We happened upon the following posted on PPRuNe.org. Sums up perfectly the average Ryanair experience from booking to arrival at destination.
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I’m so glad I don’t fly for Ryanair as just being a passenger with them is bad enough. The tension starts to build from the moment you log onto their website and just gets worse as your journey continues.
On line check in used to be an option but now you have no choice and still have to pay an extra £5 for it, then there is £5 for paying with a card, £1 extra if you want a confirmation by SMS, not that I do and cant imagine who would when you will have printed off a boarding pass with on line check in.
If one of their dreary looking staff hasn’t pissed you off by the time you get on board then the incessant announcements at max volume soon will.
Then the captain or FO makes some half hearted attempt to welcome you on board. One has to close their eyes during the flight to avoid being blinded by the interior colour scheme however sleep never comes as the screechy Spanish girl is still making her deafening announcements for scratch cards.
Top of descent arrives and one of the cockpit crew comes on again and reads off the TAF to the pax. I’m sure 99.9% of them are not interested in QNH and dew point or that the wind is 230 at 10 knots with broken clouds at 10000′. I’m sure the average pax on board may just be able to understand if they were told its hot and windy or cold and wet.
Maybe the cabin crew had run out of things to say on the PA so they handed it over to the cockpit to fill up some air time.
The last straw is if by some chance you land on time there is some cheesy announcement to say they are the number one on time airline or something like that. I guess they have to find something to brag about.