June 23rd Ryanair flight from Dusseldorf back to London

IamFarFromGlorified

Anyone else flying from Dusseldorf back to London on June 23rd? I received an email notifying of a flight change...from a 20:15 departure to a 8:25 departure. However, when I check the ryanair website, it still lists the 20:15 flight for booking purposes. Anyone familiar with how ryanair operates? Can I cancel my current/updated airfare and rebook according to my original schedule? Or will ryanair just change my flight to 8:25 regardless? seems like a mickey mouse operation.

Buru

I'm flying back from Berlin to London, the 23rd with Ryanair, I hope they do not pull something similar on me

but no idea, can't help

Pegasus

mmm that's strange.
I had a flight from Dusseldorf to London on the 30th June (after Werchter) and got the reschedule email yesterday...but my flight was the 13.05 one!
and I looked on the site to see if I could reschedule rather for a later one than 8.25 and saw the 20.15 one (too late for me, I'll fly from Belgium).

give them a call, they seem to have got confused.

Housing Jim

How do Ryanair operate?

Badly, I'm afraid.

I don't know what their policy is on changing flights but they certainly don't do refunds.

As with most airlines of their stature they are free to change any flights until 48 hours notice with no comeback. It kinda sucks

Pegasus

Housing Jim wrote:

How do Ryanair operate?

Badly, I'm afraid.

I don't know what their policy is on changing flights but they certainly don't do refunds.

As with most airlines of their stature they are free to change any flights until 48 hours notice with no comeback. It kinda sucks

actually, if the change is more than 3 hour you can get refund or credit (just have to click a link and fill a couple of details), I chose the refund.

and they also refunded me for a flight (this one actually) that I stupidly booked myself on twice having forgotten I already done it the day before :rolleyes: . I called them and after explaining, they agreed to refund me completely (it was done 3 days later), which they didn't really have to do.

But like every other airlines (at least if you go for the cheap flights rather than the full flexible ones), they do refund only taxes (minus a fee..so basically hardly anything back) if you simply choose to cancel.

I wish they didn't change schedules so easily though :(

boxwine_in_hell

IamFarFromGlorified wrote:

Anyone else flying from Dusseldorf back to London on June 23rd? I received an email notifying of a flight change...from a 20:15 departure to a 8:25 departure. However, when I check the ryanair website, it still lists the 20:15 flight for booking purposes. Anyone familiar with how ryanair operates? Can I cancel my current/updated airfare and rebook according to my original schedule? Or will ryanair just change my flight to 8:25 regardless? seems like a mickey mouse operation.

Be prepared for more flight changes. Ryanair does it all the time. Read the fine print of your ticket. They have the right to change your departure time up to 2 hours and for some reason they do this liberally. They are dirt cheap though, so what do you expect? Just be prepared to roll with it.

surfanddestroy

IamFarFromGlorified wrote:

Anyone else flying from Dusseldorf back to London on June 23rd? I received an email notifying of a flight change...from a 20:15 departure to a 8:25 departure. However, when I check the ryanair website, it still lists the 20:15 flight for booking purposes. Anyone familiar with how ryanair operates? Can I cancel my current/updated airfare and rebook according to my original schedule? Or will ryanair just change my flight to 8:25 regardless? seems like a mickey mouse operation.

I was on the same flight and mine has been changed aswell, as far as I can see there are only two flights that day now, the early one and one quite late on.

JanetWeiss

Here's another Ryanair change.

My flight from London to Dusseldorf on June 20 has been changed from the 19.25 departure to the 20.40 departure. Not so bad, but it means I'm going to arrive in Dusseldorf very late in the evening. I only hope they don't change again making us fly at 3 in the morning.

Jennytree

thats Ryanair for ye - cheapskates. Its unreal how many people will be affected. Are they giving any reasons for the changes?? I'll only be flying with them twice - Dublin to Berlin and London to Eindhoven.

civ_eng_girl

JanetWeiss wrote:

Here's another Ryanair change.

My flight from London to Dusseldorf on June 20 has been changed from the 19.25 departure to the 20.40 departure. Not so bad, but it means I'm going to arrive in Dusseldorf very late in the evening. I only hope they don't change again making us fly at 3 in the morning.

same flight for me!

I'd like to change to the earlier flight that afternoon, but am afraid of making the change for fear of losing out on a flight all together!

lol! i'm such a chicken...

JanetWeiss

civ_eng_girl wrote:

same flight for me!

I'd like to change to the earlier flight that afternoon, but am afraid of making the change for fear of losing out on a flight all together!

lol! i'm such a chicken...

I already confirmed the change so I'll be on the 20.40 flight.
The mail said I could get something like a "travel credit" and then I had to make another reservation. I had the same fear of losing both the flights so I confirmed the "late night one".

Pegasus

boxwine_in_hell wrote:

Be prepared for more flight changes. Ryanair does it all the time. Read the fine print of your ticket. They have the right to change your departure time up to 2 hours and for some reason they do this liberally. They are dirt cheap though, so what do you expect? Just be prepared to roll with it.

I sure hope they don't change my 10:05 Bratislava-London one, at least not for an earlier departure, otherwise I'm fucked...no way can I get to Bratislava Airport before 8am at best!

boxwine_in_hell

Pegasus wrote:

I sure hope they don't change my 10:05 Bratislava-London one, at least not for an earlier departure, otherwise I'm fucked...no way can I get to Bratislava Airport before 8am at best!

Good luck. They're kind of sketchy but when you use them a lot you just sort of come to expect it and deal with it. You can't have real rigid travel plans when flying with Ryanair. I've flown them maybe a dozen times and I don't recall ever having a flight changed more than an hour in either direction. Seems to me it was usally about 20-40 minutes.

Hinny

BeerBaron wrote:

This is the very reason that I am going to pay a few extra bucks and book a flight on a "rea;" airline from London to Dusseldorf.

Yeah. Except for me, it's this, plus London-Copenhagen and Copenhagen-Amsterdam

Better be safe and broke than sorry and miss out on why I'm doing this tour in the first place..

Pegasus

well, of the flights have booked, so far it's the 3rd that got changed.
the first 2 were respectively Iberia (NOT a low cost airline!) and Air Berlin...though those 2 were only by 20mn.

IamFarFromGlorified

IamFarFromGlorified wrote:

Anyone else flying from Dusseldorf back to London on June 23rd? I received an email notifying of a flight change...from a 20:15 departure to a 8:25 departure. However, when I check the ryanair website, it still lists the 20:15 flight for booking purposes. Anyone familiar with how ryanair operates? Can I cancel my current/updated airfare and rebook according to my original schedule? Or will ryanair just change my flight to 8:25 regardless? seems like a mickey mouse operation.

After taking the long road through the ryanair customer service hotline, here's some advice. Reject the new flight they've bumped you to take and rebook the same or new flight that fits your schedule better.

civ_eng_girl

Pegasus wrote:

well, of the flights have booked, so far it's the 3rd that got changed.
the first 2 were respectively Iberia (NOT a low cost airline!) and Air Berlin...though those 2 were only by 20mn.

Same with me! First a Ryanair change, then a Zoom Airlines change out of Paris, and now the Dusseldorf show venue!! :rolleyes:

My head's starting to spin!

JanetWeiss

Flights surprises: episode 2.

My Copenhagen - Rome flight on June 28 has been cancelled. It's Air Berlin.
They wrote to me saying I'll get money back. In the meantime I had to book another flight with a different company...

Waxx

JanetWeiss wrote:

Here's another Ryanair change.

My flight from London to Dusseldorf on June 20 has been changed from the 19.25 departure to the 20.40 departure. Not so bad, but it means I'm going to arrive in Dusseldorf very late in the evening. I only hope they don't change again making us fly at 3 in the morning.

I hope you realise that Ryanair doesn't operate from Dusseldorf, but from a tiny airport nearby ... It takes about an hour to get from the airport to Dusseldorf. The airport does provide a bus shuttle service, however.

JanetWeiss

Waxx wrote:

I hope you realise that Ryanair doesn't operate from Dusseldorf, but from a tiny airport nearby ... It takes about an hour to get from the airport to Dusseldorf. The airport does provide a bus shuttle service, however.

yes, I know, thanks.
I'm going to arrive to the hotel very late, I suppose. Not a big problem, I Know I'm not going to sleep very much those days...

meme

I am arriving in London on the 18th at noon (Gatwick) and I have recurrent nightmares that the flight will be late or cancelled :(