Ryanair sticks the boot into families

[lordjohn]

As a responsible father I only take the kids on holidays in June, July and August.

I hear that Ryanair is raising their checked baggage fee from €15 to €20 for July and Aug. It will be back to €15 from September.

As a father going on holiday I have to work my balls off to pay for 4 people, and the only time I can take the kids off is those months not only do you have to pay premium rates to travel in those months but now Ryanair is putting on an extra Family tax.

Whereas other single and gay people in my job who have no responsibilities can fuck off during the low seasons and avail of the low prices for travel etc.

[Patricia]

You are right lordjohn, that does seem unfair on families.

[client56789]

typical ryanair... just gotta get everything into less bags I guess

[bhoywonder]

if you dont like the deal then fly with someone else

[Mymisters]

Ryanair will eventually go too far with the penny pinching.
I hate travelling with Ryanair and only use them if I have no other alternative.
I pay more to travel with another carrier when I can to get better service.
Ryanair no longer allow elderly people on first (they will if you pay).
And the last time I went with them they made everyone test their bag to make sure it fitted into the overhead bin. They just wanted that extra money when they made you check it on.

[ber]

Well the rules are there with Ryan Air they are totally transparent, weigh ure luggage before u leave home, make sure ure there on time,be
cchecked in online and if u cant stay within the rules fly with someone else and stop bitching. I dont think anyone puts a gun to your head to
book a Ryan Air flight . People complain about Ryan Air being greedy for their charges but the facts are that people want to fly as cheap as
posible and take as much luggage as possible so are they not also being greedy. Just stop and think what it would cost to fly if the Ryan Airs
were not there and u were depending on the Aer linguses of this world who would still be putting up their cabin crew in 5 star hotels with fat
expense accounts if not for competition. Where did u think the money for that came from exept from the price of ure ticket.

[Notatwork]

Ryanair will eventually go too far with the penny pinching.
I hate travelling with Ryanair and only use them if I have no other alternative.
I pay more to travel with another carrier when I can to get better service.
Ryanair no longer allow elderly people on first (they will if you pay).
And the last time I went with them they made everyone test their bag to make sure it fitted into the overhead bin. They just wanted that extra money when they made you check it on.

Ryanair have already taken there costcutting measures to far for me,also alot of my friends wont travel with them unless there is no alternative or if there a third the cost of another carrier,there good for business travel on my own BUT if its only abit extra to go with another carrier i will pay the extra.I also didnt like olearys handling of the maintanence jobs,whatever beef he has with the DAA and the government he should not play roulette with people livelyhoods,for the sake of Ireland he should have kept those jobs in Ireland,something people should remember when there booking there next flight.

[Smarty]

if you dont like the deal then fly with someone else

I think the point being made here is that a guy with a family has little choice but to fly July and August.

And they are the very months that the baggage charge is being put up.

With a smug answer like that I assume you are a single guy with no dependants to transport on a once a year (if lucky these days) sun holiday.

[Emily Divine]

I recently flew with Ryanair and read in their inflight magazine that they intend to start charging people €1/£1 to use the toilet. They stated that this was to encourage passengers to use the facilities in airports to help reduce their operating costs. In my opinion this is going too far.
On this same flight I was charged for my bag being too big to be classed as hand luggage. I didn't mind paying as it was my own fault but the Ryanair employee didn't have change to give me so it ended up costing me £40 rather than £35. Quite cheeky really.

[bhoywonder]

I think the point being made here is that a guy with a family has little choice but to fly July and August.

isn't it common enough for hotels, airlines and travel agents to bump up their prices for these months? why should this extra fee be any different. aer lingus are probably kicking themselves that they didnt think of it first