Posts Tagged ‘ Michael O\’Leary ’

Yes, the rumbles from Brexit continue but Adrian also covers the largest rodeo in the world, Otto the octopus and the non-decision about airport expansion.

Customer service hasn’t soared at Ryanair, says Kaye Holland

Remember when low cost flights started? There were 99p flights to places that you hadn’t heard of and, on Laker, you took your own sandwiches on board.

Catching a bus to London’s Victoria station yesterday, I passed a hairdressing salon called Ryan-Hair. All sorts of thoughts went through my mind as I recalled Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary’s first attempts to respond to customer comments on Twitter.

UK the worst for air taxes

Last week we told you how airlines et al had been ticked off for the silly surcharges that they imposed on people paying by credit card.

Passengers planning to fly with budget airline Ryanair in summer 2012 will need to travel light. Michael O’Leary’s no frills airline has revealed that it will be increasing its online baggage fees by 25 percent

I thought I was dreaming a minute ago. On BBC’s Breakfast, Michael O’Leary from Ryanair and Willie Walsh of the holding company that owns British Airways and Iberia were standing side-by-side having a go at the government about APD.

The low budget airline that everyone loves to loathe is to get rid of a number of loos in each and every one of their aircrafts. Going forward, Ryanair planes will have only one loo on board, in a bid to make room for six extra seats.

CD-Traveller tells you what’s hot and what’s not in the travel world. This month, it’s good news for Glasgow and Gothenburg and gourmands in London, but we’ve lost trust in TripAdvisor…

Is Ryanair the most repulsive airline around? Not content with charging passengers to check in bags, in addition to asking them to cough up for food and drink plus pay to use onboad toilets, Michael O’Leary’s airline has this week launched its own prepay card.

Some days ago I wrote that I couldn’t remember the last time we had such a good weather forecast for an Easter holiday. It has turned out that this has been the warmest Easter since 1949. So many of us have been out and about making the most of it. Car mostly but for longer journeys the train has been answer. The number of people heading out of Paddington on Thursday night to the west country or out of Kings Cross or Euston to the north gave witness to that but was this the best way to go?

Well I suppose it had to come.After saying it would happen in 2006 and frequently in 2008, Ryanair introduced to passengers the chance to use their mobile phones on some flights yesterday. So if you feel like paying between £2 and £3 a call you can indulge yourself by saying unecessary things like “I’ll be landing in ten minutes” and “Can you put the kettle on in about half an hour” and other earth shattering items like that as you sit hunched up in the
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