An Intern's Guide to RyanAir

After a 3 way RyanAir journey, here are a few pointers

• RyanAir does give cheap tickets. Be sure to get them.
• All Ryanair flights to Paris, are marked not with the customary '*', but a (BVA). It means that the flights operate out of the Beauvais Airport, not in Paris. Beauvais is a good 100Kms away from Paris center & takes more than an hour to reach from Paris. One of the many side-businesses operated by RyanAir include fleecing passengers by charging an exorbitant 13e single way to transport you from Port Malliot to Beauvais.
• Many Ryanair airports are pretty far from the city, and special conveyance is required to reach the city. All factors included & jokes apart, RyanAir still makes a good bargain. (Interesting to note than - RyanAir calls the Malmö Sturup Airport, in Sweden as the Copenhagen Airport).
• RyanAir prides itself in being on time about 80% of the time! So, if you are making a 3 leg journey, as we did - good chance that atleast 1 flight will be delayed. RyanAir didn't disappoint us by flying more than an hour late from Venice.
• RyanAir flies Europe's chillad public. As a result, its perfectly normal to carry your own bread and butter and chomp on it while flying.
• Expect a rush for Window seats & be sure to grab yours. They try to eke out a few extra euros from a few people by giving them priority boarding, but not many fall for it.
• Interestingly, those who pass the boarding desk first get pushed to a corner in the bus that conveys you to the plane & might not be the first off the bus, onto the flight. An interesting & open, optimisation problem.
• RyanAir has huge operations & handles many Boeings / Airbuses. So those hoping for the joys & thrills of Propeller Jets might be dejected.
• RyanAir makes it publicly known, in the rare event the land perfectly on time. One is supposed to cheer on such occasions. It isn't too bad an idea to cheer, whenever you land -- on the airport, by clapping loudly. There is a good chance the rest on the flight will join the celebration of surviving the flight.
• On a practical note, pay the extra baggage charge to check-in atleast 1 suitcase per group. Stove all the toothPastes, Colognes, Deos on this. When in Rome, dont stink like IITians do!