Budget airline Ryanair, of the standing room-only cabins idea, has big plans for its Irish rival Aer Lingus. But it can’t get down to that happy future of slashing customer comfort and stripping the flying experience down to bare bones just yet because the European Union has blocked its third attempt to acquire its competitor. [More]
Budget Airline Ryan Air Appeals Third Blocked Bid To Buy Rival Aer Lingus
By February 27, 2013
Ryanair CEO Wants Standing Room Only Cabins Because Duh, Seatbelts Are Useless
By November 8, 2012
Surprise! Okay, no surprise: Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary is back to his cheeky ways, claiming he wants to do away with laws requiring passengers to wear seatbelts on planes because they’re useless. And if people don’t have to be sitting, he could use all that wasted space in the cabin to sell standing room only spots in the cabin for as low as £1 to European destinations. [More]
Aer Lingus Really Doesn't Want Ryanair To Be All Up In Its Business Anymore
By May 22, 2012
Aer Lingus scored a hit against fellow Irish airline Ryanair in court today, which will allow British authorities to continue investigating the cheapo carriers over its ownership of a 30% stake in Aer Lingus. [More]
Musicians: Ryanair Charges Unnecessary Fees For Stowing Instruments
By April 18, 2012
For years, cheapo airlines like Ryanair have acted like flying tour buses for up-and-coming musicians in Europe. But some musically inclined travelers say the fee-happy carrier recently made it harder on them by tacking on unfair charges for passengers traveling with instruments of any size. [More]
Ryanair To Flight Crew: Hey, Fatties — Lose Weight So We Can Save On Fuel
By April 4, 2012
Right when you thought CEO of cut-rate airline Ryanair Michael O’Leary and his merry gang of misfit toys couldn’t introduce more ridiculous ideas in their efforts to be the cheapest in all the land, a company spokesman says they even take flight crew to task on the topic of dieting. You know, to save on fuel from not carting around so many fatties. [More]
Ryanair CEO Needs Police Escort After Gloating In Front Of Laid-Off Workers
By February 8, 2012
Michael O’Leary, CEO of bargain-basement European airline Ryanair, is no stranger to stirring up controversy. But this is probably the first time one of his antics has resulted in him requiring police protection. [More]
Ryanair's In-Flight Porn App Would Let You Join The Mile-High Club All By Yourself
By November 9, 2011
Michael O’Leary, CEO of cheapo European airline Ryanair, is taking a break from his plans to remove toilets from his planes to talk up his idea for an app that would allow passengers to do everything from gamble to watch porn. [More]
Ryanair Now Planning To Remove Toilets From Planes
By October 12, 2011
It’s been more than a year since we’ve heard much about cheapy European airline Ryanair’s grand plan to charge people to use the toilet. That’s because the carrier has apparently ditched the scheme in favor of simply removing two out of three toilets from each of their planes. [More]
Cheap Flights Are A Lie, Hai-Diddly-Ai
By September 6, 2011
This little ditty lampoons the whole dirt-cheap flight industry that attracts flyers with super low fares and then adds on fee after fee. It’s sung by the British comedy singing group Fascinating Aïda in the style of an Irish folk song and is clearly a dig at Ryan Air. It’s also pretty amusing, and true. [More]
Ryanair Treats Passenger For Cardiac Arrest With A Sandwich
By August 4, 2011
A Ryanair passenger’s family is angry with the airline because they say their father had a heart attack on the airplane and all the crew gave him was a sandwich. They also made him pay for the sandwich. [More]
Spirit Airlines To Charge $5 To Print Your Boarding Pass For You
By June 21, 2011
Bottom-dollar carrier Spirit Airlines is trying very hard to become the Ryanair of the U.S., announcing that it will soon begin charging travelers $5 to have a boarding pass printed by a Spirit staffer at the airport. [More]
Ryanair Launches "Child Free Flights"
By April 1, 2011
Most proclamations by RyanAir, the Irish “jet strapped to a metal pole” low-cost airline, sound like April Fool’s jokes anyway but at least their attempt today is right on message. RyanAir announced they are introducing “child free flights” starting late this year. “When it comes to children we all love our own but would clearly prefer to avoid other people’s little monsters when travelling,” said RyanAir’s head of communications Stephen McNamara in a press release. Staying classy is not what this airline is selling. [More]
100 Students Removed From Ryanair Flight Over Baggage Fee Fracas
By February 7, 2011
The scene of student revolt on a Ryanair plane was like something out of Berkeley in the ’60s… Except it wasn’t about the Vietnam war, it was about baggage fees. So okay, it wasn’t exactly like Berkeley, but there were a bunch of pissed-off college students. [More]
Getting To Know You: All About The New Friends We Made In 2010
By December 31, 2010
Behind every buzzworthy headline of the past year has been someone in charge, someone to blame, or just someone to laugh at and talk about. From the debacle of Toyota’s millions of recalled automobiles, to a fed-up flight attendant with a flair for drama, we’ve become familiar with a few new faces in 2010, for better or for worse. [More]
Enraged Passengers Refuse To Leave Plane
By November 17, 2010
A group of French tourists refused to leave the plane for four hours after it landed in protest of how they were treated. [More]
Meet The Airline Seat That Will Destroy Your Crotch
By September 10, 2010
Though most airline manufacturers and insiders have scoffed at the idea of “standing room” seats on jets, someone has come up with an airplane chair that is simultaneously more feasible and more uncomfortable. Meet the crotch-crushing SkyRider! [More]
Ryanair's Newest Cost Cutting Idea: Remove Second Pilot
By September 7, 2010
Did Ryanair’s publicity-chasing CEO Michael O’Leary read about that American Airlines flight back in June? In a recent interview, he suggested that one way to reduce costs would be to get rid of the second pilot and just make sure every flight has a flight attendant with a pilot’s license. [More]
