Just back from Perpignan a day late after a mad dash to Limogue from Carcassonne after Ryan Air just cancelled our flight back to Liverpool.
I would be very sceptical about using them again. Their excuse was 'EXTREME WEATHER AT CARCASSONNE' so bad that they had no problem getting two flights in and out just before & after. They also didnt bother telling us until everyone had booked in and were at the departure gates causing a mad scramble for other flights at the desk at Carcassonne.

It cost six of us over £500 to get back (car & accomodation) we wait to see how much we can claim back.

I was due to fly on the same flight mate, I, my girlfriend and daughter and two other decent reds fans, Chris and Louise managed to transfer to the Stanstead flight that departed an hour later, thanks to Chris who allowed me to queue jump over the barrier in the unorganised chaos at the ryanair desk, get next to him and ask him to get us on the same flight as him, I only had my passport and shouted to my daughter and girlfriend to get me there's immediatley and luckily the ryanair agent quickly hit the button for 5 tickets before quite a few disgruntled passengers hit the roof for my queue jumping! "Hey how did he get to the front of that queue"? followed by my daughters fast thinking reply of "It's his mate he's just checking what he's sorted out for us" We hired a car (thanks Michigan Red) from Stanstead and drove back home yesterday, thanks to Louise who did all the driving as I was too ill to do it, arriving back at around 8 o'clock.

To say ryanair was a disgrace is beyond words, the flight to Shannon due out before ours was diverted to Perpignan and ryanair put on coaches for all those passengers to travel to Perpignan and fly from there, the Liverpool flight apparently was diverted to Montpellier but ryanair had no plans whatsoever to transfer us lot over there to get our flight why not I'm unable to explain They just told us either wait till Thursday for the next flight, transfer to another flight from anywhere else within ryanairs schedule or take a refund! Then to make a complete mockery of the whole situation the Stanstead flight was allowed to land and take off with no problems. I didn't hesitate to jump on that Stanstead flight otherwise it may of been a case of sleeping in Carcassone airport for two nights.

I heard some reds fans decided on a refund and were going to hire a car and drive to calais, what they were thinking about is unexplainable

All in all it could have been a lot worse and the flight out could have been cancelled and we'd have missed the trip completely. Just glad to be home now.

We saw sense about Calais and drove up to Limogue (seemed a good idea at the time)

funny weekend realy four of the six of us had to be rescued from a lift on the first day by Perpignan fire brigade.

Not everybody found the lift incident so amusing at the time!!

I will never use Ryanair again.
They changed my flight twice with no explanation leading to extra cost and inconvenience.
They cancel flights at the drop of a hat, do not give refunds and are basically a bunch of to$$ers.
Dont ask for compensation, they will just laugh at you, plus you have to 50p a minute on their premium phone line to register a complaint
Jet2 or even EasyJet are better plus if we do play after May next time FlyBe go direct to Perpingan from Manchester.

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Think a couple of mates were meant to be on the same flight coming back from our game and went to Nimes instead? Had to pay £20 each way for baggage when we went, certainly won't be using them next year if I can avoid it.

Ryanair was ok for me. Think they need to work on their landings though.

Don't worry, if you loose again tonight, you might not be in the same division as them come next season!

The real reason for the cancellation was that they saw the size of Griff's bag and didn't fancy getting the fire brigade out again.