You do pay the airline to get you to your destination, but not always by the flight you planned. It's a really bizarre story: Fog means they can't land at the destination airport, so they divert. Airline provides bus for remainder of journey; this is hardly an unusual occurrence. Instead, they spend 8 hours in the plane to avoid a 4 hour bus journey!

Must be more to it than what was reported. What did they think was going to happen?
(silene, Thu 18 Nov 2010, 9:53, 1 reply)

If I know Ryan Air (and I think I do), they probably left them there and said there is nothing they can do
The standoff probably lead to the bus being provided

/sadly having previously experience of Ryan Air's cuntiness
( Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Thu 18 Nov 2010, 10:02, closed)

that sounds plausible
But, I've said this before about the French, they know how to protest. If it were the Brits, we'd have moaned and put the kettle on
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Thu 18 Nov 2010, 10:17, closed)

Oh yes, I take my hat off to them, they did a great job :)

( Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Thu 18 Nov 2010, 10:19, closed)

Could be. Happened to be once but with Easyjet. They put a bus on, but when it got to the destination airport, it (and public transport links) was shut so they gave me a taxi home at about 6 times the cost of the flight. Very impressed with that from a 'budget' airline, but could imagine Ryanair being less than sympathetic...
(silene, Thu 18 Nov 2010, 11:31, closed)

I've never had a bad experience with Ryanair
Apart from the other passengers but that can't be helped
( Major Turd for tonight only, Thu 18 Nov 2010, 11:55, closed)

This is much more likely to be true.
Ryanair's cherished tradition of not giving a monkey's toss about its passengers was threatening to be exposed once again, so some suit at headquarters said "Somebody call the cheapest coach company we know and get those whinging bastards off our aircraft."
( .Yeti., Thu 18 Nov 2010, 12:05, closed)