{"id":17,"date":"2017-09-15T19:37:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T19:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rejoyce.net\/blog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2017-09-15T19:37:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T19:37:46","slug":"ryanairs-lowest-fare-guarantee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rejoyce.net\/blog\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Ryanair&#8217;s lowest fare guarantee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently booking a flight from Dublin (DUB) &#8211; Manchester (MAN), I used\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.skyscanner.ie\">Skyscanner<\/a>\u00a0to check the prices and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ryanair.com\/ie\/en\/\">Ryanair<\/a> were coming in at about \u20ac40, I wasn&#8217;t ready to book and missed the opportunity. The next day I checked again and the same flight had gone up to \u20ac101.99, I shopped around again and discovered the following :<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/logos.skyscnr.com\/images\/airlines\/small\/FR.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>06:30 DUB<br \/>\n1h 05<br \/>\nDirect<br \/>\n07:35 MAN<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"big\" src=\"https:\/\/logos.skyscnr.com\/images\/airlines\/small\/EI.png\" alt=\"Aer Lingus\" data-name=\"Aer Lingus\" \/><\/p>\n<p>06:30\u00a0DUB<br \/>\n1h 05<br \/>\nDirect<br \/>\n07:35\u00a0MAN<\/p>\n<p>2 airlines, 2 flights, at exactly the same time, I checked the prices and Aer Lingus was \u20ac79.99 and Ryanair, \u20ac101.99, a difference of \u20ac22 one-way. \u00a0What happened to the low fares airline? I googled and found the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ryanair.com\/ie\/en\/useful-info\/about-ryanair\/our-guarantees\">Ryanair lowest fare guarantee<\/a> &#8211; lowest fare or double the difference. Now, I&#8217;m always up for a challenge and I also prefer flying Ryanair (because they are more likely to be arrive on-time) so I tried it out.<\/p>\n<p>The main conditions are as follows :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>same route<\/li>\n<li>flights are within 2 hours of each other<\/li>\n<li>claim must be made within 1 hour<\/li>\n<li>max 1 claim per month, 2 per year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I booked with Ryanair, <a href=\"http:\/\/rejoyce.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Aerlingus-Screen-Shot.jpg\">screen-shotted<\/a> Aer Lingus and completed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ryanair.com\/content\/dam\/ryanair\/usefulinfo\/Double_Difference_Claim_Form.doc\">form<\/a>, emailed both to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ryanair.com\/content\/dam\/ryanair\/usefulinfo\/Double_Difference_Claim_Form.doc\">priceguarantee@ryanair.com<\/a>, I was a bit skeptical, but received a reply back 3 hours 24 mins later\u00a0saying the claim had been accepted and they would refund \u20ac36 after I had travelled the route. The Aer Lingus price had since gone up to \u20ac83.99 so the price difference had reduced to \u20ac18. I checked my credit card today and they have refunded the \u20ac36.<\/p>\n<p>Was I right to fly Ryanair?<\/p>\n<p>FR552 (Ryanair) landed at 7:28am (due 7:35am)<\/p>\n<p>EI202 (Aer Lingus) landed at 7:33am\u00a0(due 7:35am)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently booking a flight from Dublin (DUB) &#8211; Manchester (MAN), I used\u00a0Skyscanner\u00a0to check the prices and Ryanair were coming in at about \u20ac40, I wasn&#8217;t ready to book and missed the opportunity. The next day I checked again and the same flight had gone up to \u20ac101.99, I shopped around again and discovered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rejoyce.net\/blog\/?p=17\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ryanair&#8217;s lowest fare guarantee<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rejoyce.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rejoyce.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rejoyce.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rejoyce.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rejoyce.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rejoyce.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21,"href":"https:\/\/rejoyce.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rejoyce.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rejoyce.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rejoyce.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}