FML RYANAIR

We left the hostel the next morning with a couple extra JMU people that were headed off in different destinations for vacation. Some were catching flights to the Canary Islands and others were going to Morocco. Our flight to Italy was at 9:45 am, so I wanted to get to the airport with plenty of time because Ryanair is not know for their prompt service or understanding. After metroing it to the airport, we arrived in plenty of time to wait in the massive Ryanair line and go through security.

Ryanair has this awesome policy where if you are not checking a bag you are only allowed one carry bag and it can only weigh 10 kilos. Well we managed to get around this rule by dumping stuff out of bags behind the counter and then putting them on the scale.

If you can’t tell by now, I really hate Ryanair. When I bought my tickets for Italy it accidentally bought two tickets under the same name. Any logical company would question why I had bought two tickets under the same name, but not Ryanair. Of course Ryanair does not refund tickets unless a family member dies, so there was no possible way for me to get my money back. Angela offered to buy the ticket from me, but of course there is a name change fee of 100 euros, which was almost as much as the ticket cost. Trying to change the name and pay with a different credit card was also quite a fiasco. Finally I figured out how to maneuver the purposefully confusing Ryanair website and change the name on the ticket, but it was far from easier. I really think Ryanair just tries to the confuse their customers to the point where they can just get their credit card information and book them on random flights. I would not be surprised if Ryanair charged me for a flight to Dubai.

Once we were settled on the plane, which was also challenging because you don’t have seat assignments on Ryanair. It is just a free for all. Everyone pushes to get a seat and an overhead bin for their carry on. We all managed to find seats and bins, just as the plane was beginning to taxi to the take off strip. The flight attendants on Ryanair are equally horrible. The don’t really enforce any plane safety rules. They let all the passengers roam up and down the isles. I am pretty sure I could do cartwheels down the Isles and nobody would say anything to me. I managed to get into a little fight with one of the attendants because she would not let me us the bathroom. She kept telling me we were landing soon, but I am pretty sure she had no idea were we were even flying to because she had been sitting on her ass the entire flight gossiping with the other attendant. I told the lady I was going to use the bathroom and she could not stop me.