API

[Mike]

Just did ours for a Ryanair trip at the end of the month....have to enter the info when you check-in online (which you have to do now, no airport check-in at all).
So traumatic...double/triple/quadruple checking the info because you just know that if you make a mistake it's going to cost a fortune to put right (boarding card re-issue is £40 each).

[IGoCommando]

That's just one more reason not to travel with Ryanair along with the knowledge that Michael O'Leary is a prize t**t and you have to pay a quid to take a dump.

[Mike]

That's just one more reason not to travel with Ryanair along with the knowledge that Michael O'Leary is a prize t**t and you have to pay a quid to take a dump.

He is (a prize t**t).....but they didn't bring in the "Pay-as-you-go," not yet anyway.

We've never travelled with them before and were very hesitant to do it....but £26 return to Reus (which they laughably call Barcelona) was too good to pass up. Only a week-end so we've not even had to pay the £15 per flight per bag checked baggage fees.

[Karl]

is this the same guy that did this ?

"In 2004 he purchased a taxi plate for his Mercedes-Benz currently a 2007 Mercedes S500, to enable it to be classified as a taxi so that he could legally make use of Dublin's bus lanes to speed his car journeys around the city. A press report suggested that he was stopped driving his own taxi, he employs a driver with full psv licence. In 2005 the Irish transport minister expressed concern at this abuse by O'Leary and others."

SOURCE : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_O'Leary_(Ryanair)

[PhilW]

I’ve used Ryanair a few times and as long as you understand all the terms and conditions they can offer you the cheapest deals around.  I booked them for a trip to Ibiza in September and even with all the add-ons (luggage, booking fee, card fee etc) they were still under half the price of any other carrier.  Easyjet can be just as awkward if you get the booking wrong and make a mistake.  I’m sure that Michael O'Leary only says a lot of the things that are reported for the publicity and it works.  They are one of the biggest carriers in the UK.


Phil

[Karl]

I agree Phil having read the above webpage, most of his off the cuff comments and/or outburst happen to coincide with major new changes to Ryan Air (new routes etc).. He’s not daft by any means.

[Gloom]

Just entered mine
all OK but entered the Thomas cook reference and it would not accept it, so put in the Manos reference and then it was alright,
Printed off the details using the option, to take with me to the airport as proof, just in case it  gets lost in the system when I get there!(trusting type me )

[bigOpete]

Never used ryan air since they conned me.they advertised a new route stanstead to stockholm it was half the price of sas the swedish carrier.all was well till we arrived at nychoping and told we had to get a bus to stockholm an hour away.it was a bit like saying stanstead was heathrow.

[glen]

cant fault ryanair.You get what you pay for.We wanted to get to Portugal ,didnt want entertainment or food,and we got there ,no delays or hassles....

[PhilW]

BigOpete makes a valid point.  Sometimes the airport is not where you think it’s going to be.  You must check the airport name before booking.  I know they don’t fly to Barcelona but to an airport about 50 Km away but they call it Barcelona until you check the small print.

I still think they are good value if you do your home work.

Phil

[Mike]

I know they don’t fly to Barcelona but to an airport about 50 Km away but they call it Barcelona until you check the small print.

They fly to two "Barcelona" destinations; Girona which is 103km north-east and Reus which is 109km south-west.

To be fair though it's not "small print," it's completely clear from the start of the booking process. You'd have to be fairly daft not to notice it.

When you select Barcelona it gives you the choice...



Don't know about other destinations but given the huge amount of publicity given to the subject you'd need to be fairly naïve not to check.

[Alykanas Kid [Billy's brother]]

booked last year so won't affect us.

[laura251]

i never even relised that we had to do this i was just reading the small print in my emails off thomson and it told me to give API's before we go....apprently if you dont give theses details you cant travel??

[trotter]

Just thought people for ongoing holidays flying with thomsons ,you cant register your passports on line you have to do it on check-in just spoke to Thomas cook api helpline and they informed me of this 

[The Greek Treckers]

Just thought people for ongoing holidays flying with thomsons ,you cant register your passports on line you have to do it on check-in just spoke to Thomas cook api helpline and they informed me of this 

We fly with Thomsons and I have registered ours on line, did it 3 weeks ago.