Tag Archives: Ryanair

Ireland’s Departure Tax – which came first, the tax or the drop in passengers

The topic of this blog post has been going around in my head for some time now, never quite making the light [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]