Has anyone else had a near death experience with a certain 'budget' Irish airline??

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Sue

Possibly this is the same airline my daughter used to travel from Europe to Dublin - she wondered at the time why all the (Irish) passengers spontaneously applauded when the plane landed safely. You could have just provided the reason for this.

Pope my ride!

Although I have had bad experiances flying in the past with various airlines around the world, both cheap and expensive, I will point out there is a number of good reasons not to walk under the wing of any plane that has just landed,
1. To prevent discharge of any static electricity build up directly to your head.
2 because the wings are full of fuel vapour, if number one happened, not only would you be dead, but also a large number of other people.
3 so that ground staff can get to the wing to refuel it so they can take off again.
4 so that whingeing people dont roam all over the runway, getting in the way of other plans being landed badly.
Also, a lot of budget airlines dont get towed in on the account they are budget, and paying for bays and tunnels all costs money, which if they paid for, they would not be budget.
Turbulance is an everyday occurence in the world of flying, even the most expensive of airlines use the same planes as the cheap guys, all that differs is turnaround time, the mechanical basics of the plane remain the same.

Marie

i didnt fly on this airline but on my way back from spain it was snowing and there were sparks comming off the ends of the wings i was on a different budget airline that also has no proper seats andit wasnt fun

charl203

my horror is that they charged me Â£80 excess baggage- this was 4 times the amount of the flight's original cost and what annoyed me most was that i didn't have any handluggage. this was shortly after 9/11 when handluggage was supposed to be kept to a minimum, so i did- and got penalised for it as they don't advertise that you're allowed almost as much for handluggage!
with that in mind i have usedd them again several times as they are mega cheap if you book at the right time.

Jon B

I try and avoid flying with those happy bunch, but sometime I have to. I did hear a load of horror stories about them from someone who works for an airline with real seats. Pilots have to pay for their own interview if they want to join and many of the pilots do not have the proper ratings for different conditions when flying, so if the weather is doing something that they can't fly into then you are stuffed!

I could go on and on with this one.........

metcalve79

For someone who has been flying so long it surprises me that you are still so ignorant about it. I think you are just not used to budget airlines, that's all.

soccerknocker199

no i havnt

burntumber

Blaming an airline because it's a budget airline is kind of childish (no offence),
as flight problems can happen on ANY airplane,run by any company.
xxx

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