Tag Archives: Ryanair

Screen Scraping Websites – Anything I can do?

The term “screen scraping” refers to automated processes that some people run which go off to a website and scans/copies the content [...]

Top Tip when booking online for anything

In this post last week, I referred to this thread on Conor Popes Pricewatch blog where there was some discussion on the [...]

World Cup Play Off Flights Uproar – ignore the grandstanding!

Following a close second in the pointless and non-newsworthy headlines stakes, we saw this beauty last Tuesday “Shameless rip-off as airlines hike [...]

THAT Ryanair John O’Donoghue newspaper advert

Ridiculous consumer views about Ryanair

This thread on Pricewatch recently, which I’ve referred to a few times already, is a gold mine of information and absolute stupidity. [...]

Ireland deserves foreign holidays!

A few times over the past couple of weeks (over a few pints mind you), the term entitlement and the Irish race [...]

Pop Quiz: Why do you fly Ryanair?

Ryanair describes itself as “the worlds favourite airline” in its press releases. It frequently provides the cheapest fares on its routes compared [...]

Another readers question about Ryanair website advertising

Irish News of the World
May, 2009
Diarmuid MacShane
Question:
I was on the Ryanair website recently where I saw flights advertised to Poland for €22.79, [...]

Consumer News Weekend Short Stack

Here’s a few things for the weekend:

Ben Goldacre / Bad Science – If you don’t read Ben’s column in the Guardian, or [...]

Ryanair complaint – long saga for Australian traveller

I received this letter from a very frustrated Ryanair passenger recently – an Australian travelling from London to Dublin with Ryanair.
While I [...]