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Category Archives: Ryanair

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Ryanair Vs. SAS: Dueling “We Will Fly Again” Music Videos

Matthew Klint Posted onJune 19, 2020June 19, 2020 6 Comments
Ryanair SAS Music Video

What do you do when you are a flight attendant or pilot and 90% of flights are cancelled? You make a music video of course. Today we have two videos for your viewing pleasure, one from Ryanair and one...

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Discount Airlines May Be Coronavirus Travel Remedy

Kyle Stewart Posted onMay 31, 2020September 13, 2021 2 Comments
Ryanair Misleading Ad

Airlines are suffering along with other businesses during the coronavirus crisis. But discount airlines may be just the remedy that the travel industry needs. If you are considering booking travel or signing up for a new credit card please click here. Both support LiveAndLetsFly.com....

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Ryanair Vows To Fight “Illegal Subsidy” For Lufthansa

Matthew Klint Posted onMay 27, 2020 5 Comments
Ryanair Illegal Subsidy Lufthansa

Never one to shy away from controversy, Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary is on the warpath after Lufthansa and Germany reached an agreement on a €9 billion aid package. Calling the aid an “illegal subsidy”, Ryanair has vowed to fight it....

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Ryanair Chief Delivers Ultimatum To Irish Government

Matthew Klint Posted onApril 23, 2020April 23, 2020 9 Comments
Ryanair Chief Ultimatum

The combative CEO of Ryanair has mocked onboard social distancing and warned that if the Irish government forces it on commercial flights, Ryanair will not fly. But is his ultimatum credible? “Either the government pays for the middle seat...

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Ryanair CEO Condemns “Hysteria” Over Coronavirus

Matthew Klint Posted onMarch 4, 2020March 4, 2020 5 Comments
Ryanair Coronavirus

Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary is not happy over coronavirus coverage, savaging what he calls the “lunacy” and “hysteria” of social media pandemonium. O’Leary has never been one to hold back words and was very blunt in an interview with Sky...

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Law In TravelRyanair

Ryanair Ads Banned For Misleading Consumers

Matthew Klint Posted onFebruary 7, 2020February 7, 2020 2 Comments
Ryanair Misleading Ad

Irish budget carrier Ryanair has been told by the United Kingdom that its latest ad campaign must end and causes consumer confusion. Ryanair claims to be “Europe’s low CO2 emissions airline”. Its TV and radio ads cite the carrier’s...

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Flight ReviewsRyanair

Ryanair 737 Review [2019]

Matthew Klint Posted onSeptember 5, 2019May 31, 2020 10 Comments
Ryanair 737 Review

I briefly offered my thoughts on Ryanair just after the flight, but I’ve never actually published a full review of Ryanair before. You might think there is not much to say about a budget carrier in economy class, but...

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Ryanair Accused Of Asking Autistic Teen To Pay Extra Baggage Fee For His Emotional Support Doll

Matthew Klint Posted onMay 3, 2019May 3, 2019 6 Comments

Ryanair is firmly denying that asked an autistic teenager to pay up to check-in his “comfort” doll. Helen Estella wrote on Facebook that her son Leo experienced a meltdown after Ryanair staff told him he’d have to pay to...

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After Flight Diverts From Greece To Romania, Ryanair Suggests Bus For Last 750KM…

Matthew Klint Posted onJanuary 10, 2019January 10, 2019 6 Comments

Leave it Ryanair to suggest passengers take a bus from Romania to Greece after a flight diversion. What? It’s only about 500 miles. A perfect weekend in sunny Thessaloniki, one of my favorite cities in Greece. What could wrong?...

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France Seizes Ryanair 737 In Bordeaux, Kicks Passengers Off

Matthew Klint Posted onNovember 13, 2018November 13, 2018 4 Comments
France Seizes Ryanair 737

Ignore warning letters at your own risk: eventually patience runs out. France’s patience indeed ran out last Thursday, as it grew tired of Ryanair’s failure to even acknowledge a bill of 525,000EUR. The Irish budget carrier had received “incentives” to...

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Three Twists In The Ryanair “Staged Photo” Story

Matthew Klint Posted onOctober 18, 2018October 18, 2018 6 Comments
Ryanair staged photo update

Yesterday I wrote about a viral picture of a Ryanair crew forced to sleep on the floor in Malaga Airport after a weather diversion. Ryanair claimed, via chief operating officer Peter Bellew on Twitter, that the whole thing was...

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Ryanair Dismisses Viral Photo Of 737 Crew Sleeping On Airport Floor

Matthew Klint Posted onOctober 17, 2018 7 Comments
Ryanair Crew Airport Floor

Ryanair is calling a viral photo of a 737 crew sleeping on the floor of Malaga Airport “staged” and misleading. And while I am usually a harsh critic of Ryanair, I’m somewhat sympathetic to its argument. The picture below,...

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Passengers Unite To “Bring Down” Ryanair

Matthew Klint Posted onOctober 1, 2018September 30, 2018 7 Comments
Ryanair Boycott

In case you missed it across the pond, Ryanair just experienced the biggest strike in its history over the weekend. Now angry passengers across Europe are vowing to “bring down” the airline through a sustained boycott. Strikes at Ryanair...

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Law In TravelRyanair

Ryanair Finds The Perfect Way To Make Customers Hate It More

Matthew Klint Posted onAugust 25, 2018August 25, 2018 3 Comments

One way to fight an ongoing labor strike is to rally customers to your side. You might think Ryanair would be pulling out all the stops to make customers happy during this turbulent labor period. Instead, Ryanair is pouring...

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Live and Let’s Fly Weekend Digest: August 05, 2018

Matthew Klint Posted onAugust 5, 2018August 5, 2018 Leave a Comment
Wynn Las Vegas Review

After a lot of domestic travel last week, it has been nice to spend the last two days at home. Another trip, however, is on the horizon. More details on that in the days ahead. Here’s a review of...

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Ryanair Spits In The Face Of Customers

Matthew Klint Posted onAugust 4, 2018August 4, 2018 12 Comments
Ryanair Denies EU261

As labor unrest has hammered Ryanair, the carrier is only digging itself into a deeper hole by waging a two-front war against its own employees…and now its customers. I’ve written twice this week about the labor issues currently going...

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Law In TravelRyanair

Ryanair Strikes Expand Across Europe

Matthew Klint Posted onAugust 3, 2018August 3, 2018 6 Comments
Ryanair European Strikes

Earlier this week I wrote about the collapse of Ryanair as strikes continued to plague the budget carrier. The problem is only getting worse. Strikes have already occurred in Belgium, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. That led to the...

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Ryanair

The Sudden Collapse Of Ryanair

Matthew Klint Posted onJuly 30, 2018July 30, 2018 10 Comments

Spain? Strike. Portugal? Strike. Belgium? Strike. Italy? Strike. Ireland? Strike. It has not been a good month for Ryanair… The Irish-based carrier is facing a summer of discontent as labor strife across its European bases spirals into total disaster....

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A Hot Meal on Ryanair

Matthew Klint Posted onJune 16, 2018June 16, 2018 4 Comments
Ryanair Meal Service

This week’s Meal of the Week takes us back to 2011 and a hot lunch I enjoyed on Ryanair. It was a crisp, spring day and my brother and I had booked an incredibly cheap fare from Frankfurt Hahn...

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Live and Let’s Fly Weekend Digest: July 30, 2017

Matthew Klint Posted onJuly 31, 2017 1 Comment
China Eastern 777-300ER

Greetings from Southern California. My family is now re-united in LA and I’m happy to remain on the ground this week as I prepare for my next big trip. My RTW trip report stalled this week — the photos...

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