What’s important now is you remain calm.
Ryanair passengers who have received compensation for cancelled and delayed flights have been charged extra fees after banks rejected the cheques…
OK, that doesn’t look great but…
One passenger, who waited 11 months for compensation, said she was now worse off after the bank added a fee of 20 euros (£17.94).
There’s obviously a very good reason for…
Several people said their bank had returned cheques they had received from the airline because they were unsigned…
He’s a very busy man with a large successful…
Its financial report shows that in the last year it has paid out 25m euros (£22.4m) in EU261 compensation claims arising from the disruption of its timetable last autumn.
A mere bagatelle…
Since April, more than one million Ryanair passengers in Europe have had delayed or cancelled flights, according to the airline’s own figures.
Nothing Mick can’t handle…
Many could be due £357 for cancelled long haul frights, or £223 for journeys of less than 1,500km….
Would you like a scratchcard?
Ryanair compensation cheques with no signatures ‘bounced’ (BBC)
Ryanair do “long haul”?
Quality. I was on the flight to Zadar that had to divert to Frankfurt after we lost cabin pressure. They sent us travel vouchers instead of cheques; hopefully they actually work.
“Since April, more than one million Ryanair passengers in Europe have had delayed or cancelled flights…
Many could be due £357 for cancelled long haul frights, or £223 for journeys of less than 1,500km….”
I imagine that many of these delays will have been due to the recent industrial action – airlines don’t have to pay out for that, as it is judged to be beyond their control. And they are unlikely to be paying out any compensation for for any long haul flights, as Clampers pointed out.
C –
Must rehash better
Long haul is over 1500km which is anywhere in the Med, South of Iberia, most of Italy and all of Eastern Europe.
I stand corrected.
You’d better sit down.
“Eurocontrol defines short-haul routes as shorter than 1,500 km (810 nmi), medium-haul between 1,500 and 4,000 km (810 and 2,160 nmi) and long-haul routes as longer than 4,000 km (2,200 nmi).
The Association of European Airlines defines Long-haul as flights to Americas, sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Australasia and medium haul as flights to north Africa and Middle East.
Air Berlin defines short and medium-haul as flights to Europe/northern Africa and long-haul to the rest of the world.
Air France defines short haul as domestic, medium haul as within Europe/North Africa and long haul as the rest of the world. “
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_length#Categories
I also stand corrected.
Consider me shocked, appalled, AND greviously insulted, edalicious.
Ryanair are deliberately 20th century. No email, send it by fax, eventually you get a(n unsigned) cheque. When they mess you around in the hopes of you just going away, take your case to the Small Claims Court. If the SCC decides it’s a valid claim, you’ll be sorted quickly with no faffing from Ryanair permitted!
Lots of them are. I was in credit with Eir recently & rather than transfer it to my new account, or throw it into my bank account, they want to send you a cheque.
If you win amounts on the lotto online, its into your account with them to spend in more gambling.. ir a cheque if you really insist on the winnings. They also have your bank account details.
Irish water refunds, it was cheques as well. They are well capable of putting the money back into people’s bank accounts.
Why are airlines different from other retailers? If you buy a pair of red shoes and decide they won’t go with your new outfit, you’re entitled to bring them back, unworn, and get every penny back.
If you cancel a flight, the rules are different. Why on earth is this? Even if you cancel it in plenty of time, and the airline can sell your seat again – for a far higher price, indeed – you’re not entitled to your full money back. It’s completely wrong.
@small ads:
” If you buy a pair of red shoes and decide they won’t go with your new outfit, you’re entitled to bring them back, unworn, and get every penny back. ”
Um. No you’re not. Some retailers choose to offer that as an extra service. But by law you do not have that right.
You have no grounds for redress if
[…]
•You made a mistake when buying the item (for example, if you bought an item of clothing thinking it was black when it is actually navy)
•You change your mind
From http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/consumer_affairs/consumer_protection/consumer_rights/consumers_and_the_law_in_ireland.html
Not if you buy online… you have 14 days cool-off period during which you CAN change your mind…
The shop doesn’t have to refund you for those shoes, but they do it because they see the value in making their customers happy.
Has O’Leary been getting financial advice from Trump? Sounds so scammy
I’ll never go back to Ryanair
horrendous carry on. but i’d say O’Leary knows one thing that will save him .. ireland is brimming full of people who forgive and forget extremely quickly. Fianna Fail completely destroyed the country, and got back in shared power after only one term out of power. Bertie Ahern does talks for god sake.. and people go. they pay and go. This will all blow over for ryanair. Ideally people would boycott them after this, and FF would’nt even exist. But people still act habitually, fly ryanair vote FF. thats what majority will still do.
People fly Ryanair because they are usually miles cheaper than the alternative, not beacuse of some sort of collective national amnesia.