Posts Tagged ‘
Ryanair ’
Feb 14th, 2021 |
By The Editor
In the future lastminute.com customers will remember and when it comes time to book again they may be a bit reluctant to book and part cash with it.
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Seven days to pay up
Tags: Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), customer refunds, lastminute.com, Ryanair
Dec 3rd, 2020 |
By The Editor
“Our new policy will improve boarding and punctuality.” Believe that if you will.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on It’s to improve boarding and punctuality.
Tags: ancillary revenue, easyjet, hand luggage charges, Ryanair
Nov 17th, 2020 |
By The Editor
The significance is that the airline doesn’t see any upturn in air travel in the early part of the year.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Just 20%
Tags: coronavirus impact, easyjet, flight forecasts, holiday forecasts 2021, Ryanair
Nov 3rd, 2020 |
By The Editor
Ryanair made a mess of customer relations during the first lockdown and it doesn’t look to have improved those relations this time around.
Posted in Travel rumblings |
Comments Off on Sometimes in a hole, you should stop digging
Tags: passenger refunds, Ryanair
Aug 25th, 2020 |
By The Editor
There is quite a lot for the owners and managers at Southend to ponder. As will other owners at smaller airports where larger competition is nearby.
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on The rise and fall of Southend Airport
Tags: easyjet, Flybe, Ryanair, Southend Airport, Stobart
Aug 4th, 2020 |
By The Editor
This morning easyJet gave a badly needed fillip to the travel industry by announcing that it flew in July with 85% of seats filled.
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Spotting green shoots
Tags: easyjet, Ryanair
May 21st, 2020 |
By The Editor
Airlines seem to been on the same wavelength about how to get us to fly again. Deep-cleaning and deeply-discounted fares
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Is this what flying will be like?
Tags: easyjet, pos-coronavirus flying, Qantas, Ryanair
May 19th, 2020 |
By The Editor
Deeply discounted sales have changed travel in the past. But this time O’Leary is fighting people’s perceptions of whether it is safe to fly rather than just appealing to their wallets.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on The mother and father of fare wars
Tags: CNBC, flying after coronavirus, Michael O' Leary, Ryanair
May 14th, 2020 |
By The Editor
A holiday this summer with no hassle looks like one being just in the UK. And that is always supposing that the four governments allow you to move about
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Two ministers don’t make a summer
Tags: FCO, Foreign & Commonwealth Office Travel Advice, Ryanair, Summer holidays 2020, Willie Walsh, Wizz
May 9th, 2020 |
By The Editor
The last few days have seen a flurry of rules and some ideas of what future air travel might be like.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on The new “normal” for flying
Tags: Air Canada, air passenger flight rules, American Airlines, BA, Cebu Pacific, easyjet, Ryanair
May 2nd, 2020 |
By The Editor
When flying recommences the boss of Ryanair said – the suggestion is very late summer or autumn – airlines and hotels will offer deep discount to entice us all to fly again.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Very aggressive discounting
Tags: Heathrow Airport, John Holland Kaye, Michael O' Leary, Ryanair
Dec 22nd, 2019 |
By The Editor
Readers should respect the results as being indicative of Which? readers but treat it as being biased in reflecting the passenger flying public as a whole.
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Are BA and Ryanair that bad?
Tags: airline passenger satisfaction, Aurigny Airlines, British Airways, Consumers Association, Ryanair, Which?
Dec 4th, 2019 |
By The Editor
From tomorrow morning there will be a strike which will cover all means of transport to and within France.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on French strikes tomorrow
Tags: Air France, British Airways, easyjet, Eurostar, Ferry crossings to France, Flybe, France, French strikes, Ryanair
Nov 4th, 2019 |
By The Editor
Is O’Leary thinking that cheap fares will overcome any doubts passengers have about the Boeing 737 Max?
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Michael O’Leary says its safe so it must be.
Tags: airline safety, Boeing 737-Max 8, FAA, Michael O' Leary, Ryanair
Oct 25th, 2019 |
By The Editor
All-in-all it doesn’t give passengers a great deal of confidence in Boeing or the 737 Max.
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Will you fly on a 737-Max?
Tags: Boeing, Boeing 737-Max 8, IAG, Ryanair, The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
Oct 6th, 2019 |
By The Editor
It has been estimated that about a hundred thousand Britons would have travelled by Thomas Cook to Morocco which is about one-in-seven of all British visitors to the country.
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on Morocco looks to the French
Tags: easyjet, France, Jet2, Morocco, Ryanair, Transavia
Aug 22nd, 2019 |
By The Editor
The good news as of about 10am today is that everything is running pretty smoothly according to the Ryanair website.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on The Ryanair strike
Tags: EU261, pilot strike action, Ryanair
Mar 8th, 2019 |
By The Editor
APD has become a useful red herring to hide behind when commercial reality shows that Ryanair has got its calculations wrong.
Posted in Travel rumblings |
Comments Off on Belfast and Ryanair
Tags: Belfast, Belfast International, George Best Belfast City Airport, Ryanair
Feb 16th, 2019 |
By The Editor
A jumbo jet arruves at a hotel near Amsterdam, Ryanair starts a loyalty club and BA begins its centenary celebrations
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Saturday snippets: 16th of February 2019
Tags: British Airways, Corendon Village Hotel, Grenada, Heathrow Express, India, Maldives, Philippines, Ryanair, St Maarten
Jan 14th, 2019 |
By The Editor
It is been a complete waste of time since nobody seems to have taken any notice of it at least any meaningful way.
Posted in Travel rumblings |
Comments Off on Passengers don’t care
Tags: Ryanair
Dec 8th, 2018 |
By Adrian Lawes
Lapland doesn’t exist according to some people. On the other hand Hogwarts and Gotham City do. One report says that we will also spend less on Christmas this year. Adrian asks if this is humbug!
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Saturday snippets: 8th of December 2018
Tags: Aer Lingus, Christmas spend, El AL, Greece, Japan, Japanese departure tax, Lapland, Loganair, London Southend Airport, Norwegian, Paris, Ryanair, WOW air, Wrexham
Nov 1st, 2018 |
By Kaye Holland
Just About Travel tells you what’s hot (and what’s not) in the travel world, right now
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on What’s hot: November 2018
Tags: Boracay, Cape Town, Central America, City of Lights, Costa Rica, Denmark, Durban, Florida, Fort Lauderdale, island, Las Vegas, Lion city, Lion State, Miami, Orlando, Paris, Philippines, Ryanair, Singapore, solo, Stansted, Tampa, Travel, travelling, USA
Oct 22nd, 2018 |
By The Editor
Just as airlines have adopted a no-tolerance policy towards over-drinking and flying, the same attitude should be taken to this sort of behaviour.
Posted in Travel rumblings |
Comments Off on Dealing with unruly passengers
Tags: airport disability awareness training, racial behaviour on airlines, Ryanair, unruly passenger behaviour
Oct 21st, 2018 |
By The Editor
It seems that some of us are concerned about Brexit and are waiting before booking EU holidays next year.
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Putting the decision off
Tags: Brexit, Brittany Ferries, Emerald Waterways, Ryanair, Scenic Luxury Cruises and Tours, Stena Line, Thomas Cook, TUI
Oct 14th, 2018 |
By The Editor
Judges ruled that the airline was not liable to pay out compensation under EU261 for flights cancelled due to strike action. The CAA says that UK passengers are entitled to pay-outs of at least €250. Is the court right or is the CAA?
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Is the CAA right?
Tags: CAA, EU261, flight cancellation due to strikes, Ryanair
Oct 6th, 2018 |
By Adrian Lawes
New Zealand and Venice both are likely to introduce more rules which might deter tourists visiting whereas Malaysia and Dubai want to attract many more of us.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Saturday snippets: 6th October 2018
Tags: dream holidays, Dubai, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pobeda Airlines, Primera, Russia, Ryanair, Severn Bridge toll, Venice
Sep 25th, 2018 |
By The Editor
As more and more airports introduce charges for just dropping off passengers is this man’s attitude an indication that passengers might be reaching the limits of the patience with the way that the aviation industry is fleecing passengers at every opportunity?
Posted in Travel rumblings |
Comments Off on Has the aviation industry gone too far?
Tags: airport drop-off charges, carry-on luggage charges, Judge Lever, Manchester Airport, Ryanair
Sep 1st, 2018 |
By Adrian Lawes
As summer ends Adrian looks at new campaigns by Singapore, South Africa and Thailand to entice us to visit them for a winter sun break. But first there is the Last Night of the Proms and Proms in the Park
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Saturday snippets: 1st of September 2018
Tags: BA, Edinburgh Fringe, Festival Toute la Mer sur un Plateau, Lithuania, mobile phone travel bookings, Proms, Ryanair, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand, Wizz Air