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(AFP) Irish no-frills airline Ryanair on Monday confirmed its board has approved plans to start flying low-cost transatlantic routes in the next five years.

Proposed transatlantic fares would start from as little as £10 ($14, 13.99 euros) one-way...

Ya know, I read this and immediately thought about Geoff (I know, that's just wrong and scary). But in all seriousness, I'm not so sure this is a great idea. Lowering airfare prices to that extreme would ultimately allow any idiot, scumbag, and low-life to rome freely around the world. For lack of a better example, you'll start to see Geoff and his family all over the place and in your neighborhood. Tourism would skyrocket and the result would be trashy and devastating...

You'll have to pay 700 quid to bring your organs

xer0s wrote:Tourism would skyrocket and the result would be trashy and devastating...

only if americans come over here

maybe geoff can finally afford a flight outta the states

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SoM wrote:maybe geoff can finally afford a flight outta the states

You won't be going anywhere with your criminal record

Captain Mazda wrote:

SoM wrote:maybe geoff can finally afford a flight outta the states

You won't be going anywhere with your criminal record

already been to my homeland and back

don't turn this into a stupid geoff thred

Is that what you call prison now?

Captain Mazda wrote:
You won't be going anywhere with your criminal record

I've been all over the world. Criminal record means nothing when you travel.

This Ryanair deal will only affect tourist areas. Tourist areas, by definition, don't function for the residents of the country, so all this cheap air fare will do it pack more people into an area you yourself likely never visit.

Also, you need a passport to travel. The relative irritation of applying for one is a litmus test that will at find a good proportion of potential travellers staying home.

With all taxes and additional costs on top of that 10 quid it's still going to be an expensive undertaking.
I know a plane ticket from Amsterdam to London is like 10 euros for a premium airliner but you're spending like 10 times that amount in the end.

You should fly to Bristol - I paid £55 return including taxes

htf can they operate the plane at that cost? Crew and fuel?

better yet, how much profit have they been taking all those years?

Indeed. Also, the environmental costs must be mental...

FFS. Fuck Ryanair. You'd have thought with all the pro environmental stuff this was a thing of the past.

There should be a tax on the emissions per mile.

also yes, fuck ryanair. used their services one to Rome, it was atrocious.

Lots of gotten to in this thread.

phantasmagoria wrote:There should be a tax on the emissions per mile.

Yes

MKJ wrote:also yes, fuck ryanair. used their services one to Rome, it was atrocious.

was the low low ticket price not a clue before you booked the flight? you could have taken the train

oh wait, no you couldn't because that would have taken 4x longer, and you want convenience, right?

bring back the concord!

London to New York

3.5 hours!

and nice and quiet because you outrun the engine noise!

seremtan wrote:

MKJ wrote:also yes, fuck ryanair. used their services one to Rome, it was atrocious.

was the low low ticket price not a clue before you booked the flight? you could have taken the train

oh wait, no you couldn't because that would have taken 4x longer, and you want convenience, right?

it was, I just didnt expect it that bad.

let me put it another way; the added comfort of a regular flight is surprisingly not parallel to the added price, though not a level of comfort I'd like to give up.
so maybe i should say, fuck those other airlines.

phantasmagoria wrote:FFS. Fuck Ryanair. You'd have thought with all the pro environmental stuff this was a thing of the past.

There should be a tax on the emissions per mile.

Since air travel only contributes 1% to man-made climate change, I reckon we're alright if they squeeze a few more flights in.

more like 3.5%, but still small compared to the emissions from Geoff's bullshit

yea i guess flying in that purple layer is not that good