eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeow, ryanair?
you'd be better off swimming, darling.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 20 Apr 2012, 13:30, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

Don't I fucking know it.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 20 Apr 2012, 13:31, Reply)

i've only done easyjet once - never again. it was full of horrific people all pushing to get on board and all going on horrific-sounding £200 all-inclusive package deals and then wondering aloud the whole way home why their holiday was so shit
problem is, i think it's the only way to get to madeira, and i really liked madeira.

ryanair, i hear might be even worse than the orange planes of doom. you have my most sincere sympathy. at least it's a short flight.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 20 Apr 2012, 13:36, Reply)

For short flights they are both fine.
Bristol to Edinburgh takes an hour and costs a fraction of the equivilant rail fare.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 20 Apr 2012, 13:37, Reply)

Oh god, easyjet is BA club class
compared to Ryanair. I don't mind easyjet, as long as you don't actually use if for anything other than UK internal flights it isn't full of cunts (that much)
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 20 Apr 2012, 13:38, Reply)

i know i am a bit of a spoiled snob
but it really does amaze me that people deliberately pick things because they are cheap and then wonder why they are shit. it's like going for a "set menu" - it will not be as nice as the full price options. you know this. that is why it's cheap. now stop whining.

but these people on easyjet... there was no escape from their whining. waaaah waaaaaaaah there was no air con. waaaaaah it was dirty. waaaaaah the pool was overcrowded. we paid £200 for the week for that. WELL WHAT DID YOU EXPECT FOR THAT KIND OF MONEY, A PRIVATE PLANE AND A FIVE STAR HOTEL? idiots.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 20 Apr 2012, 13:44, Reply)

Easyjet UK internal is almost all just business travellers though
especially during the week. It's fine. It's more that it's one of the few options that doesn't involve flying to Heathrow from here, which is a sure fire way to put an hour delay on anything. At least Easyjet are usually on time, which is more than BA to heathrow ever is for an early am flight.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 20 Apr 2012, 13:47, Reply)

mind you, 95% of the time I fly BA to city to avoid the orange
so I shouldn't really defend it.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 20 Apr 2012, 13:48, Reply)

i've never taken an internal UK flight so i will bow to your experience here
i can tell you that gatwick is full of cunts flying orange though.

when my friend and i went to grenada, i had upgraded us as a surprise for her, since she had just had an awful break-up and was in a total mess. the virgin upper section is bang in the middle of all the easyjet counters for some ridiculous reason. we had to cut through easyjet people with our suitcases to get to virgin, and these two very rude (and also orange) bitches said to us aggressively: "er - the queue starts all the way back there, can't you see it?"

pointing out where we were checking in? priceless.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 20 Apr 2012, 13:52, Reply)

I'd rather staple my balls to the ceiling than ever use Gatwick
only if it's geographically impossible to use another airport will I go near it. Or skiing. Ski flights always fucking leave from Gatwick.

It's nothing to do with Easyjet customers. All of Gatwick's patrons are fuckheads of the highest order.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 20 Apr 2012, 13:55, Reply)

i hate gatwick too
heathrow is really easy from kensington. and manchester is about 15 mins from wilmslow, where my dad is. gatwick? add 90 mins of shit. and don't get me started on stanstead. vileness.

so what do you do mostly, edinburgh to city presumably?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 20 Apr 2012, 13:57, Reply)

sorry, meeting
yeah, edinburgh to city.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 20 Apr 2012, 15:03, Reply)

I have flown easyjet several times
You get what you pay for. £50 to prague and another £50 home from Munich? Really not complaining, here. It beat walking.
(berk, Fri 20 Apr 2012, 14:03, Reply)

absolutely - you get what you pay for
people kicking and screaming about what they get when they paid nothing for it? annoying!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 20 Apr 2012, 14:08, Reply)

Ryanair are great.
My favourite bit of the flight is when they introduce the pilot.

'Your Captain today is Paddy O'Shea, Paddy is a veteran of 74 landing, with 37 of those by way of emergency.'

Let's get ready to rumbleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 20 Apr 2012, 13:33, Reply)

they don't let you sit by the emergency exit
unless you pay more. if no-one does, no-one sits there. I'm pretty sure not having someone by the emergency exit contravenes a fuckload of FAA regulations, but hey.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 20 Apr 2012, 13:34, Reply)

was it true or was it daily fail bollocks
that they wanted to have "standing room only" flights, where you strapped yourself to the wall like on the gravitron at alton towers?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 20 Apr 2012, 13:38, Reply)

bollocks probably.
well, Michael O'leary said he was considering it, but he always does that for press attention. Same as the paying to piss.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 20 Apr 2012, 13:40, Reply)

why would he put something so negative out there for publicity?
weird
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 20 Apr 2012, 13:41, Reply)

All of the answers are here
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8779388.stm
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 20 Apr 2012, 13:42, Reply)

it's not negative
when your message is 100% low price over any quality.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 20 Apr 2012, 13:44, Reply)

Nope, it was on the bbc as well
whether that makes it true or not, I'm not sure, but it probably makes it at least 70% less racist.
(berk, Fri 20 Apr 2012, 14:05, Reply)

*watches Jeff wreck the mic*

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 20 Apr 2012, 13:36, Reply)

Psyche.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 20 Apr 2012, 13:36, Reply)