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Miscellaneous See other Miscellaneous Articles Title: Ryanair travel by air - subtle scams to be wary of posts: 100 1 2 3 4 »» Wroclaw Boy Photos: 3 ✔ ♂ Jun 18, 2012, 01:22pm ☓ # I have been using Ryanair for a number of years, however just recently i have booked some flights and they have new and improved methods of extracting money from you under false pretenses. Seeing as Ryanair is probably the most busy airline in Poland i thought it important to list some of the scams they pull and get away with. Ryan air Guaranteed exchange rate: I actually fell for this one about two weeks ago, if you book a flight over the internet departing from another country the cost is listed in the local currency. At the very last minute before you actually pay you have the option to opt out of the Ryanair Guaranteed Exchange Rate, its very difficlut to find as are all the opt out features throughout the their website. Before you select to opt out it tries to scare you by saying YOUR BANK WILL NOT GUARANTEE THE EXCHANGE RATE, this is obviously scare mongering tactics as the Ryanair rate is indeed guaranteed but guaranteed at a much higher rate than any bank. It roughly works out at about 7% extra. What i also found scandalous was the way they try to brainwash you into pre booking seats....... at extra cost of course. and the web check in, if you book that but dont check in its a £60 fine per booking, if you make a mistake its a £60 fine per booking. administration fees are another con, and they never give you these prices till right at the very end - its about 5%. Anybody noticed that the opt out of travel insurance is quite tricky too, it defies the alphabetical order, which is the norm throughout the site.... I wonder how many extra millions Ryanair makes out of this alone. What is really funny is that once you manage to opt out of travel insurance the next page tries to scare monger you back in, by having two large options, one says something like "Ohh yes i want travel insurance" and the other "No i will take the risk". Then of course we have baggage fees, priority boarding passes, EU levy, taxes and fees, a friggen ETS (what ever the fcuk that is) and more. So be aware "We are on a spaceship; a beautiful one. It took billions of years to develop. We're not going to get another. Now, how do we make this spaceship work?" Nojas ♂ Edited by: Nojas Jun 19, 2012, 07:59am ☓ # The main problem people have with Ryanair is their expectations in my experience. They expect to get the same treatment as with bigger and more expensive airlines. They want free food, they want a personal masseuse rubbing their feet during flight and so on. Ryanair is more of stepping on to a bus, rather than your classical flight, I like it. My only problem is the small/remote airports you have to go to. But you get what you pay for, and with Ryanair you get a "bus" ticket. There's always a lot, crazy amount of complaining about Ryanair, but nobody is forcing people to fly with them. They can always pay the triple amount of money and go with some other airline. But they never do. In the end, people want a cheap bus ticket. But I still agree that they have dodgy ways of charging people for small mistakes. But if you know what you are doing, you will be fine. I have never ever had one single problem with Ryanair, and I have used them a lot. But that's because I don't forget to check in, I don't forget to print the boardingpass, I weigh all my bags at home before arrival to the airport and so on. Edit* There's one more thing, the only thing that has ever truly irritated me about Ryanair. It's their measurements for the handluggage allowed in the plane, they have it lower than the standards of all other airlines (and therefore, below all standard handluggage bags), which forces you to buy a new one. Practically enough, they sell a special Ryanair bag from Samsonite, offered to everyone bying a ticket.... ukpolska Jun 19, 2012, 07:29pm ☓ # I have a WIZZ account as I need to fly to the Luton maybe once or twice a month and the price is always around the 600zl area give or take 100zl. Never had an issue with them and you get what you pay for really and it is perfect for myself as the hotel I stay at is only twenty mins away by taxi. I once travelled from Prague to Warsaw with LOT on a little ATR-42 and before we took off, as there were only 12 of us on the plane, we were made to sit in areas to balance the plane out - one poor guy who must have been over 150 kgs was made to sit opposite three other guys, couldn't help but laugh. Anyway, half way through the flight there was a bang on the L/H engine and we thought nothing of it. When we landed in Warsaw and started to disembark the plane, I looked over to my R/H side as I was walking down the steps and a load of mechanics were opening up the bottom of the engine cover - when they got it open, oil just poured out of the bottom of the cowling followed by what looked like tiny mangled bits of engine, needless to say I have never travelled on LOT since Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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