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Ryanair launches aggressive fair cuts...I wonder why?
Pamthehound
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"Ryanair will launch 'aggressive' fare promotions this winter after harsh competition and weak bookings forced it to admit today that profits this year will disappoint investors.
Shares in the budget airline plunged by as much as 15 per cent after it said falling prices and low bookings this autumn meant that profits would be at or below the lower end of City forecasts. "
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/markets/article-2410969/Ryanair-cut-fares-aggressively-profit-warning-sends-shares-tumbling-14.html
Maybe its because the ordinary customers see through their cheap policy as not really being cheap at all and they get soaked in all types of add on and stealth charges by O'Leary and Ryanair.
Good to see potential customers voting with their credit cards and going to other more decent airlines who look after their customers and not treat them as cash cows to be conned.
And lets not forget how they treat their pilots and staff.
Hopefully next headline about Ryanair will be that they have gone bust.
Shares in the budget airline plunged by as much as 15 per cent after it said falling prices and low bookings this autumn meant that profits would be at or below the lower end of City forecasts. "
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/markets/article-2410969/Ryanair-cut-fares-aggressively-profit-warning-sends-shares-tumbling-14.html
Maybe its because the ordinary customers see through their cheap policy as not really being cheap at all and they get soaked in all types of add on and stealth charges by O'Leary and Ryanair.
Good to see potential customers voting with their credit cards and going to other more decent airlines who look after their customers and not treat them as cash cows to be conned.
And lets not forget how they treat their pilots and staff.
Hopefully next headline about Ryanair will be that they have gone bust.
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Yes - thousands of people losing their jobs and millions of people having their travel plans ruined would be great news wouldn't it?
I'm not the biggest fan of their services business practices either but I don't want them to go bust.
So which airline is run as a charity?
They are there to make money. Don't like the business, use a different one. You can only feel ripped of if you use them. We have used them loads, and never paid more than we wanted to. Can't remember ever having to pay some hidden charge.
How do they treat their pilots and staff?
Why is that? Is it their almost perfect safety record?
For reasons I am not going to go into in this thread, many airlines have 'almost' perfect safety records
disgracefully
Great post then. Thanks for enlightening us.
How though?
They aren't going to discuss it. Why they mention it to begin with then is a mystery in of itself.
On a recent t.v. programme they showed how the cabin staff are paid peanuts but have to make their money from commission by selling food and drinks and lottery tickets, and they are given targets which they have to achieve even though they are almost impossible.
I forget what happened with the pilots but one was sacked recently for blabbing to the media about Ryanair.
I know a pilot who used to fly for Ryanair, and what he says about the company's shoddy practices and treatment of aircrew (in relation to safety) is shocking. He's actually surprised that there hasn't been a major incident involving one of the fleet yet and refuses to let his family fly on the airline.
Honestly I could tell you stuff that would make your hair curl, I worked for ryanair, easyjet and thompson and I would fly with the latter two any day.
They still managed to get me home too.
They're your basic no frills airline, and I don't understand why so many take exception to them.
I prefer to fly with other airlines but I wouldn't turn my nose up at a cheap Ryanair flight if I was strapped for cash.
Perhaps they're also more adept at navigating their way around Ryanair's minefield of a website, with less chance of clicking an inadvertent extra or having to pay some penalty charge.
Many people are. That's the point.