Ryanair

Rome (Ciampino) to London-Stansted 4 October 2013. My 2 hr 20 minute flight was 1.5 hrs late. Though we sat at the gate for 90 minutes the flight attendants charged £3 for water. Unbelievable and unforgiveable. Add in the fact they're so strict about carryon-bags and you'll never even consider flying them.

Leeds Bradford - Malaga. First time flying with Ryanair and had no problems whatsoever. Made sure boarding cards were printed for both directions before leaving home. Luggage weighed to make sure not over weight before leaving home. Purchased reserved seats with extra legroom and had a comfortable flight. All staff were friendly and helpful.

I flew from Stansted to Vasteras on 3rd October with a group (8 people 4 underage/children). Initially our bags were too large to fit through the allowance restrictions they had set so after shuffling the baggage a little they fit perfectly. The staff however showed no respect and little empathy with the situation of a mother carrying baby essentials in her purse. Of course we did not expect this to be the case but some nice treatment would have been much preferred to the screaming we endured about how the airline punctuality would be abused if we did not pay a fine. Before reshuffling the items in our bags the staff insisted that we pay the fine and requested that some of us be through to the plane. The children passed through (passport checked) and waited for the others only to have the staff lock the door on them separating them from parents simply to threaten our group that punctuality is crucial (even though we were boarding ahead of schedule). Unfortunately a handbag was taken (not disposed of but taken) and we made it to our seats. It seems that the staff of the airline are also not fond of people placing baggage in overhead compartments while safety demonstration is on as they requested to be seated and silent until takeoff. The irony in the situation! After that flight it's safe to say that Ryanair has lost 8 potential customers and maybe even more considering the other customers who had to endure the rude woman at the boarding gate.

We had no problems flying with Ryanair. Professional about everything. Staff at airport and on the plane were very good. Helpful and so young. The flight was on time both outbound and return. The plane was clean and seats were comfy. Nothing but praise. Will be using Ryanair again. Fuerteventura-Stansted flight FR8183 on 4th October.

Flown numerous times with Ryanair. Liverpool to Reus. Always the cheapest. With Ryanair all you have to do is follow some very basic rules and you wont have any trouble at all. Make sure you have booked in any hold luggage on line its much cheaper but you can take 10kg each as hand luggage6 of us so spreading it round saves you a lot of money. Also it amazes me when people cry when they have to pay the £60 if they haven't printed their boarding cards before hand. Why not? I do not have a printer so just pop down to a local library to print them out. Yes Ryanair is a bit like catching a bus and you just sit where there is space but so what flight times are not long haul and I'm sure you can put up with it for a few hours. There is a lot of selling during the flight but again so what. Don't buy anything if you don't want to. Food is a rip off agreed so I have never purchased anything. So let me give you an example of how much cheaper it is to fly with Ryanair. It cost us a family of 6 just under £ £600 in Sept for return flights to Reus.

24/9 and 1/10 Manchester - Faro. Perhaps I am too fussy as I normally fly scheduled for business and this was the first time I used Ryanair. I weighed my case at 14kg but Ryanair insisted it was 17kg. I was told to take things out and put them in my golf bag. If you forget the boarding pass that is printed by yourself there is a penalty of££70! The crew on both legs were surly. All they did on a 2.5 hour flight was to try and sell things. Boarding is a joke with everyone squeezing 10kg in lockers which do not have the capacity. As I said I normally fly schedule and they appear a similar price for far superior service. Although the flights were on time passenger service and treatment with a constant aim of collecting more money is a dreadful experience.

Rome Ciampino to London Stansted FR3005. Excellent service. For last 8 years I have taken over 60 flights with Ryanair without complaint. During this time I have had the cost of two flights refunded without any quibble (family bereavement). Today I was informed of a rescheduled flight. Ryanair re-booked the 3 members of our party on the alternative flight of our choice with no fuss no extra cost and within a 5 minute phone call.

02/10/2013. About a month ago I purchased flight tickets online from London (Luton) to Dublin. I paid in advance for ordering extra seat and luggage up to 20 kg. We reached the airport at 12.30. Desk opens at 13:00. When I told the clerk that I had not had the option to print a ticket she answered carelessly and rudely: "These are our procedures if you do not have 140 pounds to pay do not fly"! Charged 140 pounds for printing two boarding cards! Then during the flight they flooded us with nonsense and aggressively tried to get us to buy from them. I know that this is first and last time I fly with this company. Cheap flight does not mean poor service.

23 September 2013 to Fuerteventura and back again with them on 27th September. After seeing all the bad reviews they get I was very nervous. Its a low cost airline and to be honest it is no different than flying with Thomas Cook or anyone else for that matter. Ok so you don't get inflight movies seats don't recline but I found the whole booking to boarding to flying all very comfortable and easy.

Charged £50 for extra case which I booked 4 days before I flew out and found out it was only for one way to bring the case back it would cost another £50. Surely if you take a case on holiday you want to bring it back so this charge is a total rip off. It has nothing to do with security just pure greed from the airline. Found the staff on baggage handling to be unhelpful and miserable. On returning to UK we went into the duty free and was told we could take one carrier bag with our goods on flight with our hand luggage but this was not to be we were told by boarding staff very rudely that are carrier bag had to be put in our hand luggage which didn't have any space. Luckily we found a space in someone else's bag otherwise we would have lost the goods we had bought. On getting on the plane there was nowhere to put our bags other people were also having problems we had to put baggage under the seat in front of us which left no leg room at all and had a very uncomfortable flight home.