Ryanair is known for its low base fares and high ancillary fees. Well, the carrier has just added its most expensive ancillary fee to date, though I can’t imagine that all that many passengers will actually be paying this.
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I'm not sure how this would get enforced. Hitting the credit/debit card used to purchase the fare? (Me thinks many of those cards would not have sufficient credit even if that's the means to do so). The better solution would be put on a permanent No Fly List and if they act up after being thrown off take to jail.
Why lol ? Apart from being added to their no fly list ,FR has every right to do this and debit the card, since it’s part of their conditions of carriage.
Soon Ryanair will have a €50 good behavior fee! Don't get kicked off the flight, pay €50!
UK contract law explicitly prohibits this type of 'penalty clauses', and I would be very surprised if consumer protection authorities in the EU allowed them to impose it anywhere.
Unenforceable. They could prevent the passenger from flying FR again unless they pay up, though. They did this with people who got their CC to refund them from covid cancellations.
Well, at least we know who they're targeting here with the fee listed in British pounds. Wonder if it's for Ryanair UK flights only and not the other Ryanair subsidiaries? Maybe they feel lucky with UK courts, because as Throwawayname said, the EU would knock this down in five seconds.
You can 'Go Wild" only on FR ( Front & Rear ) with their pass, I'd imagine it's been trademarked already !!
Correction: My apologies in confusing airline codes, as " F9 " is the correct code for Frontier ( AKA Front & Rear ) .. !
Of course actually collection would be problematic, especially with this type of pax demographic.
But maybe the practical advantage is to obtain a legally enforceable judgement against the offending pax. Even if it's not worth pursuing wage garnishment ( Is the pax even 'employed' ? ..!! ), maybe it could at least have some negative affect on pax's credit history for what it's worth..,All this in addition to a lifetime ban, of course !
This is not China, there are very strict laws covering that sort of thing in the UK and the EU, even a ban might be deemed unacceptable by the authorities if there hasn't been any criminal conduct involved.
And the " beat goes on '" and this disruptive crap continues for the majority of well-behaved pax forced to tolerate it if they wish to travel at all ..,,,
Or how about a mandatory " behavior deposit " assessed on each ticket. Upon 'successful' completion ( good behavior ) of the flight, it will 'cheerfully' be refunded !
Kinda like the way we have to 'bribe' or enforce civilized behavior in children !
one thing for sure with this world crass beer guzzling crowd of pax someone soon will be billed or blocked from Rude Air Airlines
Ryanair are a horrid airline that intentionally split up ppl on the same booking to different seats scattered around the plane. This will be an attention grab, nothing more.
So you sit there for 3 hours and cost them a full plane load of eu261 compensation, lol
Yes, due process is the main difference between a democratic society and a totalitarian state optimised for 'efficiency'.
Well, that's certainly one way to deal with a future round of climate protests...
As long as you're not flying the US 'big 3' as it's now common knowledge that they purposely charge solo travelers more than 2+ pax. I'd be curious if European based airlines can pull this consumer crap. I doubt it.
Make it $5000 and lock them up for a month and curtail flying privileges and you may have something. This has to be stopped or it will get worse
Agreed this would be tough to collect from non-regular Ryanair passengers but I think this may be more about targeting the regular leisure passengers from the UK/Ireland. We all know the type, the morning power drinkers headed for sunny destinations/stag do's. It could be as simple as pay the fine or be banned from flying the airline again. I think that would make some pay up for fear of losing 40 pound flights to Ibiza.