Ryanair--For Real This Time or Another Publicity Stunt?

Yes, but you still have to stand for hours...and you get to pay for it. With a seat, I can always take a nap.

Of course, I go out of my way to avoid Ryanair. By the time you pay for all the "extras" and pay to get to their outerlying airports, I find for a few bucks more I can fly someone else and it's less of a hassle.

But if you're counting pennies, and the "fare" is what's important to brag about, then have fun standing.

4 GBP (actually, their sale fares now are 12 GBP), 5 GBP on-line check-in, 5 GBP "administration fee," 15 GBP per bag (20 GBP for July and August), 4 GBP if you want some sort of seating choice, 15 GBP extra to get to, say, London Luton airport and from, say, Paris "Beauvais" (above and beyond the cost of normal transportation links), and all of a sudden, that 4 GBP airfare has turned into 48 GBP, about $100. You have to ask yourself....is it worth all the hassle and extra time?

If verticality determines the fare, maybe urinals would be cheaper than toilets? The mind races.

I'd rather pay extra for a seat....sometimes "cheapness" can backfire.

Unless, of course, you don't mind standing for eight hours and holding it in for that long.

Ryanair Tarmac Delay

Where did you get $200 from. Wait, don't answer that. I don't want to know where you pulled it from.

But let's look at a real flight. London to Frankfurt.

Ryanair from London Stansted to Frankfurt Hahn. Total cost (using your 4Euro price) from city center to city center is about $42.

On BA from Heathrow to Frankfurt Main the total price is about $96.

However, the entire trip on Ryanair will take at least 3 hours longer. (Not including any other costs Ryanair wants to charge you--bag fee (in case they don't want to allow your carry on, fee for using credit cards, fees for talking to employees, etc.)

So you might save a few bucks but you'll add about 3 hours to your journey. And get to stand the whole way.