Ryanair On Line Check In = Con?

[Michael]

> My first choice for short haul is normally BA. Their fares can very often
> be cheaper than Easyjet and Ryanair and they normally fly to the main
> airport, not some out of the way airstrip somewhere.
>
> MC
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I would love to have the option of flying BA short haul (and I flew with
them several times from Manchester in the past), but these days if you don't
live anywhere near London BA aren't interested in transporting you.

[Theo Markettos]

tim.... <tims_new_home**********.uk> wrote:
>
> IME you only have a problem with FR if it's the last (return) flight of
> the day, so unless that is the EZY flight you were on I'm not convinced
> that the comparison is valid

I've been on the last inbound Easyjet flight of the day ATH-LTN where the
outbound aircraft had a technical fault and couldn't fly (I think they had
some range problems with their 737s a few years ago, because the Athens run
was a 757 wet-leased from Air Finland. That one aircraft failing meant we
were stuck). In what I assume must be less than an hour they hired a
standby 757 and crew based at Stansted which flew over to Luton, picked up
the outbound pax, flew to Athens, drop them and picked us up, and flew back.
Because Luton had closed by this point for runway maintenance (twas about
1am - we arrived 2 hours late) they flew us to Stansted and laid on buses
back to Luton.

I've nothing but praise for the way they handled it, which would put some
scheduled airlines to shame...

(and I hate to think how much it cost them to do this)

Theo