£10 off a Ryanair ticket with Amex – and it launches ‘Business Plus’

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• Mr Bridge says:

  1 Sep1 September 08:37

  make it a £10k statement credit , then maybe i will fly rynair

  • Rob says:

    1 Sep1 September 09:51

    We did, for a few years, fly them to Lubeck in Germany – then they dropped the route. The issue was the airport, an ex army base with no facilities. My worse Ryanair experience was Venice Treviso where the flight was 3 hours late and the airport had effectively closed down (not that it had much in the way of facilities when open).

    If flying to mainstream airports, I could live with it – although given their luggage costs and the sheer volume of stuff you take with 2 kids, BA would probably be cheaper.

    • susan says:

      1 Sep1 September 14:06

      Ryanair are the only direct Edinburgh-Rome operator (my regular route) nevertheless I’ve often found the KLM connection through AMS as cheap or cheaper and with 45 minute transfer times at Schipol and lots of flights to choose from it doesn’t take that much more time overall -sadly BA is rarely competitive and T5 seems so much less well organised. So even with £10 off FR will not be getting my business (not that I expect that fact will bother them one little bit 😉 )

    • Tim says:

      1 Sep1 September 15:11

      “the sheer volume of stuff you take with 2 kids”

      But kids stuff is smaller.
      We (me, Mrs, and 5 and 7 yo) have just returned from a two week holiday in Denmark. We manged with less than half our total BA hand luggage allowamce. (2 to the limit bags and one personal item between 4)

      • Rob says:

        1 Sep1 September 16:12

        Mine are 6 and 3 though! My wife still insists on taking a travel potty ‘just in case’, excessive changes of clothes ‘just in case’, ‘sleepy pants’ for the little one plus numerous permutations of coats and jackets for every conceivable scenario. Which, since I assume the weather in Denmark was similar to Sylt, is a lot of scenarios!

• Chris1922 says:

  1 Sep1 September 08:45

  I’m worried about the coprorate travel element, Ryan Air will soon be flying from Glasgow (GLA) to Stansted. It’s hard enough to avoid easyJet for my London trips, I need to talk nicely to our travel booker as it is, to ensure BA. It’s going to be even harder now…….

• czechoslovakia says:

  1 Sep1 September 09:32

  As much as I hate Ryanair and that buffoon they employ they do hold the honour of the only airline I ever flew with which actually managed to get me to my destination BEFORE we should have even taken off.

• CC says:

  1 Sep1 September 09:42

  I fly Ryan Air 4-5 times a year (partner in Lithuania so not much choice) so would have been handy, but offer was not there.

  I actually booked a flight last night with my BA PP, now that I’ve have registered with Andrews link I wonder if I will get credit as the Ryan air payment is still under pending transactions?

• Andrew S says:

  1 Sep1 September 09:43

  I’m always surprised at the negative attitude to Ryanair. If you do business outside of the major cities, I have found them to be very convenient.

  O In over 100 flights in 5 years i have never been more than 30 minutes late (2 occasions)
  O Small airports – hardly any delays at security/immigration
  O The most convenient point to point airline to get to the destinations i need.
  O Exit row seat more than 90% of the time during “free boarding”
  O Priority boarding is cheap to basically guarantee exit seats
  O My bag fits the dimensions. Never a problem with getting it on board.
  O Combined with a priority pass for lounge access – rather comfortable.
  O Crews OK – quite friendly to further north the base!

  • Mark2 says:

    1 Sep1 September 10:29

    I agree, but have never had a nightmare being only a holiday flyer.
    I recently looked into flying to Pescara. Alitalia offered £186 with an overnight break in Milan. Ryanair flew direct in the morning; I cannot remember the exact fare bot it was £50-60.

  • Alan says:

    1 Sep1 September 10:33

    Although on the flipside – if trying to get to many of the major destinations you have a very long trip in from the airport; if adding a hold bag the costs very quickly escalate and in my case when I was at Uni the cancelled the flight and offered zero assistance meaning we lost our whole holiday (it was just going to be a long weekend so going two days later on their next service wasn’t exactly worth it!)

    • Andrew S says:

      1 Sep1 September 14:15

      I think it’s a balance… I’m sure BA would provide a hotel etc should the worst happen, but Ryanair have a better on time, and cancellation record than BA. If there is one blip at LHR then the whole short haul fleet is cancelled.

      Frequent traveller will already have good insurance and in the unlikely event of a big problem, are more than capable of finding accommodation and food and organising an insurance claim.

  • Polly says:

    1 Sep1 September 11:33

    Agree with all points, as it say, I use them like a bus back and forth to Dublin, works when we obey their rules exactly. And always on time or before, that amazes me ! Plus they fly to Bergerac , great for SW France. Our next flight £25 pp each way, just brilliant. We mix it up between BA and FR as and when we need to.

• Janeyferr says:

  1 Sep1 September 11:34

  Worked for me with my VS white card too.

  • Louise says:

    1 Sep1 September 20:20

    Are people receiving confirmation email for successful registration? I registered three cards but no emails

    • Andrew (@andrewseftel) says:

      2 Sep2 September 07:07

      Same here

    • Roger says:

      2 Sep2 September 09:01

      Just a non-specific web acknowledgement:
      Ryanair
      Thank You!
      Thank you for registering your Card for our offer at Ryanair
      with a link to the FR website.

• Jimmy says:

  1 Sep1 September 19:04

  Ahem.

  http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/business/ryanair-business-class-just-ticket-for-different-airline-2014082789924

  🙂

• Andrew (@andrewseftel) says:

  1 Sep1 September 19:56

  Given the way that Amex awards these on a transaction basis, you might be able to earn these credits by paying for extras if Ryanair code changes up the same as flights.

  E.g. 1) Book a flight, get £10 credit 2) go into manage booking and select a premium seat, pay with a different registered Amex card, get a £10 credit.

  I think premium seats are £10 to pre-book, so this is effectively offering free premium seats if you have enough Amex cards.

  • Rob says:

    1 Sep1 September 21:47

    Very good thinking ….!

  • Wade says:

    2 Sep2 September 11:35

    Are there any <£10 extra you could purchase? Maybe a "carbon offset"? There are £18 flights on their website, so £8 net…make a £1 donation with another card and you get paid £1 to fly Ryanair!

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