Comment by dwood_dev
1 day ago
If you had ever purchased a RyanAir ticket you would understand. You get up charged for everything and have to deselect all the up charges at multiple screens. It is their operating model to sell basically free seats, and profit on upsells. Third parties eliminate a large portion of their upsell pipeline.
Ryanair is cheap, they charge extra for everything. But the tradeoff is you get where you are going for cheap if you avoid all the extras, including bottled water.
The funny part is how most OTAs are pretty awful with addons themselves. I know for a fact that certain OTAs will sell tickets at a loss hoping you trip up on one of their checkboxes, like the 15€ automatic checkin service many offer.
I just now booked a ticket on gotogate, paid 80 euro and received a receipt from ITA airways for 120 euro. They apparently lost 40 euro on this sale, I only had to click "no" on about 18 questions.
Go To Gate are on my ban list personally for awful behaviour when a flight was cancelled.
Most airports have water fountains, even in Europe where they're not as common.
Whenever I fly, I always take an empty water bottle through security and then fill it in the secure zone.
They can be hard to find! It took me about 15 minutes of searching in PMI one time recently…
> You get up charged for everything
No you don't. You can:
> deselect all the up charges
> Third parties eliminate a large portion of their upsell pipeline.
This is nonsense. Third parties cannot provide extra luggage space, priority boarding etc.
A large part of the pipeline consists of insurance, rental cars, hotels, etc.
I'd bet that's the smaller part not least because customers know there they have a choice.