Ryanair planning TATL flights for under 20 euors R/T

[Carolinian Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Carolinian]

Ryanair says it will be starting Trans-Atlantic flights starting at less than 20 euros round trip after it buys the long haul planes.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/n...-under-10.html

The bad news is that it will be several years before they get the planes to do it.

[T. R. Oglodyte Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close T. R. Oglodyte]

And how many other unavoidable fees will they add on?

Assuredly there will be a ticketing fee, which will vary with the ticketing method, but there will be no way to buy a ticket that does not incur some fee. There there will probably be a fuel surcharge, which will be added to all tickets. Then there will be some kind of mandatory carbon emissions tax, which will vary depending on national airspace. Then all fees charged by the departing and arriving airports will probably be added to the base fare, as well as security charges assessed by airport security operations.

So the absolute lowest price that a ticket would ever be available for isn't going to be anywhere near 20 euros, except perhaps as part of a promotional period. It may still be a bargain ticket, but I doubt that people will be able to plunk down €20 and exit a website with a TATL ticket.

[Carolinian Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Carolinian]

The mandatory government taxes and fees are unavoidable. Ryanair does have ticketing fees, which are not huge, and they offer one method that is without fee, but a pain to use if you do not live in the UK. They have never done fuel surcharges, and in fact use that in their advertising to differentiate themselves from the legacy airlines which mostly do in Europe. You do have to be careful to avoid their dynamic currency conversion fee, which is a ripoff, but can be avoided. They do charge for baggage and carryons are more limited than US airlines. I have always been able to make do with Ryanair's carryon allowance, but that might be pushing it for TATL flights.

As far as I know, the carbon emissions tax is still on hold. India passed a law prohibiting their airlines from paying it, and China threatened to stop buying planes from Airbus if the EU went ahead with it. The US also protested, but not as strongly as those two.

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After doing 1 flight with them. I swore I would never go to the circus again. But at that price I would fly into an unpopular area and rent a car and drive.

[Carolinian Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Carolinian]

Here is a more detailed analysis of what Ryan Air's costs would be:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/tr...e-savings.html

That, of course is based on UK departures, and for other countries, the oppressive UK APD of GBP 67 ($100) would not apply.