every time I book flights it becomes more and more apparent that the entire airline industry is trending toward RyanAir and I cannot overstate how much I hate it
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I don't have a fear of flying so much as a fear of airports and airlines and border control
aug 23, 2025, 6:15 am • 5 0 • view
Yeah. I just had to pay an extra 40 pounds each way to sit next to my wife on a 4.5 hour flight to the Canary Islands. On British airways.
aug 23, 2025, 7:44 am • 1 0 • view
This particularly grinds my gears. Book 4 seats. Oh, you want to be *together*? 💸💸💸 Like, just fill up the seating plan as bookings come in.
aug 23, 2025, 9:00 am • 1 0 • view
It wouldn’t be as big of a kick in the nuts if they also had Ryanair prices.
aug 23, 2025, 6:10 am • 4 0 • view
I think mandatory taxes and fees add up to more than that, sadly.
aug 23, 2025, 12:34 pm • 0 0 • view
It is why I prefer to take the train if I can.
aug 23, 2025, 3:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Return to the tradition of road trips and roadside motels*. *Assuming you can drive here you are going. I’m pretty resigned to just not going many places since it’s hell to do deal with the airport as well as the nickel and diming.
aug 23, 2025, 5:29 am • 5 0 • view
It’s frustrating because flying was a basically ok experience for my entire childhood and the first 20 years of my adult life. I now live across the country from my family because I took for granted that flying wouldn’t be expensive hell.
aug 23, 2025, 2:59 pm • 3 0 • view
One of the reasons why I don't try to overcome my aviophobia. Only #traivelling (plus the occasional ferry) within Europe.
aug 23, 2025, 5:31 am • 2 0 • view
And the damn private equity bros took the last good thing we had in Southwest and turned it into this fee-filled shit, too.
aug 23, 2025, 11:14 am • 4 0 • view
I would like to have a Word with the creator of "Basic Economy"
aug 23, 2025, 8:01 am • 11 0 • view
It certainly makes choosing to fly as little as possible feel like much less of a sacrifice.
aug 23, 2025, 6:36 am • 12 0 • view
Haven't flown since 2017 and I don't miss it AT ALL. I'm about to do a little traveling around the country, and I can not even tell you how excited I am about trains. 🤩
aug 23, 2025, 5:31 pm • 2 0 • view
But without the cheap prices. We’re just paying 10x more for a RyanAir experience.
aug 23, 2025, 5:27 am • 17 0 • view
Yes! If they had RyanAir prices, I wouldn't care that much. I wish the US had LCC like RyanAir and Wizz.
aug 23, 2025, 5:36 am • 11 0 • view
spirit
aug 23, 2025, 5:44 am • 0 0 • view
Spirit is double or triple the typical RyanAir price level. Ryanair is like greyhound adjacent prices. Spirit is priced how all flights used to be before Covid.
aug 23, 2025, 5:46 am • 2 0 • view
The bus to the airport regularly costs me more than the plane ticket does.
aug 23, 2025, 4:53 pm • 2 0 • view
They're ULCCs (ultra). There was a floor and they went below it.
aug 23, 2025, 12:33 pm • 3 0 • view
fuckin' Ryan has a lot to answer for
aug 23, 2025, 5:24 am • 12 0 • view
www.youtube.com/watch?v=75ci...
aug 23, 2025, 5:03 pm • 0 0 • view
The two worst airlines I have ever flown on are Ryan Air and TAPS. Second wasn't as cheap, but just as bad. Oh, and coach to Korea on Korean Air. If you can't pay for first class on Korean Air, they want to forget you are there.
aug 23, 2025, 1:48 pm • 0 0 • view
They charge you a fee for picking an aisle seat on an international flight, even if you're far enough back in the plane that you'd need to mail a letter to first class
aug 23, 2025, 5:26 am • 26 0 • view
Right now they can get worse and worse because the airlines have class consciousness colluded to make sure nobody goes too far from what they, as a group, have decided we get. And never forget that if one of them increases profits by making our lives worse, they all will want to do it.
aug 24, 2025, 12:35 am • 0 0 • view
Oh you wanted to breathe AIR on the plane? That’s extra.
aug 23, 2025, 6:20 am • 5 0 • view
Enshitification as a business model
aug 23, 2025, 5:32 am • 15 0 • view
This has long roots and it can be traced back to 1970s and Southwest Airlines. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
aug 23, 2025, 5:34 am • 18 1 • view
If you like a business or service, it is yet to be optimized for profit, and it WILL become worse.
aug 24, 2025, 3:39 am • 0 0 • view
Had a trip lately with 4 legs and when one leg actually had decent legroom AND the TVs in the seats I could have cried for happy.
aug 24, 2025, 3:46 am • 0 0 • view
wanna go halfsies on a cessna?
aug 23, 2025, 5:28 am • 29 0 • view
I've thought about getting a license and an experimental aircraft since FAA registered planes are so expensive. Bezos paid to have the little single airstrip for crop dusters in my tiny West Texas home town upgraded so he could land his jet and go to his spaceflight ranch so I could fly home
aug 23, 2025, 5:40 am • 2 0 • view
rather than make the 10+ hour drive (Texas is fuckin huge)
aug 23, 2025, 5:41 am • 2 0 • view
after both flying and driving from LA to SF trust me i get it. it's wild how nobody talks about the 8+ hours of california road that's just like, 3 farmers and that's it
aug 23, 2025, 5:43 am • 9 0 • view
There’s like one McDonalds in the whole span and I think it’s literally the only place anyone in that stretch is able to eat.
aug 23, 2025, 5:51 am • 3 0 • view
There’s plenty of places to eat in Buttonwillow.
aug 23, 2025, 5:56 am • 2 0 • view
And two of the farmers have posted signs blaming Nancy Pelosi for the drought
aug 23, 2025, 5:51 am • 3 0 • view
oh sweet is the new 9/11 thread i'm so in
aug 23, 2025, 5:29 am • 13 0 • view
uh i mean,
aug 23, 2025, 5:30 am • 7 0 • view
a cessna isn't enough for that i checked
aug 23, 2025, 5:37 am • 10 0 • view
Maybe if the Cessna was a hydrogen bomb with an engine glued to it otherwise pretty sure it’s just break a window and startle a janitor or smth
aug 23, 2025, 5:45 am • 2 0 • view
we could db cooper some shit
aug 23, 2025, 5:39 am • 8 0 • view
i don't think that works if you use your own plane. they just scramble the jets
aug 23, 2025, 5:40 am • 6 0 • view
DB cooper worked cuz there were other people on the plane the government didn't want to shoot down
aug 23, 2025, 5:41 am • 11 0 • view
listen i'll be real with you i just wanted to get blown out of the sky by a sidewinder
aug 23, 2025, 5:50 am • 7 0 • view
i bet that feels amazing for the plane
aug 23, 2025, 5:52 am • 3 0 • view
the lock-on alarm is the plane calling red
aug 23, 2025, 6:00 am • 4 0 • view
i don't think those have any weapons on them to do that with
aug 23, 2025, 6:02 am • 1 0 • view
oh wait the other kind of sidewinder
aug 23, 2025, 6:03 am • 3 0 • view
they never made a second of the all-girl ocean’s movies, so feels like time is ripe for someone to shoot Trannies’ Nine where the heist is a plane.
aug 23, 2025, 5:34 am • 7 0 • view
kind of appealing at this point, ngl
aug 23, 2025, 5:38 am • 15 0 • view
It infuriates me that I buy a ticket and then the airline has the audacity to try and CHARGE ME for choosing a seat. Nope.
aug 24, 2025, 3:13 am • 0 0 • view
Ryanair make it harder to be proud of being Irish...
aug 23, 2025, 10:11 pm • 0 0 • view