How can ryan air make profits from tickets that cost nearly nothing.?

Question

I know that ryan air has extra charges for credit card etc. but still, how can they take you so many hunderd miles in the air for nearly nothing? surely, there must be a basic fuel /aircrew/maintenance costs of filling up a seat ?

Answer 1

1. To fly a plane from (say) London to Dublin costs £X - salaries, airport taxes, fuel, whatever.
The number of people on the plane make a VERY marginal increase in the cost of the flight, so a few extra bums-on-seats is still revenue (not ALL the seats are cheaper than a Big Mac).

2. Cheap Travel can make money - Have you ever heard of OAP's, Children/Students, disabled people getting cheap, even free bus passes? There are sound economic and commercial reasons for this. But there isn't space here to explain it.

3. Sometimes, you need a plane that's in London to be in Dublin by tomorrow because you know you've got lots of full-fare passengers that have booked a ticket. Do you fly the plane there empty, or sell as many cheap tickets as you can, even if you end up making next to nothing?

Answer 2

As the seats fill up on a flight they cost more and more - if you watch a flight online and refresh it you will see how suddenly the seats jump from say 99p to £9.99 etc - at certain times of year they can go up to over £200 just to get to Ireland. They also have their new bag charging scheme for every bag that gets checked in and that must add up to a lot as very few of us can go with just a flight bag. They are not shy of charging a fortune per kg over the limit either. Also the airports they used are subsidised by their governments which probably reduces the costs too them.

Answer 3

Yes...the is a concept for free air travel..the idea is that you bombard your passenger with endless, un relentless unavoidable advertisements through out the trip...think about it the revenue that advertisers will pay knowing that people will be forced to sit through endless adverts stuck in a chair for hours on end with no way of not being infulenced by them...this concept wsa first thought up in the 90's but thank god so far no-one has fully implemented it.....it would like be sitting through endless american TV with delays and cencellations!

Answer 4

it is all down to how many trips they can get out of a single aircraft,where you say it is cheap for your ticket that is true but in order for it to be cheap they have to get as many flights out on time as possible,there staff are on crap money compared with other airlines.The owner of Ryan Air has publicly said that he considers his customers to be cattle and will ship them and treat them as such,you try and make a complaint,they will just tell you that you got your ticket for next to nothing so we do not take complaints,there owner is a very outspoken man and is detested by the uk govenment for the crap that comes out of his gob

Answer 5

I don't know the answer but I've just booked tickets to Edinburgh in August which had a fare value of ZERO, all I had to pay was the taxes!! WIERD!!

Answer 6

well apparently aviation fuel does,nt get taxed so that kinda half the battle but basically the cheaper ur the more people come to u b4 u know it u makin profit

Answer 7

probably use planes that where built in china or korea for next to nothing and use polish people to work on the plane, pick a pole anyone? its a real scheme where you pick a pole to work for you

Answer 8

The other airlines could do it that cheap if they didn't make an absolute fortune on profits.

Answer 9

Durr thicko

Answer 10

i dont know but believe me they MUST be making a profit somewhere!