Ryanair

Ryanair are known to be terrible in disturbing their passengers with infinite services during the trip, it hasn't got any better over the years, only worse however now their greedy bosses have had a brilliant idea where they will steal millions from your pocket by forcing you to pay for seats if you want to sit together with your partner, family or friends. I use Ryanair for EU flights several times a year and up until my last trip in April I had had no issues with their online check ins. Having a guaranteed seat next to my partner was a norm. An automatic seat allocation would ensure the company would go the extra mile to not separate families, in fact I used to get the same seat over and over again or thereabouts, it was great and it worked perfectly.

However in both our flights in May and June we have checked in exactly the same way we did all these years but the company randomly allocates our seats, meaning in both times we have had to seat separately. This is happening with everyone on board, people are complaining inside the aircraft and swapping seats inside the aircraft in order to be able to be together with their kids, spouses, etc. As part of this great business plan the company is willing to offer you an EXTRA service where you sign in to pay 20 in some cases per person, per trip, to have your desired seat next to your partner, which by the way is available and someone else will get it "randomly" if you don't pay for it, but yet the company cannot "ensure" both of you sit together unless you pay for this brilliant service.

For people fearing to fly alone, people who get nervous and suffer from anxiety in these situations, they will end up forking in this money and this extra will generate millions in revenue for the greedy company that sells tickets as cheap as 9.99 but seats as expensive as 20. Be aware that this will happen to you and your family too. This company is not interested in providing you good customer service, they're interested in squeezing your pocket as much as they can before you reach your destination, and squeeze it again on your return.

I do not have a smartphone and don't know how to "check-in" online. We did not have time to find a place to print our boarding pass. We arrived at the airport 2 hours early, but had to wait in line to get boarding pass. When we got to counter, we were told that we would have to pay $100 fine to Ryanair because we did not check-in online, before arriving at the airport. We ask if we could go to a kiosk to check-in and were told "No". WE were sent to another desk for fine/penalty. The non Ryanair lady at the desk felt bad for us, but said we had not choice. We had not choice or we would not be able to fly. No other airline does this. POOR CUSTOMER RELATIONS...

Do not book with this airline. I paid nearly 500 pounds for flights and due to illness can't go. I sent a medical certificate to them confirming from my doctor. Still they won't refund me. Disgusting when you know they will resell my seats between now and August. Absolutely awful. No compassion at all. Con merchants.

First time flying with Ryanair, we had to pay £55 per person to check in. No other airline does this - you just normally check in at bag drop. The staff were rude and unhelpful when directing us to the payment desk. Not helpful at all - just dismissive. We were early for our flight - now been here 45 minutes waiting to pay a check in fee and all they say is they sent a text reminder to our mobile (Australian) therefore we didn't receive it due to mobile roaming. Dozens of people were in the queue with us having to make this payment because it's not clear. So there's clearly a fault in their system. They need to address this as hundreds of people are clearly being burnt and scammed by Ryanair's awful conditions and awful customer service. We will never be booking again!

Do not book with this airline thinking that it is budget and will save you money. You will end up paying additional hidden and unavoidable fees no matter how prepared you try to be. I was scammed out of 50 euros when trying to fly from Budapest to Berlin, more than I paid for the ticket. Worst airline ever. I really recommend just going for a legitimate airline. You will pay the same price and at least be able to rely on good customer service if something goes amiss (which it will if you fly Ryanair, and you will not get help).

Our flight FR2861 from Luxembourg to London Stansted on the 30-12-2016 got cancelled due to bad weather conditions (fog) 3.5 hours before our scheduled departure time. We were planning to celebrate new year's eve with our friends in London. 2 hours after we received the cancellation email, I tried to submit the refund form on the Ryanair website. I completed it correctly but it kept stating that the name on the reservation document differs from the name on the refund form. I tried to contact customer service.

That was a big mistake. It was impossible to get through to an agent via live chat. Their phone hotlines for Germany and Belgium (Luxembourg was not available) cost over 1€ a minute hence I didn't even try to call the hotline. I decided to sleep over it and retry the next day. The live chat was busy as usual so I opened a ticket, explained my situation and asked for a full refund. The customer service replied: That I will have to contact an agent via live chat or phone hotline.

I tried it again but gave up after about 45 minutes in the queue. It was impossible to change flights during the busy end of year period. Long story short, now 10 days later after 17 pages of emailing back and forth. Completing the complaint form and live chatting I still have no refund. According to Ryanair I have not provided sufficient information - I took screen shots of the error message that keeps popping up and every step involved to get the refund. I am now considering taking legal steps through a German website that specializes on cheap airlines. It is not about the money but the principle.

This is the first time in years that I consider flying with Ryanair. The main reason was that we did not need any baggage and the price was much more competitive than the other airlines. However I will never ever fly Ryanair again even if that means that I have to pay the double price or even more. Or stay at home. If you have the opportunity to afford a more expensive flight, please do it. Don't choose Ryanair as it is only ripping-off its customers. I read the reviews on Glassdoor. Apparently their crew also gets treated pretty badly. Nobody should support this business. Hope this review helped someone not make the same mistake that I made.

I flew on Ryanair, flight 436, back in Romania, from Bucharest to Timisoara, this last October. Awfully bad experience. First of all, despite the fact that I had done the check-in 24 hours in advance online and I had the proof on my cell phone, the airline charged me 54 euros at the Bucharest airport simply because I did not have it physically printed on a piece of paper. I showed it to the airline agent in charge at the airport but everything was to no avail. On top of that, she told me, with a nasty and unprofessional attitude: "If you don't pay it in the next five minutes, you can say good bye to your flight".

Second of all, the seat was not only dirty (oily stains) but it had a gaping hole superficially sown, right in the middle. Third of all, the flushing system for the toilet bowl was dysfunctional and a horrible stench was permeating the entire bathroom. Disgusting. Besides the money issue which was clearly an act of thievery, the lack of a decent level of maintenance on board turned out to be a totally disappointing experience. No way would I ever recommend it to someone. Instead, use Easy Jet or Wizz Air. A lot more decent and honest.

Greetings. Me and my boyfriend are two students who decided to go to Rome for a few days. We booked a flight with Ryanair and paid the total amount of 567 euro. Unfortunately, I was not allowed on the flight, because they did not accept my residence card. They wanted me to present my passport. Their policy states that ID cards are acceptable and state authorities that issued my residence card informed me that it is my ID card. I could not present my passport because it was at a Canadian embassy awaiting visa. My boyfriend had his passport (he does not need a visa: he is Canadian) but he did not want to go without me. I would not be complaining if we were refunded the ticket money. However, the company has refused to refund.

I needed to book 2 seats on an afternoon flight of Ryanair from Thessaloniki to Athens in Greece. After trying their website for long time with no progress since the screen froze all the time, I decided to try to make a telephone reservation, even though I had to make a costly call to the UK from Greece. They did tell me that a telephone booking would cost 20 per seat extra but I insisted. When I reached payment they said my credit card was not accepted so I tried another one which was also not accepted. I asked to try another one but they did not allow that. After speaking to a supervisor, I did get to try another credit card which was also rejected. After failing to make a booking, I telephoned my bank which confirmed that my cards had no problem and that they could not see any attempts to charge my card!

I telephoned Ryanair again, but after some attempts they said that there was a problem with their computer systems and they could not make a booking, and I should call back in an hour. I called again, knowing full well that I had spent a fortune already in phone call charges. Of course, time had passed and the flight was not available anymore, even though they told me I would find a seat when they asked me to call back in an hour.

I am completely disgusted with Ryanair and vowed never to fly with them again. Their booking system, either via the web or telephone is hopeless. There are 2 important points to be made about this unfortunate experience. One is that they may well NOT WANT to sell me the tickets and just pretended that my cards were not accepted. When there is a great demand for some last moment seats they may have promised them to specialist travel agents at higher prices. The other point is the particular travel time, 3:15 pm is unique to Ryanair. No other airline has this option which may make it very difficult to book. This seems to be a very unfair lack of competition. How come Ryanair have the monopoly on this flight?

This airline it was supposed to offer really affordable budget flights. But guess what? That has changed radically... I mean I travel with Ryanair at least 8 times in a year and with sadness I have to admit that the prices are higher every time. Especially this summer, the tickets are extremely pricey and so is the price for an extra bag. I pay for a bag every time, I am used to do that, but the price in everything has gone up and I can not do anything about it, because only Ryanair provides the specific flight from my hometown (China) to Cyprus (Paphos). And I can not understand why is happening that, I not that is 3 flights per week, quite the contrary there is a flight every day. And every day is very pricey and don't get me even started about the leisure plus or the business plus fares, especially the business ones.

This airline offers really affordable budget flights! Their rates perfectly suit my limited student budget and is one of the main reason why I could afford to backpack around Europe. Ryanair is the first website we automatically check for our weekend warrior travels around this continent. Very generous in the allowed cabin luggage too - they allow two, unlike EasyJet where you have to stuff all your stuff into one carry-on (my Paris experience still left a bad taste in my mouth). Wish the seats in the plane could recline though.

I have been traveling all throughout my life and never have I seen such bad service ever. Like EVER! I was flying from Barcelona to London and was at the airport way ahead of time (2.5 hrs). Got through the security and was waiting near the gate to board the flight. The agents appear at the gate 30 minutes before departure and there is this mad rush. The agent looks at my boarding pass, asks me to step out of the line and wait. She said your visa check is not complete but as a person who has lived in 4 different countries, visa check to me means the police officials/immigration officers checking your visa and stamping your passport, which was done.

15 minutes before departure, the ** agent tells me that I need to go to their office and get a print out and have a Ryanair official graciously place a stamp on my boarding pass! ** I ran my heart out but the airport was too big and the ** at the Ryanair asylum was stupid to waste another precious 5 minutes staring at my wrong visa that I was 2 minutes late and missed the flight. The next flight costs an additional 100 Euros. RyanAir is the only airline that has this crazy policy. When they print visa/passport check on their cheap ** boarding pass, most people misunderstand it for the normal immigration process. I mean just say that 'It must be stamped by their honored stupid staff' and it supersedes the routine immigration process.

No matter how much more I have to pay to any other airline, I am never flying this crappy airline ever again. It's bad enough that they have this way to rip off people; even worse is how they treat the customers. If that stupid ** hadn’t asked me to wait and the other stupid ** hadn’t wasted time skimming through my passport as if she has never seen a passport with multiple visas, I would have still made it. But then no, in that case, how do they rip you off? Another incident I got to witness while this was going on was another girl who couldn’t check in online as the site was 'temporarily unavailable’. I mean she was standing right in front of the agent and showing him her cell phone but he wouldn't budge. He was like pay me 70 Euros. She totally lost it and threw her credit card at the agent asking him to make it all go away.

I booked through Ryanair because I have never flown with them. I wanted to try it and am glad I did. This is a lesson I would never forget and they do set a new low for the saying - you get what you pay for. Is it even legal they do this? They are not trained professionals to validate the visa or immigration procedures. How can it be justified that they do not let someone fly who had a valid passport, visa and boarding pass by not just some cheap stamp that no one else validates?

On August 15, 2010, my husband and I booked a flight for September 25 from Malaga, Spain to Barcelona on Ryan Air. We printed out the electronic tickets and left the next day for our vacation. Unknown to us, Ryan Air sent us an email dated August 18 informing us of various restrictions and penalties. When we got to Malaga Airport we were in for a shock. Because we did not have our boarding passes printed out, we were charged 40 Euros per person plus 18% VAC tax. That's over $100 for them printing out our boarding passes. The airline does not have a kiosk available so you can do it yourself.

We complained to Ryan Air management at the Airport and they were absolutely rude and unsympathetic telling us they never waive this penalty. We were told that this information was given to us upon booking. We showed them the electronic tickets where nothing was mentioned. Apparently, it is okay for Ryan Air to send an email three days later informing you of that fact. Unfortunately, by that time we were on our way and we don't bother to check our emails while on vacation. The next shock that occurred was that as we were boarding, I was pulled aside telling me that my regular (on the small side) handbag is also counted as a carry-on. If I could not put it into my standard size carry-on, they would charge us an additional 35 Euros.

With all the delays, they started to close the doors and because I could not put my handbag in my carry-on as it would not close, we were charged the additional 35 Euros ($45.00) if we did not want to be left behind. There was absolutely no attempt of trying to help a customer. If anything, the staff was belligerent, hostile, nasty and harassing. They, again, wanted to see our passport asking for our visa to enter Spain. We explained that we had been in Spain for over a week and isn't it up to the Spanish Customs Officials upon entry to check on these things. In addition, Spain does not require a visa from visiting Europeans or Americans.

When I booked a flight from UK to Ireland I could not retrieve my booking to print out my boarding pass. I emailed Ryan Air about the problem but got no reply. I was not able to access my details stored on their website to check it there was a mistake. I arrived at the airport two hours before the flight. The staff at the airport sent me to a special counter to get a boarding pass. They could not log into to 'Manage my booking' either on my details and had to use other information. I was charged 40 pounds to print a boarding pass that their website would not allow me to print. I feel that Ryan Air engage in internet fraud and everything about Ryan Air is dishonest. I would never again travel with them.

This is a complaint against staff at Ryanair in Madrid who through misdirection caused me to miss my flight FR2013 from Madrid to Tenerife on the morning of April 5, 2010.

I arrived at Madrid airport just before midnight on April 4. I caught a brief nap and then lined up at the Ryanair queue at 4 am for the 6:15 flight. After weighing my bag and checking my printed boarding document, the agent told me that I needed an exit stamp. He directed me to another agent at the end of the same counter he was working at who was supposed to help me. This was the first misdirection since he should have told me to go to the office which was on the opposite side of the hall.

I went to this person and asked him for the exit stamp. He told me that I might or might not need the stamp but should go to the gate and would find out there. Of course, this is all nonsense in retrospect but having slept little the previous night I was tired and simply accepted this second misdirection. I went to the boarding gate around 5:30 am. This gate was quite far from the security checkpoint. By this time, there was a large line in front of me. The agent checked my boarding document and said I needed an exit stamp. I asked if I had enough time to make it back for the flight and he said he wasn't sure but I needed the stamp.

I rushed back, quickly got the stamp, rushed through security and ran most of the way but the same agent said it was too late to board the flight. I went back to the office and another agent told me that I could have received the stamp nearby the gate. So it seems I was misdirected a third time.

I spoke with your manager, Javier ** afterwards and he was embarrassed that this had happened. Although the agents involved had finished their shift by the time I returned, he helped sort out their names. The first person was Pedro **, the second was Mori ** and the third person at the gate refused to give me his name but instead provided his official number (although I noticed the name Tariq on his identification badge).

I not only lost the flight but also the first night at the hotel I had reserved in Tenerife. Furthermore, I had 2 Ryan Air flights which I couldn't use from Tenerife to Madrid and Madrid to Trapani, both on April 16. I went through a great deal of mental, physical and emotional torment as a result of the action of Ryanair staff and rushing frenetically around the airport, which itself is dangerous at my age. Not only did I endure a horrible experience but my vacation plans were ruined. I think the least Ryanair can do is compensate me for the missed flights and hotel charges. However, they refused to acknowledge any responsibility.

For the second year in a row, Ryanair have cancelled winter flights from my local airport in Reus (Tarragona) Spain to Dublin. Last year they tried to use as an excuse a technical reason--slowdown in servicing of their fleet by Boeing--but this year they have just simply cancelled all flights from 2.11.2009 to 27.3.2010. This has resulted in me having to pay 5 times more to re-book with national airline Aer Lingus at short notice, pay higher parking charges at Barcelona airport, travel further.

My understanding was that airlines could not simply cancel a flight just because it was unprofitable. Ryanair seen to be adopting a policy of accepting reservations (AND your money) until the level of reservations justifies or not the flight in question. Is this legal? I imagine that this has affected not just myself but the 100s of customers who have bought tickets in good faith to travel from november to march inclusive, & not just on this route. Irish citizen resident in Spain

I booked a return flight, on-line, for my lttle boy and myself to London.I booked it around 6 weeks prior to departure. In the meantime, my little boy's name changed by deed-poll. It was now different to name on booking. When i was sent notification to check in on-line, i was unable to, for this reason. I telephoned the call centre, who advised me to check in at the airport as they needed to see the official legal documents for the change of name.

When i got there, i explained to the Ryanair assistant all of the above. She proceeded to have a whispering conversation with her colleague, which i timed. This went on for 1 min, 45 sec. Then she spoke. She explained that tere was no record of the conversation i'd had with the call centre on file, therefore, she could not prove i did speak to them. Then came the sting. She said, regardless of the issue concerning my little boy, i should've have checked in on line. Failure to do that meant a penalty of 20. Coupled with his name change, and inability to check in on-line for him, meant another 70. 90 in total.

I strongly protested and she reluntantly, as she said 'waived' the costs. But insisted i checked in on-line for the return flight. No reference was made to terms and conditions of this. On my return, i tried to check in on-line. I was one minute over four hours prior to departure, and was told to check in at the airport. When i arrived and tried to do this, i was charge 20 for my ticket and 20 for my little boys ticket, penalty, for failure to checkin 4 hours prior to departure.

I queued up at the reservation centre. There was around 30 people in front of me, and more behind, all queing for the same reason. Of course, failure to pay the penalty, meant no permission to fly. I asked the assistant why i was being penalised for this and he said it was purely a penalty so that people would remember to check in online four hours prior to departure!!!! 600 was taken by Ryanair in 15 minutes flat for this!!! Surely, this is illegal?

I was so frustrated, having a little boy with me who was bored queing, i started to cry with humiliation. The assisiatant said nothing. I was made to feel as if i had been stitched up, for i couldnt travel Without paying the penalty. The assistant was cold, un reassuring and totally used the power of this situation to his advantage. When i told him i wouldnt be using Ryanair again, he just said 'up to you'.

Last week I booked two flights for friend from England to come and visit. I was charged 16 pounds for my debit card transaction which showed as two transaction at 8 each. I thought this must have been a mistake so I contacted Ryan Air to advise of what I thought was an error on their part, only to be told by a very unpleasant customer service operator that Ryan Air charged 4 per person per way, a total of 16 pounds. When I advised that I thought this was incorrect as only one debit card transaction had taken place regardless of how many people where traveling. I was told this was Ryan Air policy and there was nothing I could do about it. Surely there must be somewhere I can take this as an official complaint.

I booked a flight for 2 and paid nearly 400 pounds, then there was a schedule change so i had the option to cancel her flight on the web booking sys. I heard nothing from Ryanair, no confirmation, nothing. I kept checking for updates on refunds up to and including the date of flying out. No updates, told the checkin person the 2nd person was not travelling. While I had taken the outbound flight Ryanair then cancelled my return travel segment and charged me an additional 292 euro for the privilege of flying home. I have written on numerous occasions to no avail. They have refunded my return portion only, I think 147euro.