Web: www.thetravelstrategist.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 18/05/2009 – Ryanair’s New Fee To ‘Check In’ & The Real Cost Of Some Low Cost Carriers Everyday hundreds of thousands of travellers take to the internet to search for the lowest airfare for their travels. Eventually many of these travellers with find themselves at the website of a Low-Cost-Carrier…
Web: www.fishfoto.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 14/03/2009 – Ryanair Asks Passengers To Decide New On-Board Fees Ryanair is well known for its odd publicity stunts and even more infamous for its on-board fees. I can make dozens of “cheap” jokes about Ryanair, their removal of passenger window shades, installing non-reclining seats…and even the customized 737-800s they…
Web: www.twitter.com/flyingwithfish — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 04/03/2009 – New Low Cost Airlines Fees Hit A New Low Airlines instituted fees for purchasing tickets on the phone quite a few years ago. The flying public complained, but the fees stayed in place. Some airlines followed up with instituting additional fees for purchasing a ticket in person at…
Web: www.twitter.com/flyingwithfish — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 11/02/2009 – What Would You Do If You Ran The Airline? Yesterday USA Today ran a travel column by David Grossman entitled “What would you do if you were CEO of a major airline?” The timing of David’s column for me comes after a significant time of thinking about this…
Web: www.comeflywithfish.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 27/01/2009 – Can An Airline Be No Frills & Friendly? One UK Carrier Says Yes! Can a low cost carrier offer competitive fares and still provide its passengers with good friendly service? Using the premise of customer service, Northern England based low cost carrier Jet2 (www.jet2.com) launched an all out…
Web: www.thetravelstrategist.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 30/12/2008 – Why Is A Cactus Pushing From The Gate? : Airport Radio Jargon Late last week I received an e-mail from a reader of Flying With Fish trying to understand what they were listening to on United Airlines‘ Channel 9. Passengers who fly United Airlines can listen to the…
Web: www.stevenfrischling.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 16/12/2008 – Airline Carry-On Baggage Restrictions : An Extreme Example Recently while researching the somewhat inconsistent rules of carry on baggage in the United Kingdom I stumbled upon something rather extreme being set for by Ryanair. What is Ryanair’s extreme carry-on baggage restriction, and how does it affect traveling photographers?…
