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We were flying from Bournemouth to Dublin for the weekend. We arrived at the airport at midday for our 2pm flight to be told that it was going to be delayed, by 6 hours. Annoying enough but we decided to go off to find a local pub and keep phoning through for updates, so not too terrible.

After 5 hours we return to the airport and discover that it's now going to be 7 hours.

7th hour arrives and we board the plane, which apparantally was delayed due to engine issues. Plane taxis out onto the runway, plane taxis back to terminal, further engine issues, another delay.

Hour and a half later we take off. The flight itself is simple enough, and we start to fly over Dublin airport expecting to begin our descent, only to be informed that the airport is closed due to a fuel leak on the runway and we have been redirected to Shannon.

Another hour and a half's wait at Shannon plus about 20 minutes each way to get there and back.

Our flight which was supposed to land in Dublin at about 3pm finally came into land at around midnight and the nice first-night meal we'd hoped for came from a pizza place. Admittedly it was the nicest pizza I've had in a long time.

It was quite a laugh really as most of the groups on the plane were stag and hen parties game for a laugh, all ready to take the piss out of the poor cabin crew who had to do the safety demonstrations three times, and everyone was generally quite good about it, but it'll take a good reason for me to want to fly with Ryanair again any time soon.

If Michael O'Leary won't apologise for shoddy customer service then I will make no apologies for length.
(daylightroddery, Thu 7 Sep 2006, 22:48, Reply)