Here we are Gate 47 at London-Stansted Airport waiting for my Ryanair flight to Hamburg - Lubeck Airport.

Ryanair are an Irish owned company operating flights all over Europe mainly for the leisure traveller. They offer 'cheap' fares that are accomplished by only a minimal level of service and also the use of very small airports who welcome airline business with open arms therefore attracting a low price to the company.

Often these airports are several miles away from the city they purport to represent and the airline has got into trouble with this in the past. Today I flew to 'Hamburg - Lubeck', but Lubeck is an hour's drive away from Hamburg, whereas the main Hamburg airport is 'downtown' and is extremely close to the heart of the city.

I met some Icelandic people in the queue for our flight, whom were very surprised that they would be unable to catch a subway train from their destination airport. Arriving in the evening with no hotel accommodation booked (this small airport has no such accommodation), they would have had to catch the special airport bus to find somewhere. The airport's communications are in fact very poor.

When flying Ryanair, the lesson is to check where you are actually flying to. And of course, the 'headline' fares quoted in those adverts can easily double once you have added in all the extra charges and taxes. Why can't we have a more honest marketing policy in the airline industry?



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On 1 September last year; 'Candle'