Comments on: How can £7 flights to America make a profit?

By: Voos Baratos

Voos Baratos — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:39:12 +0000

That is a crazy price! I have never seen them at that price from Portugal, more like 800 to 1000£! However they use a trick sometimes, you have a few seats at that price, so you can advertise with it, then the more seats you get filled the more expensive it gets (they know they can fill the plane up). So they always have the plane full and adjust the prices accordingly, having in mind how fast it fills up.

By: Ryanair cheap flights: Europe

Ryanair cheap flights: Europe — Sat, 31 May 2008 00:53:03 +0000

[...] Here is an interesting post about Ryanair’s cheap flights to America. How can Ryanair make a profit by charging only £7 for one-way flights to America? It’s ridiculously cheap. [...]

By: Ellee Seymour - MCIPR, PRESS CONSULTANT, JOURNALIST, POLITICAL AND PR BLOGGER. » Planning a Greek trip

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:46:06 +0000

[...] I doubt I will be as lucky as Maalie and find a 1p flight which he has paid each way for a trip to Finland (read the comments). [...]

By: Man in a Shed

Man in a Shed — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:06:09 +0000

I managed free flights up to Shetland and back for myself and my then girlfriend. I had to make her my next of kin to do it though – and wait around as she spent a good ten minutes taking all the things she’d stowed around her person for security (she didn’t want to be seen with a handbag with all the other oil workers. )

Still I’ve married her now – so she really is my next of kin. ( So were the flights cheap – or was it just me ?)

By: Ellee

Ellee — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 13:32:44 +0000

Jim, It makes flights to America seem expensive. Even I can afford that!!!

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 13:29:17 +0000

Ellee, I have just broken my own record. Booked a 9-day trip to Finland in September for just 1p each way! Crazy, isn’t it?

By: electro-kevin

electro-kevin — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:24:52 +0000

I agree with my old chum, Newmania on this one.

Our Brownian economy is based entirely on a forecast of economic growth – that is the creation of consumerism and demand rather than the satisfaction of genuine demands which already exist; it seems entirely at odds to have our government (and our celebrities) lecturing us to cut back while their every action seems to make us want more, be it expansion of airports or the staging of pop concerts.

Travel is one of the prime examples of artificially created demand – I would wager that for at least 50% of holiday destinations the aspirations of the carrier precipitated those of the resort owners, that the route availabity was the impetus for the development ergo the expansion of the market for Union Jack shorts, fake Ray Bans and bottles of AfterSun.

So please – is there a global warming crisis or not ? Will someone make their mind up ?

By: Quasar9

Quasar9 — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 08:45:29 +0000

PS Elle – I was appalled to hear today that the carbon footprint of a cruise liner is worse than that of a jumbo jet.

Not quite sure they were comparing like for like though …
After all you are only in the air for a max of 12-16 hours, whereas a cruise can last 2 weeks or 2 months.

By: Quasar9

Quasar9 — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 08:41:27 +0000

Yeah He’s the Man,
though I should be appalled by the alarming increases in short haul flights …
I have a ‘soft spot’ for Ryan Air. The thought of getting to Sweden in less than 2 hours, and Southern Portugal or Spain, and just about anywhere in Europe in little more than two hours, is a weakness of mine.

But yeah, Ryan Air flights to the US for £7.00
Is that standing room only?

Knowing Ryan Air
He’ll probably charge £50.00 to use the inflight loo, and fine you £100.00 if you don’t

By: electro-kevin

electro-kevin — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 22:45:37 +0000

Ellee,
I was alluding to a recent news item in which the body was placed upright in a first class seat.