‘Ryanair drinking water is 12 times more expensive than supermarket’ | Mail Online
‘Ryanair drinking water is 12 times more expensive than supermarket’: The huge mark-ups of budget airlines | Mail Online.
Ready for boarding?…The plane is nowhere near the airport yet!
By Patrick Griffin. Low-cost carriers love to redefine things, to change things, to make things different. They first stripped fares to the bone by introducing a no-frills service in exchange for previously unheard of low cost air travel, then they brought prices back up again with an unprecedented range of add ons, optional extras and [...]
I flew Ryanair and missed out bigtime!
SO I flew to Glasgow with Ryanair for a fiver. It was one of those rare fares when it really was a fiver so as a result I got to miss out. Big time. I missed out on the delightfully wallet-busting smorgasbord of fees which the ‘low fares airline’ likes to dish out as ‘optional [...]
Are ‘Low Cost Airlines’ The Cheapest Option?
SOMETIMES, and especially when it comes to flying, the budget option can cost you more. It never ceases to amaze me that people will happily pay, er, sky high fares to a ‘budget’ carrier after becoming apparently mesmorised by the headline fare. Many will see the £19.99 one way special on the website and be [...]
Carry on charging.
I predict that by the end of the year many of the so-called low-cost airlines will be charging customers to carry at least some of their bags on board. At the moment the stuff you are allowed to carry onto the aircraft with you is free-of-charge. But American low-cost carrier Spirit has gone and found [...]