had to ask people to let me skip the queue or I would have missed the airplane.

Second, if you miss the airplane, you have to buy a new flight. Sometimes, the flight is missed due to the long queues created by their policy instead. I suspect that they might have been making money off that to cover their 1p ticket sales.

Generally, it is an airline that I take because I am too skint to pay for better airlines so I have to put up with the plentiful inconveniences.

Summary: I take it cuz i am too skint to take a better airline