Friday 8 May 2009

Ryanair offers a break to heartbroken Munster fans


Who says Micheal O'Leary doesn't have a heart? Sure Ryanair may charge you for everything and play irratating bingo adverts mid-air but it seems Ryanair does have a softer side after all.

Ryanair is offering a losers refund to Munster fans who booked a flight to Scotland to watch the Heineken Cup final on May 23rd. After Leinster's shock crushing of Munster last weekend, it seems certain that many Munster fans were left with travel plans they no longer wanted.

Ryanair is offering up to a €100 refund per return flight (or a full refund of the return airfare if less than €100) to people who booked on to certain match time flights.

A full list of applicable flights is available at http://www.ryanair.com/site/IE/notices.php?notice=gops&code=090506-munster-refund-6may-GB

Just this morning, Ryanair announced that it would not implement a fat tax voted in by customers. Over 16,000 passengers voted in an online poll recently to identify how the airline should charge larger passengers.

Ryanair’s Stephen McNamara said 'over 30,000 Ryanair passengers called for a ‘fat tax’ for very large passengers. However, as all passengers will soon be checking in online we have no way of collecting a ‘fat tax’ without disrupting our un-rivalled punctuality and our 25 minute turnarounds'.

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