Dec 07 2008
in which I take a moment to whinge about ryanair
Yes, RyanAir is cheap, especially if you actually manage to hit one of their sales right so you get a seat for free/£1/£5/£10 instead of “free, but oh wait here’s 30+ pounds of taxes and fees and crap”. There’s a reason they’re so cheap. Most other airlines will not plaster seat backs and overhead bins with advertising, nor will they make you pay even for drinks. They also generally use jetways instead of making you walk through the rain or whatever to the plane–although, bizarrely enough, on the flight from Katowice to Stansted, they loaded everyone into a bus and drove us, like, 50 yards to the airplane. It was definitely no longer than I’d walked on my other RyanAir flights and maybe even shorter. It was totally weird.
Normal airlines also don’t use pre-recorded announcements or radio advertisements over the intercom, which are awesome if you’re trying to sleep. Nor do they play loops of really annoying music while everyone’s boarding. They fly into non-podunk airports. And maybe most importantly…normal airlines don’t seem to have a client base made almost entirely of STUPID PEOPLE.
Will expand on this later. Need bed now.
