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Haven't flown with them for a long time, used to hate how they flogged off those stupid scratch cards
I love RyanAir
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Scratch cards? Were they the ones for a charity as other airlines do that. Or since it was Ryanair was it just to gain some extra profit
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Look up 'cheap flights fascinating Aida' on YouTube. It contains swearies so not forum friendly to link direct.
They would have been saying low fuel (perfectly legal at the time) which would have got them priority for an approach. No need to declare any form of emergency, just that they're a bit low. Now if a pilot says they're low fuel, the response from ATC is usually "Are you declaring an emergency?". Either they say yes, get priority, have to deal with paperwork and a lot of **** from their company, or they say no and nothing happens.
This happened a few years ago so I may not be entirely accurate with my recall.
Never flown with Ryanair and never will, for the same reason I prefer shopping in more affluent areas - I don't like being around the dregs of society (not that Ryanair or shopping in poor areas is only that, but you're much less likely to come across a drunk chav or whatever on a more expensive airline).
the scratch cards are a scam, they sell £12m per year wroth, I think something like E200k goes to charity. There is only one 1m Euro winter per year and if you do win there is a box with 125 elopes and you have to pick the envelope with the cash in it.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ryanair-plane-unfair-charity-lotto-5920749
If true I don't know how they can get away with it.
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Get three matching symbols and we'll let use the loo for free.
That, +1.
I've seen enough of O'Leary's business principles that there's no way I would fly Ryanair. I would use another airline if possible, and if it's not, I wouldn't go. I wouldn't fly Ryanair even if they paid me to do so.
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I think the thing people should be asking, is why would there be cats at 30000 feet. If this is true I don't want to fly anymore, If they've truly developed self flight capabilities we should all be worried about our futures.
Did it make a meeeow as it flew by? I can only imagine that is the sound it would make, but welcome your first hand account.
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It fell out of a plane at 35000 feet?
It forgot its parachute?
Boiler explosion?
Species identity crisis, and thinks it's a bird (with altitude ambition)?
Feline Cannonball test flight gone wrong?
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Feline Baumgartner?
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Flown with Ryan air a fair few times, don't really mind them tbh. I'm not on the flight long enough to really care to spend more money on it.
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Last time I flew ryanair, was a work trip to frankfurt for a conference, via stanstead, and oh gosh was it painful, almost an hour to get through check-in, which was more like a cattleshed than anything else. And on the way back, 45 minutes standing on the tarmac waiting to get onboard, in torrential rain. And when we finally land.. of the 50 or so of us who went, 35 failed on the digital passport check, despite the assertion of the passport chap that "It works for 99% of people, you're doing it wrong!"
Flown twice with them and was alright bearing in mind I paid more for meals than the price of the return flight. On time and got me there in one piece, can't say anyone was rude so not much else to ask for, although personally I do prefer to pay a little more for other airlines. Not just for the service but fact that Ryanair use some very obscure airports for some destinations. That and cheap tickets attract certain kinds of people I'd rather not fly with #snob