[macuenca]

To put people who may not know Ryanair in context: is a low-cost Irish airline that operates in Europe. You can get round trip flights starting at EUR 0.01. His CEO is a very controversial person who has been on the press for suggesting aggressive measures to make air travel even cheaper, like run flights where passengers stand during the journey, removing toilets from aircrafts and the most recent one, providing paid porn movies on board. Once, I travel Madrid-Paris with them for less than 20 euros. Most of their fleet are Boeing 737-800.

Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryanair

[gergles]

Well, .01 EUR plus 'fees' (more fees than I've ever seen in my life - http://www.ryanair.com/en/terms-and-conditions#regulations-t...) including a minimum 6 EUR "Admin Fee" for the privilege of buying a ticket and a 40 EUR fee if you lose or don't print a boarding pass...

[tptacek]

I didn't downvote you but I find it a little amusing that people in Europe can get worked up over an $8 ticketing fee on a $0.02 ticket. In the US, it can cost as much as $500 one-way to fly from Pittsburgh, PA to Philadelphia, PA. $79 one-way Chicago-Atlanta is considered so spectacularly cheap that the offer consumes most of the above-the-fold real estate on Southwest Airlines' website.

[MoreMoschops]

You get ripped off, so you laugh at other people who don't like getting ripped off. Nice.

[tptacek]

Tee hee!

[DrSbaitso]

The fees are atrocious, but during promotions they sometimes sell tickets with taxes and fees included. I once bought a roundtrip Oslo-Edinburgh and the total charge was £1.98. The airport bus ended up being 20 times more expensive than the actual flight.

[gergles]

Can whoever downvoted me please explain yourself? You have to pay a 6 EUR "admin fee" to get the .01 EUR fare unless you use their proprietary approved prepaid product (which, amazingly, has its own fees! - The card alone costs 6 EUR plus an extra upcharge every time you put money on it@)

[rmc]

I have flown in Ryanair flights that cost £0.01.

They often advertise flights for €0.01 but then charge ~€10 for various other things, so the actual price is usually about €15. However, it is possible to get a 1 cent flight, although it is rare.

[kinofcain]

They "suggest" all sorts of ridiculous crap.

On the internet, we call it 'trolling'.

In the case of RyanAir, they've turned trolling into a marketing strategy.

[tathagatadg]

Thanks for the background. Wondering if people consider it workplace-safe ... "Oh! I was just searching for cheap tickets ... believe me, not cheap hookers! "

[skeptical]

> providing paid porn movies on board

That's hilarious (epic?)