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    Free air travel if you STAND

    Ryanair announce free air travel if you STAND UP. !!!!!

    Is that crazy....??


    http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090706/...p-327c223.html
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    What happens when they land? Normally everyone has to be in their seats and have their seatbelts fastened. Other than that, I wouldn't mind it. Like they mention in the article, it's just like riding the train / subway. The "free" part is odd though. I wonder if you get to bring luggage.

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    Airlines usually advise passengers to remain seated with their seat belts
    loosely fastened..

    What comes next.. outside toilets ??

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    When I used ryanair to fly from London to Belfast is literally cost us $.02 round trip. It's once you get there the price starts to go up. 8 pounds for each bag handled each way. So in the end it cost me 16.02 pounds round trip- still not bad but the flight was only like 1.5 hrs.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WannaBe_80z View Post
    So in the end it cost me 16.02 pounds round trip- still not bad but the flight was only like 1.5 hrs.
    Hold on. Not bad? Seriously? 16.02 pounds...so, at 1.6 USD to the British pound, we are talking $25 for a 1.5 hour flight? And that's 'not bad?' I want to live where you live, but I just don't have enough drugs.
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    Quote Originally Posted by hanratty21 View Post
    Hold on. Not bad? Seriously? 16.02 pounds...so, at 1.6 USD to the British pound, we are talking $25 for a 1.5 hour flight? And that's 'not bad?' I want to live where you live, but I just don't have enough drugs.
    He means when he was in Britannia.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
    He means when he was in Britannia.
    I don't care if he was in Timbuktu. $25 for a round trip flight anywhere is dirt cheap.
    Quote Originally Posted by mave_the_rave View Post
    What comes next.. outside toilets ??
    Didn't Ryanair recently want to charge to use the toilets?
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    hanratty21 Ryan Air are very evil. £10 to take a bag in the hold - and that's just one way, £10 if you pay by credit or debit card (how else do you pay?). So a £0.01 flight becomes £30.01 without too much effort. But then that's better than £100 - you've just got to find the right time, day and flight - you can easily be overcharged and pay more than going on British Airways.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Genesis F5 View Post
    What happens when they land? Normally everyone has to be in their seats and have their seatbelts fastened. Other than that, I wouldn't mind it. Like they mention in the article, it's just like riding the train / subway. The "free" part is odd though. I wonder if you get to bring luggage.
    I wonder how many people survive plane crashes because they were wearing a seatbelt. They are just there to make passengers feel that they're safe (just like all security checks post-9-11 like taking your shoes off, confiscating lighters and liquids).
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    Quote Originally Posted by argonauta View Post
    I wonder how many people survive plane crashes because they were wearing a seatbelt. They are just there to make passengers feel that they're safe (just like all security checks post-9-11 like taking your shoes off, confiscating lighters and liquids).
    The seat-belts are actually quite important. Try sitting with a loose seatbelt next time your landing, and see if you can push your back into the seat. The G-force you are experiencing while landing is actually quite large, and the seat-belt is necessary to keep you in your seat.

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    Ryanair has those special offers where you pay €5 for a single ticket, but the catch is that the return ticket costs some €35. Usually when those offers are around, I book a flight from Dusseldorf to where ever I'm going, and the flight back I book a ticket to Eindhoven airport. Two single tickets really. I once paid just €30 all-in to go from Dusseldorf to London, London to Dublin, Dublin to Madrid, Madrid to Barcelona, Barcelona to Florence and from Florence back to Eindhoven. Now that was a dirt cheap holiday.
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    I'll stay in my head for free fly

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    That's it... are a ****ing spambot? Are you like the next coming of Borat, Bruno and Ali G combined?

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    You are too kindly, why thank you ?

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    I double dog dare you to make less sense.

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    okay, are you ever fly with Tarom ?

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