Booking a Ryanair flight via an online travel agent might hold a nasty surprise

Re:Booking a Ryanair flight via an online travel agent might... by fragmede on Saturday July 29, 2023 @07:56AM (#36919348)

It sucks to be treated poorly, and to get nickel and dimed on every little thing until you just end up paying more than flying a less shitty carrier. Framing it as the petit bourgeois are mad that the proles can afford to fly ignores who loses in a the race to the bottom, and the misery it begets.

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Re:Booking a Ryanair flight via an online travel agent might... by veave on Saturday July 29, 2023 @08:02AM (#36919399)

Which is why you can pay more to be treated better. But some are upset that paying more isn't the only option.

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Re:Booking a Ryanair flight via an online travel agent might... by fatfingerd on Saturday July 29, 2023 @08:35AM (#36919668)

It's not really that simple. When standards go lower paying for the old standard often becomes much more expensive. There aren't really ideal economic markets so choices are not on a perfect spectrum to match consumers, rather aspects of production or in this case limited route rights mean a low price option eliminates the choice one wants.

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Re:Booking a Ryanair flight via an online travel agent might... by rewmie on Saturday July 29, 2023 @10:02AM (#36920417)

> Which is why you can pay more to be treated better.

Being treated with respect is now a premium service? And how exactly does a company profit from acting like an asshole?

I fly exclusively on low cost airlines, and Ryanair is the only reason I use the "exclude airline from search results" feature. Their labor practices are also abhorrent.

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