Ryanair refund

How experienced do you have to be?

I've flown many dozens of times and don't recall ever being asked to confirm an outward flight.

Sometimes on longhaul I've been asked to reconfirm a return flight, "at least 72 hours before departure", although I've rarely done this and it's never been a problem. (And no-one could ever enlighten me as to whether it was 72 hours or less -- so you can reconfirm while checking-in, or 72 hours or more -- so you could reconfirm then just before the outward flight.)

Certainly never on Ryanair but sounds a Flight Confirmation Fee could be a good idea for them.

The price of goods or services do not affect a consumer's rights. The price is irrelevant.

Your logic is faulty. If someone got swindled at a market then it makes no difference how many other people got a bargain.

The question asks about a refund, not your personal views about the right price of a ticket. That has already occurred.

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It invited them. 'Ryanair are expensive' the OP said.

It's all set out above.

I'm the Op and you are mixing up posts. I didn't write that.

Maybe you started this thread by looking at a reply rather than my orig post.

You did, you know, in your post today at 13.38.

Nope.

Not with any of the Low Cost carriers, you don't

Their sales are (in simple legal jargon) complete and final (on both parties).

tim

There's a reason the fares to Billund are cheap.

Try a destination that people actually want to go to

tim

I expect all the flights are full. What therefore makes you think people don't want to go there?

Since when? I've never had to do this.

I vaguely remember my parents having to do such things when I was a small child. That was a while ago (not as long as most on here, though!). I've never had to do it myself.

True for *some* airlines, but most certainly not "When you fly on any airline".

I'm not sure I have ever done that, although it does make clear that I have to on the flights to Crete I have just booked with FlyThomasCook for next June.

It really doesn't matter what cost they may have incurred.

In common with all the low cost airlines, they do not generally refund anything they are not legally required to - and that means only taxes & airport fees.

But then Travel Insurance will repay that cost, unless you just chose to not fly.

And that had anything at all to do with the post you responded to?

In what way might that true but utterly irrelevant fact make his logic "faulty"?

That was the original question.

It was not what the post he was responding to was about.

Well then somebody else using your name did.

But given that it was also the same posting host and NNTP address, I think that unlikely.

So you definitely *did* say it, and in the post Norman was responding to.

It would be irrelevant whether he did or not, since he was responding to a particular post of yours, which was a reply. It doesn't matter in the least whether he had read other posts, when he was only responding to what you had said in that one.

I've been flying fairly regularly since the late 1980's on both budget and regular airlines alike, and I can honestly say I've never encountered it, or even heard mention of anyone ever having to to it.

Well if it would keep riffraf away then that would seem a small price to pay.

I think you might have to start paying even more.

British Airways made a loss of £401m. last year due to high fuel prices and a sudden deterioration in its most important market, transatlantic business customers.

According to The Guardian:

"In a grimly pessimistic set of annual results, Heathrow airport's largest airline declined to offer investors new guidance for this year because of the dire state of the airline market.

Willie Walsh, BA's chief executive, said "I don't think the economic environment will improve. We don't see any signs of recovery, nothing, right across the globe in all the markets we operate in".

Unless you pump your money into them a bit quicker than you are, Col, they're going down the tubes, especially as they're now facing a strike of all cabin crew before and over Christmas.

Meanwhile, Ryanair over the same period posted a post-tax profit of £100m.

It seems the unstoppable hordes of the bolshevik riff-raff are banging at your door.

I think you will find there is a card processing fee, unless you use Visa Electron, which is difficult to find, and not a good idea anyway.

There is a check-in fee, a baggage fee, unless you go with everything in your pockets.

Then you will find that there is probably only one £6 ticket, on a flight that nobody wants to travel on anyway.

I have one. It was not difficult to find. And there is no reason at all why it is not a good idea.

There is no check-in fee on the flights I mentioned, nor on any others under the current £6 promotion. £6 is what you pay each way, as I said. You need not pay a penny more. Within that price you can take on board a perfectly adequately sized wheelie case in which you can get enough to last you up to a week.

Call me a liar if I'm wrong, but you'll have to prove it.

Not true. Every Ryanair flight I have ever travelled on has been full or very nearly so. They know their market exceptionally well and do not operate flights that nobody wants to travel on.

Go to

and check out how many seats are available at the advertised price by going through the flight selection process putting in any number of people. Do tell us what you find.

I'm very sorry, I AM a liar. The current promotion is NOT £6, and I do most humbly apologise for my humiliating error.

The current promotion is actually FREE (or rather 1p each way since the computer can't handle zero sum payments). You can now go to Billund for example on 25 November and back on 1 December and pay the princely sum of just 2p for the privilege.

If you don't want to go to Billund, you can go to over 50 other Ryanair destinations for the same price.