Airtrainer From Belgium, joined Aug 2003, 1523 posts, RR: 13 Posted (4 years 4 weeks 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 5926 times:
Hi,
Two days ago I booked a return flight CRL-DUB with FR for a daytrip at the unbeatable price of 32€, including priority boarding and credit card surcharge (something that you can't avoid unless you have a visa electron). Great. Today I checked the fares for a colleague who wanted to join and the fare is still available but since today they're charging 10€ for online check-in !
Ok, it's still very low for a flight but I really don't like the way they're acting
NWIguy From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2009, 68 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (4 years 4 weeks 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 5868 times:
I was just about to book flights to DUB with Ryanair.
Once you've selected your times it says in the price breakdown "online check-in fee, 2 x £10"
With the new fees its actually worked out cheaper with AF from LCY
SandroZRH From Switzerland, joined Feb 2007, 3385 posts, RR: 51 Reply 4, posted (4 years 4 weeks 2 hours ago) and read 5753 times:
Quoting Airtrainer (Reply 3):
and in the same time they send an email to people saying "lowest fares cut by further 50%, flights for only €4,00 !"
But of course they didn't mention the new online check-in fee.
Every half-brained person would realise that the total amount you pay is now actually higher with the new check-in fee than it was when the fares were "50% higher" (unless you don't wanna check-in, oh wait, you'll have to!)
Yet, some people will still believe FR's garbage and think they made a bragain.
Quoting NWIguy (Reply 2): With the new fees its actually worked out cheaper with AF from LCY
How very picturesque!
But people will still think that FR is the cheaper option, which might be true when it comes down to teh fare alone, but if you add all the fees, it's a whole different story. In the end, sadly, people will never learn!
Babybus From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2003, 3537 posts, RR: 6 Reply 5, posted (4 years 4 weeks ago) and read 5743 times:
That is very irritating that they charge for online check-in but the moment that a customer's Ryanair fare costs more than any other carrier they will opt for the other carrier.
All in all the FR fare is normally well below any other carriers and that's why so many people choose to fly them.
and with that..cabin crew, seats for landing please.
Airtrainer From Belgium, joined Aug 2003, 1523 posts, RR: 13 Reply 8, posted (4 years 3 weeks 6 days 18 hours ago) and read 5704 times:
Quoting SandroZRH (Reply 4): But people will still think that FR is the cheaper option, which might be true when it comes down to teh fare alone, but if you add all the fees, it's a whole different story. In the end, sadly, people will never learn!
You're absolutely right ! Last year a colleague asked me if I could find for him and his wife something great to spend a week-end in Dublin. It was finally cheaper for them to fly EI from BRU (and even more interesting since we're at the same distance from BRU or CRL but you can reach BRU easily from where we live...).
Airtrainer From Belgium, joined Aug 2003, 1523 posts, RR: 13 Reply 9, posted (4 years 3 weeks 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 5617 times:
talk about something wrong...
here's what you get when looking for flights in june :
CRL-DUB
regular fare : 2,99 €
online check-in : 5,00 €
taxes/fees : 15,49 €
Total : 23,48 €
same flight next day...
fare : 4,00 €
online check-in : 0,00 €
taxes/fees : 0,00 €
Total : 4,00 € !
DocLightning From United States of America, joined Nov 2005, 16935 posts, RR: 57 Reply 10, posted (4 years 3 weeks 4 days 8 hours ago) and read 5578 times:
Well, I made a dummy FR booking to go from MAD to BCN at the end of the month. Round-trip it was about €30, including a checked bag.
Airtrainer From Belgium, joined Aug 2003, 1523 posts, RR: 13 Reply 11, posted (4 years 3 weeks 4 days 6 hours ago) and read 5570 times:
Quoting DocLightning (Reply 10): Well, I made a dummy FR booking to go from MAD to BCN at the end of the month. Round-trip it was about €30, including a checked bag.
Not even AVE is that cheap that far in advance.
I didn't say they were expensive at all, they're still very cheap on some occasions but as I said in the first message it's the way they're acting that is bad. For instance, if you try to make different bookings for the same routing you'll see that the taxes and fees are different for each fare...
Yesterday in the evening I was about to book a CRL-DUB return 24-25 june. Outbound fare 4,00 € | inbound fare 14,00 € | free online check-in | taxes and fees 0,00 € both ways / total 18,00€ : woww ! I didn't have the time to book as I was late to go to work (no, I wasn't expecting to find something cheaper) and then planned to book this morning. So I come back home, open my mailbox and there's an email from FR announcing some great offers from CRL for june and july, the offer being valid until thursday ! And here's what I get today for the same flight : outbound fare, special offer 0,00 € | online check-in 5,00 € | taxes and fees 5,00 € | inbound fare, special offer 0,00 € | online check-in 5,00 € | taxes and fees 15,00 € / total 30,00 €... Great, their special offers with amazing fares at 0 € are finally more expensive (!) than the regular fares they don't avertise for ! Don't get me wrong, it's still very cheap but I'll wait till thursday when the amazing offer ends...
Stargold From United Kingdom, joined May 2008, 83 posts, RR: 0 Reply 12, posted (4 years 3 weeks 4 days 4 hours ago) and read 5566 times:
Yet another reason why I will never set foot on an FR aircraft. I haven't done it yet, and I Have no intention of doing so in the future. I simply can't bring myself to fly an airline whose CEO has such blatant disdain and disregard for his passengers.
They always seem to make Easyjet look like a full-service airline in comparison - which is quite an achievement.
Pe@rson From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2001, 18883 posts, RR: 54 Reply 13, posted (4 years 3 weeks 4 days 3 hours ago) and read 5558 times:
Quoting Airtrainer (Reply 11): Great, their special offers with amazing fares at 0 € are finally more expensive (!) than the regular fares they don't avertise for !
Been like that for ages. You used to find, say, €5 with no taxes, whereas €0.01 would be with taxes, so the sub-total for the latter would be a few times more than the former, even though the former had an obviously higher airfare. And it is the same now: recently, I searched for EMA-BHD. I could pay £0.99 plus taxes and online check-in, coming to about £25, or £4 without taxes or online check-in, so just £4.
"Everyone writing for the Telegraph knows that the way to grab eyeballs is with Ryanair and/or sex."
The story continues... Same return flight, 18€ monday, 40€ yesterday and finally 12€ this morning ! Now I'm just wondering, is it legal to do this ?
LHR27C From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2004, 1279 posts, RR: 18 Reply 15, posted (4 years 1 week 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 5169 times:
Quoting SandroZRH (Reply 4): But people will still think that FR is the cheaper option, which might be true when it comes down to teh fare alone, but if you add all the fees, it's a whole different story. In the end, sadly, people will never learn!
While this is often the case, in FR's defence, I just returned with two friends from a trip STN-MRS-STN, and paid exactly £2 per person inc all taxes etc, no more no less. Total card bill (with Visa Electron) £6. The flights were on time, at relatively sociable times, and both airports were convenient for the places we were travelling from/to.
Once you have tasted flight, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned forever skyward
Signol From United Kingdom, joined Oct 2007, 2953 posts, RR: 7 Reply 16, posted (4 years 1 week 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 5120 times:
Surely legally there has to be an option to avoid the checkin fee, otherwise it becomes part of the minimum fare and has to be advertised as part of it? At least the credit card fee can be avoided by paying with Electron...
Pe@rson From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2001, 18883 posts, RR: 54 Reply 18, posted (4 years 5 days 21 hours ago) and read 4999 times:
Quoting BMIFlyer (Reply 17): Yes FR is a disgrace when it comes to "Charges", but people are easily 'drawn in' by the "low fares".
Almost every charge is optional. I, for one, don't pay for anything except the fare - and that includes no card fee (I have Electron for that purpose) and no online booking fee (I wait until the fare is has no online booking). If you make a few changes or do a few things, you can easily get stupidly cheap tickets. So, I shall enjoy such fares whenever I book FR.
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