Showing posts with label ryanair. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ryanair. Show all posts

Monday, September 21, 2009

Budget airlines have falling online reputations

It comes as no real suprise to read that the budget airlines of Easyjet and Ryanair have declining reputations online, given PR own-goals such as ranting on blog that dare criticise their booking process.

The bi-annual Kaizo Advocacy Index (KAI), which is designed to provide a view on leading brands' online reputation and recommendations have the following recent report:

For how long can some companies in the commoditised markets such as air travel continue to have arrogance?

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Ryanair comes under more criticsm

Following my recent posts about Ryanair's PR suicide of insulting a blogger and then going on to insult the whole blogosphere, I couldn't help but laugh when I saw this mock Ryanair Safety Card: http://www.lowcarbontravel.com/2009/03/new-ryanair-safety-card.html

However, it does beg the question as to what stunt they will pull next.

BTW: Happy St Patrick's Day everyone

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Ryanair comments on blog

Its not often I get annoyed about somthing I see online (as I think I've seen most type of things by now). However I was most displeased to see that a blog exposing a bug in the Ryanair booking website was repeatedly subjected to insulting comments by people claiming to be RyanAir staff:
http://www.jason-roe.com/blog/free-ryanair-free-flight-bug/

If indeed it really was staff at Ryanair hurtling the abuse.... then not only is this another PR own-goal for the company, but perhaps someone should point out that their time could be better spent investigating & fixing issues than being rude on someone's blog?

Update:
Ryanair has confirmed that it was a member of its staff who commented on Jason Roe's blog last week. However the complete response from Stephen McNamara of Ryanair has left many bloggers even more dumbfounded.
"It is Ryanair policy not to waste time and energy corresponding with idiot bloggers and Ryanair can confirm that it won't be happening again."Lunatic bloggers can have the blog sphere all to themselves as our people are far too busy driving down the cost of air travel".

Oh.... how silly can this all get?