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Updated 9.51 pm
RYANAIR PASSENGERS ON board a Ryanair flight from Nice to Dublin said they received a text saying the flight would take off at 10.30pm – while they were on board the plane at 5.13pm.
One passenger said the flight was due to leave at 4.45pm this evening when they first got a text to say they were taking off at 5.15pm.
While they were on board, they then received another text:
The passengers were then told to disembark from the plane and wait at the airport. They resumed boarding at about 9.45pm this evening.
A second passenger told TheJournal.ie earlier that the FR1958 flight had to make two attempts at landing in Nice.
He said that the passengers on FR1959 back to Dublin were checked in and boarded, but then received texts saying their flight was delayed until 5.15pm.
Passengers are now in the terminal awaiting news about their flight. Ryanair has given them €5 vouchers.
The second passenger said that passengers were told repairs need to be carried out on the plane, so he was concerned about the facilities for those waiting to take off.
“An issue that may arise now is that if the repairs are unsuccessful then a full aircraft worth of people will be stranded in an airport that is about as hot now as a decent cup of tea,” he said.
A Ryanair representative on Twitter advised one passenger to speak with their Ryanair representative in Dublin airport.
Ryanair has been contacted for a comment.
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What a story. You wouldn’t get better in The Star.
True, but if your airlifting a 100 million people in a right first time capacity around European Airspace in a given 12 months in a Peace Time period of Modern History…then your on to something good..well done MOL et all..i would love to work for them.
What a scoop! :)
I wonder what they bought with the 5€ voucher!!! Hmmmm Dolla Dolla bills yo
‘Waist of a day’
Jesus Christ
Can’t believe I “waisted” time reading that passenger quote.
I think I’ve actually won a lot more backing O’Learys horses than I’ve lost due to his planes being delayed.Besides a 5 hour delay is hardly the end of the world along as your not getting a connecting flight and even then…… well you did book with Ryanair.
Suppose it would be better if they risked lives and chanced flying on a faulty plane rather than the inconvenience of being delayed
Ir perhaps find some happy medium?
No, that’s still quite extreme. Try again.
Indeed. Better that they fixed it, rather than allow people plummet to their deaths.
Shane that hasn’t bothered them in the past…allowing aircraft to fly with not enough full to reach their destination.
Or abandoning their plans to fly to the USA because they haven’t got the necessary safety accreditation to get permission from the FAA
Simply not true.
Absolutely ridiculous statement..perfect safety record
What sort of an assinine comment is that ? A plane does not have to be full to depart, and certainly not a Ryanair flight….
Dont worry about Ryanairs accreditation, in the U.S. When you have 520 American produced Boeing Aircraft, the Yanks will see you OK.
Worse if it broke down up in the sky. You would be stuck up there all day.
good point, well maid.
(waist)
A very plane story
I was delayed 6 hours on a luftansa flight where is my article
I was delayed 9 hours on a KLM flight but I don’t think that made the news either.. funny that.
exactly,
i was delayed 13 hours on an Aer Lingus flight in 2001 and i didnt even have facebook or twitter to moan on.
now that was a “waist” of half a day.
(didnt get a meal voucher either, still waiting)
I missed a flight from Schiphol airport as I didn’t leave the bar in time. I am available for an exclusive interview, Journal…
Wouldn’t blame you for been stuck in the bar. There is noting else in that airport.
*being
If the delays were recent, you can sue for compensation.
http://www.flightrights.ie/passenger-rights/long-flight-delays.20.html
Art Vandelay maybe if you fell into a pot hole on the runway you might have gotten an article.
Another click bait non story bashing the national airline.
Since when is Ryanair the national airline?
Since Michael said so
He walks on water too apparently.
Another related story about Ryanair…. a few days ago a 23 year old primary school teacher named Aaron Galloway landed at Prague Airport after disembarking a Ryanair plane he left a £500 Nikon camera behind. ground crew phoned the flight attendants, but they had said there was no sign of it on-board. After arriving home Aaron decided to look for a replacement on Ebay… guess what he found? the very same camera he had left behind on the flight! Ryanair sacked Fernando Miguel Andrade a 34 year old steward who had stole the camera and tired to sell it on Ebay. He also got fined in court and given 100 hours of community service. (http://www.irishexaminer.com/examviral/real-life/ryanair-steward-steals-passengers-camera-victim-catches-him-on-ebay-324362.html)
Since Ryanair starting transporting more Irish people than Aer Lingus!
Too lazy to swim.
Right up there with pilots crashing planes into mountains. It’s a shocking time to be alive
Get the boat can swim a bit can’t fly an inch
And your point is?
Judging by the red thumb count I’m not sure many got the sarcasm in your comment there Shane!
You’ve got to hand it to Michael and his airline, Riff-Raff Air, customers are pretty low down on his agenda
To be fair I’ve had far worse delays with aer lingus and they never made the news for it
Stop the Presses , A plane has been delayed !!
Im sure there is far worse Ryanair ones to at times!
I know it’s the thing to do to bash Ryanair but the 15 odd years I’ve been using them I’ve never had any problems.
Sh*t happens
shit “journalism” happens
Ryanair has more groupies than 1D
Then there was the guy who took the airline to court when his luggage went missing. He lost his case.
He was a Brit, not a German……
Ryanair need to start letting faulty planes take off and crash , that might shut the morons up who never created a job or made travel easier for millions of Europeans.
You would swear that no other airline ever messed up if you go by the journals record , here’s a thought go and investigate other airlines records and see how they measure up against Ryanair .
There is an article I read once that argued the high importance placed on air travel safety drives costs up, which ultimately makes the world more unequal because… I think it was saying people would be more inclined to go to further, poorer places, which could do with more tourism. Which probably true, since air travel is by far safest form of travel there is.
In any case, I think the airlines would probably still rather keep it safe, if for no other reason than aircraft are expensive and if an airplane breaks down mid-flight, unlike a bus or a train, it’s a guaranteed disaster and total write off of the aircraft.
5e voucher!!! Yup out of it.
Oh goodie…a Ryanair funny money voucher, where can I spend it ?
All those slagging of Ryan Air obviously don’t remember the era before they existed, I can clearly remember back in 1988 having to pay Aer Lingus up to £200 to £300 to fly from Heathrow to Shannon, then prices would go up at Xmas to sometimes nearly £400 for the flight. Then along comes Ryan Air and offers low cost fares to same destinations which have made flying accessible to all when previously it was very expensive. If it wasn’t for Ryan Air we would all still be being fleeced by the overpriced National Airlines.
Some people don’t know when they have it good
Vastly oversimplified view of history.
I remember before Aer Lingus it took a week to swim to London, many died trying
I got delayed in Edinburgh with Ryanair. Got the £5 voucher for food. It didn’t cover the cheapest meal available to buy. Beans on Toast £5.50.
Aww….
Could you just buy toast?
I’d an Air Canada flight that got in two days late! Perhaps I should have written in to the journal!
Ryan Air do a lot of good things .Cheap flights , very punctual , access to some great places.I have used them many times and will again.I must say they could and should do better with passengers who are delayed.
So the airplane had to make a 2nd landing attempt wow,These things happen on a daily basis throughout the world.
I have lost count the amount of times I’ve seen this happen at Dublin.
Also if their is a tech problem with the aircraft best to take it out of service to investigate,Rather than being up in the air if and when a problem occurs.
Talk about red top rag top headlines if this was another airline would the story have been published.
“Waste of a day”… Talk about first world problems. What a donkey.
Could be worse, could have been a full day wasted there…..
I presume somebody somewhere within the AAA and SF movement will blame the delay on Enda and the Irish Water board
*YAWN*
that would be just silly.
It’s all Denis O’Briens fault? but the government controled media will never report it.
Jerry i suppose you would blame aaa sf if it rained tomorrow cheap shot nothing to do with the topic
This is coming from the same FF, FG, Labour idiots who refused to sell to Ryan air at twice the price they are now willing to sell to British Airways. You couldn’t make this stuff up.
I’m waiting on a statement from the halawa siblings and pavee point
Beginning to think The Journal has it in for Ireland’s most successful enterprise, I fly with Ryanair every week, couldn’t be happier, things like this happen, big f**kin deal, read the front page of the newspapers the past few days and take stock…
Oh Aoife Barry. I’ve a barrel out the back needs scraping. You free tomorrow to sort it. I suspect you could be.
OMG! A plane has a fault resulting in a delay while it’s being repaired, shocking news! Must be a world first!…..
Shit happens when u party naked
I don’t get the point of this article…..Can blame a bug in the automated system.. Ryanair bashing… Pointless journalism..
Must be a slow news day. #ClickBait
I had an eighteen hour delay in Bari and fourteen hour in Hamburg with Ryanair, where was the journals crack investigative team when I needed them?
Lubeck not hamburg. Nearly hamburg!
Tell me about it, feckin tent too
Well there’s 1 minute of my life I’m not getting back.
I wonder if Justin is using the time to improve his spellings? Why did he want waist time? What a waste of time for his fellow passengers. Perhaps he right an the Ryanair plane is broke and there is need for a collection. Or perhaps it is broken and needs to be repaired.
I’m more impressed with Ryanair after reading this, text update very handy. Nothing news story really…
Get what you pay for. So not that much then.
?
you saying more expensive flights mean planes dont break down?
No. Legacy/national carriers tend to have leeway in their schedules which enables them to send out an aircraft to pick up people stranded by technical issues. Ryanair don’t as all of their usable planes are scheduled for use all the time. Hence the alleged lower fares (take a look at some of their summer fares to airports where they compete with EI.) No real difference between them.
Well Alan some of us remember the so called national airlines ripping us off that was until Ryan Air came along and forced the national parasite lines to lower their prices and I for one am grateful to them for that. Now these national airlines have to compete with the low cost airlines so happy days for us frequent flyers.
Ireland has no National Airline anymore and EI are leasing planes since last year just to fulfil their schedule and they are leasing more this summer, so even if it was EI that was delayed their pax would be stranded due to no available planes. Alan has no clue
Ryanair had nothing to do with it. National airlines were operating a cartel, which the EU dismantled and opened up the market. Competition will always drive down prices but to claim Ryanair as the great saviour of aviation is nonsense. They wouldn’t have existed were it not for Open Skies.
But sure I’ve no clue at all.
I hate that airline i will never fly with him no matter what i will pay more if need be
What a waste of words.
Did they think my contacting The Journal they would get home faster?
Great story about a plane being delayed
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