Flying with Ryanair.

May of us have probably flown with low cost airlines in the last few years. e.g. Ryanair. This is probably due to the fact that thank to their strong marketing of selling cheap flight it is often cheaper to get a short city hop flight then it is to get a taxi back home after a night out on the town.

Thanks to their policy using smaller regional/ former military airports, they have managed to introduce more routes and increased competition amoungest airports and have help develop local employment and local business. For example the establishment of the airport itself, services to go along with that airport, (up to an hour bus trip into the city centre). The increase in income generated by an increase in visitor numbers. They all have to sleep and eat some where.

Now while we all may enjoy the cheap flights, I'm sure a large many of you out there like myself have had a bad experience with ryanair. My main complaint a being charged for excess baggage, delayed flights, no being allowed to board my flight as the closed the gate 20mins before the depart time. But hey I still return to them. Possibly because they are often the only option.

But beside these bad experience, I still fly with Ryanair. If you obey their rule you should not get in trouble, especially with their baggage allowance.

So to cheap Ryanair flight, how do we know if we are really getting a bargain??

Compare and do comparison with other online airline, include baggage charge and credit charges also.

Check-in on-line, Ryanair charges extra if you check-in at the airport,
If you are checking online, remember you can only bring 1 item of hand lugguage and all the issues this raises. You have an allowance of 10kg for hand luggage, bring along a bag that will fit in airport shopping.


If you decide to check baggage, book online it is chaeper, but stay within the Limits!!!! 15 kg with Ryanair.

Finally Ryanair charges a credit card fee. per person per flight. the charge this even if you use there own Ryanair credit card.The only way at the moment to avoid this charge is use something called Visa Electron. As of yet I do not any bank in Ireland that issues this card.

But dont dispair, if you use Entropay, which is an online charge card, the ryanair website see this as a visa electron card and so you are not charge a credit card fee.

The cost of using entropay, (http://www.entropay.com)a lot less then the credit card fee.

If you flight a lot like me. this can amount to a large saving.

Good luck

Bk