Ryanair launches £9.99 flash sale to celebrate the new series of Game Of Thrones
The low-cost airline is selling 250,000 seats on more than 900 routes across Europe for under a tenner
IF you’ve already returned from summer holiday and are looking gloomily at endless months of being chained to the desk, it’s worth checking out the Ryanair winter sale.
The low-cost airline has launched a flash sale in celebration of the new series of Game Of Thrones starting next weekend, with the catchline “Winter Fares Coming.”
They are selling 250,000 seats on more than 900 routes from £9.99 for customers travelling in October and November.
£9.99 flights from London Stansted are travelling to a range of locations, with a late sunshine break possible in Barcelona, Bordeaux, Alicante and Ibiza.
There are also plenty of culture trips available, including trips to Pisa, Verona and Copenhagen.
Anyone wanting to take part in the sale must move quickly though, as fares must be booked before midnight tomorrow.
Customers wanting to check in luggage or choose their own seats will also have to pay extra.
In recent weeks, Ryanair passengers have accused the low-cost airline of changing its seating policy so that travellers from the same booking are split up.
Couples and people travelling in groups complain that they are being punished with separate middle seats in different rows if they don’t pay an additional charge for reserved seating.
They claimed that until a couple of months ago, they were automatically seated together.
While Ryanair had previously denied specifically allocating middle seats, the airline admitted to Sun Online last month that they do avoid giving aisle and window seats to people who don’t pay a reservation fee.
But in a new statement this week, the airline reiterated its initial claim that “customers who choose free random seats get exactly that – a random seat.”
A spokesperson said: “The likelihood of passengers being allocated middle row seats on heavily booked flights is high because reserved seat customers overwhelmingly prefer window and aisle seats.”
But the airline’s claims was rubbished by a new study by Oxford University Statistical Consultancy last month, who say that the seating allocation is far from random.
In fact, passengers have more chance of winning the National Lottery jackpot than being allocated middle seats at random on a Ryanair flight.