Ryanair £5 summer flights (July and August)

Ryanair is the Marmite of the skies. You love it or you hate it.

You respect the low prices, the fact it has shaken up the market for the good, its record on punctuality and the go-getting attitude of the chief executive Michael O'Leary - or you hate the fact you don't get an allocated seat, the extra charges such as pay-to-check-in and pay-to-pay unless you have an elusive Electron card and the customer's-always-wrong attitude of the chief executive.

Whatever side of the perimeter fence you sit, you can't deny that flying halfway across Europe for a fiver plus taxes and other cr*p is a fine way to see our bit of the world, especially if the deal is available in the school summer holidays, which this time it is.

Check out the latest £5 flights here:

http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/?klc=y

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Comments

[Lee Perry]

It's the fact their staff seem entirely dedicated to selling scratch cards that annoys me. It’s easier to get by being herded about like cattle if you can just switch off and go to sleep. But with Ryanair you get disturbed every 2 minutes with them trying to punt stuff to you while they have you trapped. Even on the shortest flights they have to do the entire 3 rounds - overpriced instant coffee, cuddly toy then raffle tickets.

And their staff are...

...I am sorry, I really shouldn’t have started this.

[Toots Hibbert]

I find their policy of adding extra charges too confusing to calculate up front, so I tend to avoid flying with them at all.

[Matthew Wilder]

The discount airlines made a bold step switching to this type of business model to take on the big boys. History has shown us that starting an airline can break even the most experienced and rich businessman.

This has resulted in far better competition where the savings are passed on directly to the passenger, with these fees being the only minor drawback.