nice one Greg :)

haha spot on! Accounting for 2% of emissions is exactly the reason airlines SHOULD pay.

Soon it will be just as cheap, and more pleasant, to fly Aer Lingus.

It’s just a b*tch about Ryanair. If someone at the journal (let’s call them a journalist for arguments sake) had done a bit of work, rang around some other airlines and found that no one else was passing on the charge then it might actually be a story.

I wouldn’t blame the Journal on this one, Aaron… I’m sure it’s more likely that Ryanair shoved out a press release about it knowing, as they do, that for them, there’s no such thing as bad press.

I’m sure they did issue a press release Niall as if they didn’t we’d be reading a different piece next week b*tching about how Ryanair had imposed a new stealth charge without telling any one.

All I want is for the person writing the story to do a little background work and give us the details across the industry. Even finding out how much this charge is going to cost the airlines would put the 25cent increase into perspective.

@ Cillian, this seems to illustrate the point that all taxes are ultimately borne by the consumer.
This should be considered also with respect to the proposed Tobin tax.

Its not being levied by the EU at all, in the same way that the 261 ‘charge’ is not a levy either. The EU gets no money from Ryanair from the 261 charge

What a nerdy comment, i like!

Very good
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Why don’t you just fly Aer Lingus where everything is double the price, but at least everything is given to you in one number?

The £70 check in is a bit steep alright but you are failing to see what the man is trying to do with HIS airline. He wants Ryanair to be a walk on walk off airline, carry on baggage only. That way he can cut costs with Baggage Handlers, reduced airport rental, close check in desks etc etc, all leading to reduced costs and quicker turn around times. If people are unhappy with the costs go to another airline, simple!

Not the case Cillian. Checking a bag into Are Lingus does not cost €70 and the cost of the flight itself is fairly on par with Ryanair. Not to mention the fact that for most of their routes, Ryanair fly into fields 50 miles outside of the supposed destination.

He doesn’t have to justify sh*t. If you don’t want to fly with him then don’t. It’s not him, It’s the nanny state making it more and more expensive to fly. Grow a brain

@ Colin: Fair point – I see what direction he’s bringing the airline but I don’t agree with it. I personally don’t fly Ryanair anymore after one too many bad experiences. I don’t think he’s trying to cut out baggage handlers altogether either, I think he’s trying to capitalize on consumers who do need to check in a bag when traveling.

@ Dave: Nice troll.

Love these idiots that have dedicated twitter accounts just to troll internet boards. Afraid someone you know will see you acting like a douche? Get a life.

Do you think the reduction of carbon emissions doesn’t cost money? Free lunch in economics? Statist fail?

That was to Paris btw

Which is a good price unless you actually want to go to Paris and not Beauvais.

For 50 bucks it’s close enough for me. It’s only a tenner for the bus to the city centre.

O’Leary at EU’s innovation conference; highly entertaining IMO.
http://www.creativeminorityreport.com/2011/12/who-is-john-galt-michael-oleary-thats.html?m=1

Haha, good video, he’s a brazen fecker. You have to admire his marketing ability- some genius PR stunts.

Are they? They tried to charge me 900 to fly to Malta. It was 500 to fly the states return.

But surely that only happens to idiots that can’t measure a bag before hand to see if it fits?

Either way, the fact is – they do choose to put themselves through that “crap”. “choose” being the main word in the sentence. Do you have a problem with that?
McDonald’s is also cheap and not very super duper, however, every time I walk into one in Douglas, Cork it is always packed to the fu*king rim. Economics rulzz

At least one man with a brain

How?

The main problem with Ireland is that it has become grossly inefficient. It’s as bloated as any socialist state can get. It’s as bloated and expensive to run as Aer Lingus was when it had a monopoly (such I say duopoly) with BA in the 80’s. It cost me two & a half weeks wages to fly Cork-London. Now with O’Leary it costs a few hours wages. Probably 75% of the total money earned by those working in Ireland is wasted by the state.

The huge debts the government has claimed for the Irish tax payer from the banks is symptomatic of government interference in business. It’s simple, as O’Leary would say, screw up go bust.

If O’Leary ran Ireland then the multi-generational dole families would have to work just as the 400,000 Poles who came here did. Government wasteful spending would be slashed and we would become hyper efficient. The result of that would be far lower and less taxes, more jobs and just like Ryanair rapid expansion into the also bloated socialist economies of the EU.

The main problem with Ireland is that it has become grossly inefficient. It’s as bloated as any socialist state can get. It’s as bloated and expensive to run as the state owned Aer Lingus was when it had a monopoly (such I say duopoly) with BA in the 80’s. It cost me two & a half weeks wages to fly Cork-London. Now with O’Leary it costs a few hours wages. Probably 75% of the total money earned by those working in Ireland is wasted by the state.

The huge debts the government has claimed for the Irish tax payer from the banks is symptomatic of government interference in business. It’s simple as O’Leary would say, screw up go bust.

If O’Leary ran Ireland then the multi-generational dole families would have to find work just as the 400,000 Poles did. Government wasteful spending would be slashed and we would become hyper efficient. The result of that would be far lower and less taxes, more jobs and just like Ryanair rapid expansion into the also bloated socialist economies of the EU.

Would you be an idiot who can’t grasp that there are different people with different ability to pay?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRVDOa1lU1U&feature=related

But I was under the impression that the nanny state was taking care of the “most vulnerable”. Hmm, I guess socialism fails yet again. Socialism is where the most vulnerable get fu*ked the most

Start your own airline then…

I couldn’t agree less

What? If the looserlingus is cheaper then why the fu*k do people fly Ryanair at all? The market says something completely different and there is a reason why Ryanair is growing at such a rate. Ryanair is filling a spot in the market that the looserlingus has never, isn’t and never will fill. Reality check

Shite, sorry, ignore that, I refreshed the page and my first post didn’t show so I thought you’d deleted it.

Heh, I was wondering! For the record, we’d only ever delete a comment if it breaks our Comments Policy. We’re good like that.

Will ye change the picture for the article, Jesus his face is annoying!