I normally get Ryanair to pick me up at home and drop me off at the pub, saves me £££££’s.
Well, the reason some Ryanair flights are so cheap is because they’re going there anyway.
It’s like if you saw a group of people get into a taxi, agree with the driver £50 for the fare, you’re going to the same place, so you say to the driver, “I’m going there too, will give you £5 to take me aswell, else wise I won’t bother”.
The driver incentivised to just take you and your £5, because his costs of the travel have more or less been paid by the first people who wanted to go, so taking you to the same place is just going to give him £5 he didn’t otherwise have.
Effectively you’re getting a cheap flight because it’s in Ryanair’s interest to take as many people as possible, even if that means charging them less than what is individually profitable, by the point they’re offering cheap flights every seat they fill is just additional profit.
You don’t get a fist up your arse from a taxi driver though. That costs extra.
Well if you could fit 100 people in the taxi…
Well here it is, the most brain dead thing i’ve seen on Reddit this year.
Bleedin’ right, mate! Ryanair’ll fly yer piss-drunk arse clear ‘cross Europe for less than a pint an’ a bag o’ crisps. But stagger out the boozer here an’ the cabbie’s fleecin’ ya like you’ve just nicked his nan’s pension. World’s proper bollocksed, innit? At this rate, I’ll be movin’ to feckin’ Spain an’ flyin’ back for work just to save me bloody wallet!
The taxi from my local airport home is £45, and I’m only 5 miles from the airport!
But at least the cabbie doesn’t charge you £50000 for your luggage 🤣🤣
Only one of those actually pay their taxes
If the taxi had 140 passengers in it, it would cost a lot less.
The train to the airport costs more than the flight.
I’m all for saving emissions and all, but something is wrong in the above
Taxi – 1 passenger
Airplane – 100 passengers or even more
cost divided by passenger amount
Those 9.99 flights out, one way, are to pay for the cheap return flights that the company has to go to anyway.
If someone has paid for return flights, the company has to honor that. They have to send a plane to bring you home. Those cheap one way flights are you on that flight out to pick up the hangovers and bring them home.
I mean, were there 200 other people in the taxi, some of which paid £300?
“World” economy*
Ok, taxi is personal ride. But trains?
* They’re gonna go there, even without you
* They’re gonna be packed with people
Why is it cheaper to fly than to take a train?
It’s also wild that I can fly to Edinburgh cheaper than getting on the train…
Weird how we can supply water to a whole village in Africa for £3 a month, but my horrible limescale-filled water in a grotty run down city is nearly £60 a month.
The taxi ride is a lot nicer tbf
He’s getting it cheap. Taxis here would charge me €23 for same short trip.
Congratulations, you just discovered economies of scale.
You get what you pay for.
How many people in the taxi and how many on the plane ? Bam! That’s how it’s works.
Air fuel is massively subsidized….
Basically your taxes give corporate tax relief, corporate welfare.
The taxi driver though receives no such subsidy.
An example of how the little guy is f**ked.
No £8.99 is not a representative price, not remotely, not without that tax subsidy.
A taxi is the equivalent of a private jet while a passenger plane is the equivalent of a bus…
You can fly to Spain for less than a meal deal
Tell me you don’t understand “economic” without telling me you don’t understand economic
No one tell Danny about the trains
Only £1.70 goes to the driver, Uber takes the rest.
Yes, because you do not share the taxi with 300 other people of which 200 pay way more than that but not show up in the marketing campaigns.
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How many of you were in that taxi?
I normally get Ryanair to pick me up at home and drop me off at the pub, saves me £££££’s.
Well, the reason some Ryanair flights are so cheap is because they’re going there anyway.
It’s like if you saw a group of people get into a taxi, agree with the driver £50 for the fare, you’re going to the same place, so you say to the driver, “I’m going there too, will give you £5 to take me aswell, else wise I won’t bother”.
The driver incentivised to just take you and your £5, because his costs of the travel have more or less been paid by the first people who wanted to go, so taking you to the same place is just going to give him £5 he didn’t otherwise have.
Effectively you’re getting a cheap flight because it’s in Ryanair’s interest to take as many people as possible, even if that means charging them less than what is individually profitable, by the point they’re offering cheap flights every seat they fill is just additional profit.
You don’t get a fist up your arse from a taxi driver though. That costs extra.
Well if you could fit 100 people in the taxi…
Well here it is, the most brain dead thing i’ve seen on Reddit this year.
Bleedin’ right, mate! Ryanair’ll fly yer piss-drunk arse clear ‘cross Europe for less than a pint an’ a bag o’ crisps. But stagger out the boozer here an’ the cabbie’s fleecin’ ya like you’ve just nicked his nan’s pension. World’s proper bollocksed, innit? At this rate, I’ll be movin’ to feckin’ Spain an’ flyin’ back for work just to save me bloody wallet!
The taxi from my local airport home is £45, and I’m only 5 miles from the airport!
But at least the cabbie doesn’t charge you £50000 for your luggage 🤣🤣
Only one of those actually pay their taxes
If the taxi had 140 passengers in it, it would cost a lot less.
The train to the airport costs more than the flight.
I’m all for saving emissions and all, but something is wrong in the above
Taxi – 1 passenger
Airplane – 100 passengers or even more
cost divided by passenger amount
Those 9.99 flights out, one way, are to pay for the cheap return flights that the company has to go to anyway.
If someone has paid for return flights, the company has to honor that. They have to send a plane to bring you home. Those cheap one way flights are you on that flight out to pick up the hangovers and bring them home.
I mean, were there 200 other people in the taxi, some of which paid £300?
“World” economy*
Ok, taxi is personal ride. But trains?
* They’re gonna go there, even without you
* They’re gonna be packed with people
Why is it cheaper to fly than to take a train?
It’s also wild that I can fly to Edinburgh cheaper than getting on the train…
Weird how we can supply water to a whole village in Africa for £3 a month, but my horrible limescale-filled water in a grotty run down city is nearly £60 a month.
The taxi ride is a lot nicer tbf
He’s getting it cheap. Taxis here would charge me €23 for same short trip.
Congratulations, you just discovered economies of scale.
You get what you pay for.
How many people in the taxi and how many on the plane ? Bam! That’s how it’s works.
Air fuel is massively subsidized….
Basically your taxes give corporate tax relief, corporate welfare.
The taxi driver though receives no such subsidy.
An example of how the little guy is f**ked.
No £8.99 is not a representative price, not remotely, not without that tax subsidy.
A taxi is the equivalent of a private jet while a passenger plane is the equivalent of a bus…
You can fly to Spain for less than a meal deal
Tell me you don’t understand “economic” without telling me you don’t understand economic
No one tell Danny about the trains
Only £1.70 goes to the driver, Uber takes the rest.
Yes, because you do not share the taxi with 300 other people of which 200 pay way more than that but not show up in the marketing campaigns.
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