AlterEgo
Veteran Member
In other news, I broke my 14 year Ryanair boycott 2 weeks ago. I can advise that the flight met all my expectations, and the boycott is reinstated with immediate effect.
Tatty aircraft, with dreadful interior.
Vinyl seats (thought they went out with the Austin Allegro?)
Uncomfortable seats (is there less space in an FR 737 than an EZY 319/320? It felt like it.)
No seat back pockets.
V. Expensive in flight refreshment (cr*p tea and a choc bar? £4.10 please!)
Cabin crew looked entirely disinterested. Also tatty.
Appalling service at destination - basically chucked out of plane and left on the apron for 30 min whilst border control did its stuff (slowly). The last people off waited an hour, in 30C direct sun with no shade.
On the return flight our travelling companions had their cabin bags put in the hold, even though there was plenty of space in the cabin.
Plane boarded on time, then sat on the apron for over an hour due to bad weather. The same bad weather that was happening for the hour before the plane was loaded, indeed before the inbound arrived. The pilot would have known he couldn't have departed, therefore no need for it to have been loaded at that time; decidedly uncomfortable for everyone.
And all for a mere £450 return for a 90 minute flight, booked the week the flights were released (yes, for half term, but still...)
Absolute shower. If you think Ryanair are good but don't use Easyjet, I strongly recommend that you reconsider. The boys and girls in orange knock spots off them on every single measure.
At least you managed to get in the air.
I tried FlyMayBe yesterday, Norwich to Exeter. Posted a 5h20m delay as I entered the airport building, so I collected my refund and went back home again!
They were really ****poor about it as well - no apology, even as I rang up to claim my cancellation and refund. I figured it was a duff aircraft at Alicante that caused the delay but no such explanation was forthcoming from the contract staff. Seethe.
However my disappointment was tempered by receiving, by chance, on the same day an offer from a UK-based airline of free travel if I post videos on YouTube.