For those of you who are familiar with RYANAIR here's something for you to laugh at... Ryanair so far is leading the score board my worst flight experience.... EVER.
Not because the staff was rude or abrupt, they were pleasant to say the least. I understand Ryanair is a budget airline and probably has a minimalist approach but seriously... the lack of communication and punctuality by the airline and let's face it their clientele (You don't see the Queen flying Ryanair now do you?) and we have a disaster just waiting to happen.
Not because the staff was rude or abrupt, they were pleasant to say the least. I understand Ryanair is a budget airline and probably has a minimalist approach but seriously... the lack of communication and punctuality by the airline and let's face it their clientele (You don't see the Queen flying Ryanair now do you?) and we have a disaster just waiting to happen.
My journey began on Thursday evening after a
stressful day sleeping on the couch I made my way out to Liverpool street
station, where I had agreed earlier to meet up with my friends to head to
Stansted airport.
Upon arrival to the airport we scurried along to check in as we were flying with Ryanair (reliable for making a buck from anything as my friend Dave found out the hard way on an earlier trip) we had arrived 40minutes earlier than the required check-in time, only to find out our flight was conveniently delayed.
Upon arrival to the airport we scurried along to check in as we were flying with Ryanair (reliable for making a buck from anything as my friend Dave found out the hard way on an earlier trip) we had arrived 40minutes earlier than the required check-in time, only to find out our flight was conveniently delayed.
Fast forward 1.5 hours and we are now finally
lined up like a heard of cattle to board our flight it took us 30minutes before we
actually started moving to get on the aircraft, at this stage you could hear
the annoyance of our fellow passengers, not verbally but from the heaving, panting and sighs
coming from along the line.
Once we were all on board and our luggage was
all stowed away safely above our head, nothing happened... For 35minutes we were
expected to sit in a cabin with no air-conditioning, no water and severely
humidity and the worst part was not one word was said from the captain.... It
was only after a very fiery passenger started hollering abuse at the flight attendants and then turning on fellow passengers -
probably from delirium triggered by the lack of oxygen on board the aircraft -
that the captain finally made an announcement to inform us that aircraft was
struck by lightning on an earlier fight and assured us the flight will commence shortly. The flight did not commence shortly even after several other promises. But lets just say we arrived safely in Porto
( or Oporto to the locals) at 12.40 am when we were suppose to
have been there at 8.20pm!
Overall Ryanair from my experience is very consistent, consistently late and our flight home from Lisboa to Stansted was so late that we ended up walking home from Liverpool station at 3.30am... for an airline that is meant to be saving us money it is not doing a very good job because our time wasted wast worth more than the actual flight itself.
Just Kidding, but it was a very long wait...
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