Can we have the old Ryanair website back?

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BOXtheFOX

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The new Ryanair website is up and running. Unfortunately at first glance it is not as good as the older website, for the customer that is. Previously you were able to click on "find lowest fares" and be shown a month of choices. On the new site you can only see two days before and two days after. Unless I am missing something?
 
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The Ryanair site is very slow today. As for finding lowest fares, if you select the "book now" option at the top of the home page and then tick "my travel dates are flexible" the fares for 6 days are displayed.
However I found the old system displayed more fare options.
 
Anyone know if the 1 million seat sale tomorrow is confined to UK as the site states 1p seats ?
 
Site very very slow today. Seems to be taking ages for the pages to turn. I hope this is only due to pressure on their site today......but then again I thought that was one of the reasons why they were upgrading their site to stop this type of thing happening.
 
I can see it now:

For a small fee you can now expedite Ryanair.com page refreshes:

20 seconds+ FREE!
10-20 seconds: €5
1-10 seconds: €10
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Maybe I should pitch this one to Mick himself?

 
Better break out the oul' wallet so - looks like the site (the bookings site, that it - homepage still active) has fallen over! BIIIIGGGG timeouts, etc.
 
Doh!
No doubt MickO will blame the DAA, minister, air traffic controllers, EU etc.
 
Geez! Am I the only one that thinks O'Leary is a superhero. Has everyone forgotten the 'good old days' when you paid two times the average weekly wage to fly return from Blighty? Ok, so you got a fairly decent breakfast on the early flights .......... and a bite and a drink on the later ones ...... and two full time ground hostesses at the exit/entry door and lots of 'final calls' if having a bit of a session in the departre lounge. But give me todays way of doing business any day. Just think how good and cheaper it would be without the extra security.
 
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How handy for ryan air when theyre selling cheap €10 flights
 
I thought they might improve the UI of the site as part of the upgrade but it is as tacky as ever. Have to say I'd be ashamed to have any responsibility/input into that site. And let's not start on it being php based, it's poor JavaScript, it's WAI compliance issues and it's poor localisation to name a few flaws.

Someone should tell then that they can have a decent looking site that is still performant.
 
I would have said "basic" but is this "tacky" look and feel not actually part of Ryanair's branding at this stage? I am not being facetious. Their website has a distinctive look and feel and people recognise it almost immediately. More so that more polished/professional looking sites. Just a thought....
 

I assume you are a computer geek and like to talk in that funny speak beloved of 'techies' - can you translate the above jargon/acronyms into plain english for us mere mortals when you have a minute? Cheers.
 
fintans said:
I assume you are a computer geek and like to talk in that funny speak beloved of 'techies' - can you translate the above jargon/acronyms into plain english for us mere mortals when you have a minute? Cheers.
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I dont' know if it's just me but the new site is awfully slow - really terrible performance issues on it .. taking up to a minute between page loads in the booking process.
 
Also I thought that one of the points of this upgrade was to comply with regulatory requirements regarding displaying all inclusive pricing

Unless I'm missing something the (excruciatingly slow) booking engine still displays the fares in the same way as before ?
 
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