Ryan air is profitable yes and BA and most major airlines are jealous. It runs a super streamlined business model with tiny margins so they need a lot of passengers to make it work - obviously people are not going abroad as much so they are getting hit
BUT the main reason they make profits as opposed to BA is that they enjoy massive government subsidies from the countries they fly to as they want to develop their tourism.
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Ryan Airs profits down 24%
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so I just get a moderately expensive deal out of a proper airline instead
...and the reason why your flight was only moderately expensive, as opposed to wallet rapingly expensive was of course because of budget airlines...Remember it wasn't that long ago that BA claimed the cheapest flight they could ever do to Dublin was £99.00
You may not like the man personally but what for what he's done to the cosy monopoly price fixing old flag airlines, I'd stand him a pint at the bar.
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Really? I paid $100 with AA.
It was meant to be something like $150 each way, but actually thinking about it the lady at Heathrow only charged me the excess baggage fee rather than the bike fee. So it was $200, should've been $300. Outrageous.
BA, OTOH - bunch of snotty, incompetent, smug **** for the most part. Crap food, crap IFE
Weird. Food is the best I've had on my route and the IFE was dozens of on-demand films. The staff did all sorts of things above and beyond the procedures to help us out when flying with a baby - like heating up a meal for us outside of mealtimes, or letting me sit in one of their seats to eat because my seat had a sleeping baby etc etc. American, by contrast, weren't actually allowed to do anything like that, although a few did out of pity - despite glares and chastisements from their colleagues (infront of me). American Airlines staff are usually grumpy and short with us, the opposite to BA.
American Airlines in-flight entertainment last time we flew was two films on communal screens, as was United. Virgin had the same system that they had when I first flew with them in 2000 - about 8 or so on a loop, as opposed to dozens on demand with BA.
This is all on Heathrow to Chicago btw.
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saying that airlines operated under a far more restrictive regime than rival modes of transport, such as ferries and buses
Yes the tax on air fuel is really crippling their competitiveness realative to other modes of transport. It is tragic that this year they may make less than £1 million pounds profit per day at this current rate.. see we are all in this together
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For all the people that are frequent flyers and would only use Ryanair as a last option, is this your personal money or on company accounts?
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It's personal money. No budget airline flies transatlantic, so it really doesn't affect us when we go to visit family in the States. We do spend more to get direct flights tho, and up to maybe 10% more to get an airline we like if necessary I suppose.
I used to go to and from Helsinki fairly regularly when I worked there, and the only budget option was a flight from Stanstead to Tampere, which worked out about £20 cheaper when you factored in all the trains and stuff needed, and took a day instead of less than three hours.
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Use Ryan Air to get back and for to Sweden, its ok but the hidden costs really piss you off. The £10 to buy the ticket makes me grind my teeth every time. Never really had a problem and they get me to Stockholm cheaper than I can get a train from Bristol to London.
An airline making a profit is no mean feat at all.
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molgrips - not disagreeing with you for a second that AA and United (and every other US airline apart from JetBlue) are unutterably crap. But they are (were, when I was flying that route a lot, at least) very cheap.
My hatred for BA is pathological and beyond reason.
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"can't stand the whinging Irishman! "
Thats odd, I thought it was always people that whinged about him.
Surely everyone in the universe now knows Rynair web prices are not what you actually pay?!?!?! Play the game and you can get a flight cheap.
I wouldnt dream of booking a flight these days without comparing all the carriers that fly in to one destination. If say BA worked out £20 more expensive I'd probably fly BA, but they don't do they, they tend to work out £100 more expensive so you plump for the cheap option.
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I wouldnt dream of booking a flight these days without comparing all the carriers that fly in to one destination. If say BA worked out £20 more expensive I'd probably fly BA, but they don't do they, they tend to work out £100 more expensive so you plump for the cheap option.
Thing is though you have to factor in the cost and time of getting to and from the out of the way airports that Ryanair fly into. The transport to city centres is often much worse than the major hubs the main carriers fly to
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Flying should be expensive, end-of.
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