Reply to: Apprentice candidate on Watchdog for selling pyramid schemes

[expat]

to airport in the middle of nowhere about 100 miles away from Athens

Ryanair do very cheap flights (if you book in advance), but it's just the flight, anything else including checkin is extra. Their airports are defininitely away from it all.

Easyjet do quite cheap flights (if you book at least a little in advance). Most extras are extra. They use real airports (and Luton).

BA, Lufthansa, etc do quite cheap tickets (if you book in advance), it's service included (such as it is), you get a drink and a sandwich, and they use real airports.

The only thing going for Ryanair is how ludicrously cheap the flight itself can be, so the trick is to stick to that. I even opened a bank account that would give me a Visa Electron card, so that I could escape the "credit card" booking charge.

[Bob Dalek]

I saw her on Watchdog. One minute she said that she was running a service that allowed women to empower themselves i.e. "Yes. I am running this scam, only it's not a scam."; the next minute, she said that what had been filmed was nothing more than a few pals chatting idly in a wine bar and nothing more than that, waste of licence payers' money, etc.

The spiv.

[AtW]

I'm flying Easyjet 70 quid return to Athens next week.

to airport in the middle of nowhere about 100 miles away from Athens

[Cyberman]

I'm flying Easyjet 70 quid return to Athens next week. That's pretty good compared to over 200 quid with BA... and BA's service is not that great anyway.

[Cyberman]

They'll be complaining even more when they start falling out of the sky because of maintenance cutbacks.

I'd rather pay a few hundred quid a flight if it means there's less chance of them cutting corners, which they must be doing with the number of incidents being reported recently.

Fortunately none (in western Europe) have turned into disasters, but it's only a matter of time.

I didn't realise that Quantas were a budget airline!!

[NoddY]

She knew her NVQs in Customer Services would come in handy one day.

[AtW]

I beg to differ - I have travelled Flybe recently and found their booking process to be every bit as misleading as Ryanair's

Not every scam is a pyramid scheme.

HTH

[Peoplesoft bloke]

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BA, FLYbe etc. do similar deals and provide a better service, they also detail the extras upfront.

I beg to differ - I have travelled Flybe recently and found their booking process to be every bit as misleading as Ryanair's - what began as a 75 quid return flight was 2 and bit hundred once they had charged me for hold baggage and a range of other odd fees. They were friendlier but nothing else was better than Ryanair and the plane was very cramped.

I agree with Beefy198 - when I fly Ryanair I normally get there on time (never late yet in 20+ flights) and that's about it - but I don't expect any more.

As for the comments about budget airlines not maintaining their planes that's just nonsense IMHO.

[DiscoStu]

I have Royal blood. My nickname amongst my friends is African Princess as I am a Royal descendan

Let me guess, her uncle Prince Olatunde has recently died and she needs somewhere to stash the millions of pounds she's inherited from him, in return for a healthy percentage for whoever helps her. All she needs is a few thousand quid sent to her by Western Union to facilitate the bank transfer.

[zara_backdog]

She is frfom Birmingham. What do you expect?

It's a good job I was brought-up in the Suburbs then

[BrilloPad]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/apprentice/cand...ontestant.html

She is frfom Birmingham. What do you expect?

[PAH]

They'll be complaining even more when they start falling out of the sky because of maintenance cutbacks.

I'd rather pay a few hundred quid a flight if it means there's less chance of them cutting corners, which they must be doing with the number of incidents being reported recently.

Fortunately none (in western Europe) have turned into disasters, but it's only a matter of time.

[Bagpuss]

On a similar note, who are all those idiots complaining about Ryanair? You get what you pay for, if you are propelled by air to another country for a tenner when everyone else charges £150 for the same what do you expect?

"Ooh the on flight facilites aren't quite what I was expecting Norma"

Well therein lies the con, the majority of fliers are paying significantly more than £10. There are only a few cheapo seats per flight. Then, even those paying a 'tenner' are subject to a multitude of hidden fees.

BA, FLYbe etc. do similar deals and provide a better service, they also detail the extras upfront.

[Beefy198]

I loved her passionate defence of the scheme-where-you-pay-in-a-thousand-pounds-and-need-to-get-friends-and-family-to-pay-in-a-thousand-pounds-and-then-they-need-to-get-their-friends-and-family-to-pay-in-a-thousand-pounds-which-isn't-a-pyramid-scheme

Also glad that she told those pesky Watchdog people on my behalf that they were wasting my licence fee money.

On a similar note, who are all those idiots complaining about Ryanair? You get what you pay for, if you are propelled by air to another country for a tenner when everyone else charges £150 for the same what do you expect?

"Ooh the on flight facilites aren't quite what I was expecting Norma"

[Bagpuss]

Yeah she should get a Job with Goldman Sachs