http://www.flightblogging.com/2009/03/02/playing-ryanair-at-their-own-game/ Flights, airports and onward travel Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:50:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.flightblogging.com/2009/03/02/playing-ryanair-at-their-own-game/comment-page-1/#comment-102175 Flightblogging.com » Blog Archive » 20 Reasons To Fly With Ryanair Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:56:49 +0000 http://www.flightblogging.com/2009/03/02/playing-ryanair-at-their-own-game/#comment-102175 [...] Special offers have traditionally been used by retailers to get people through their doors, and Ryanair’s 1p flights are no different to this. One thing to bear in mind is that they don’t always set aside a certain number of seats on each flight to sell at the lowest possible price. Why on earth should they give away seats for nothing if there is a big event on in the destination city? The small print on their current special offers list makes it clear that you will not find cheap flights on a Friday or Sunday, and it also gives the blackout dates to save you the bother of searching during the busy periods. Look out for dates which seem to be set aside for the 1p flights, and be prepared for the same date to be offered for the outbound and return flight. How do you get round this? Simply fly out to one destination, and fly home from a different airport. See our article on playing Ryanair at their own game for further explanation about this. [...] [...] Special offers have traditionally been used by retailers to get people through their doors, and Ryanair’s 1p flights are no different to this. One thing to bear in mind is that they don’t always set aside a certain number of seats on each flight to sell at the lowest possible price. Why on earth should they give away seats for nothing if there is a big event on in the destination city? The small print on their current special offers list makes it clear that you will not find cheap flights on a Friday or Sunday, and it also gives the blackout dates to save you the bother of searching during the busy periods. Look out for dates which seem to be set aside for the 1p flights, and be prepared for the same date to be offered for the outbound and return flight. How do you get round this? Simply fly out to one destination, and fly home from a different airport. See our article on playing Ryanair at their own game for further explanation about this. [...]

]]> http://www.flightblogging.com/2009/03/02/playing-ryanair-at-their-own-game/comment-page-1/#comment-96155 Flightblogging.com » Blog Archive » As we twitter away, Ryanair up the marketing drive Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:15:36 +0000 http://www.flightblogging.com/2009/03/02/playing-ryanair-at-their-own-game/#comment-96155 [...] They say that 1 million seats are available each time, but if they sold 1 million each day, that would be 365 million per year - about 6 times the actual number of passengers they carry at all price points. Yet I have done a fair bit of checking, and as I said on Monday, there are seats available at these prices - even if you will sometimes have to be extremely flexible in your itinerary to take advantage. I made a booking myself on Sunday night, and opted to take flights out to Bologna, and back from Pisa - but that’s the way I normally book flights anyway, so I’m still happy. [...] [...] They say that 1 million seats are available each time, but if they sold 1 million each day, that would be 365 million per year – about 6 times the actual number of passengers they carry at all price points. Yet I have done a fair bit of checking, and as I said on Monday, there are seats available at these prices – even if you will sometimes have to be extremely flexible in your itinerary to take advantage. I made a booking myself on Sunday night, and opted to take flights out to Bologna, and back from Pisa – but that’s the way I normally book flights anyway, so I’m still happy. [...]

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