Totally Bad Airline, in all its aspects. - Cabin Crew Ryanair Employee Review

1.0
10 Dec 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You meet lots of international people, sometimes the crew is funny, stable roster (5-2 off-5-3 off), good salary during summertime only. Lots of bases around Europe, possibility to get a transfer anywhere based only on you sales performance.That's all.

Cons

You have to pay for your training course (2000 € approx) to give in advance or giving 1200 € in advance and then deduction from salary for the next 8 months. Totally sales orientated airline, with managers and supervisors blaming on you if you don't sell beers, chips, scratchcards etc, making you feeling like an undeserving person. You have to pay for your uniform every month, actually a really crap uniform, not sized and low quality material. Initial salary with training deduction is 600 to 800 € depending on how many hours you fly and the base, first months are really difficult to survive, struggle to eat. You have to pay for your staff travel, if you want to go back home you have to pay minimum 50 € one way, infact it's better checking the online Ryanair website for cheaper fares, even because as a staff travel your seat is not guaranteed. No food for crew, you have to pay even for your Kitkat, or bottle of water. They keep you on stress continuosly, and if you call sick it's going to be a fight between you and the company, they gonna investigate on you, on why you called sick, what do you eat, and giving you ultimatum that in case you call sick again you going to be dismissed, that is what happened to me. Promotions and base transfers based purely on a sales performance and attendance basis. If you leave the company before one year contract, you need to pay 200 € plus the holidays you had in the past plus the allowance they gave to you at the beginning for a total of 1000 € approx. Base supervisors always ready to blame on you, checking your grooming, checking your bags, and stressing you all the time. Competitions always in progress between crew members, who sells a lot could win trips or dinners.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
7 May 2025
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CEO approval
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Pros

Decent salary, but still not enough, and not even comparable with other airlines, also the low cost ones.

Cons

Everything. The worst company I have ever worked for, 0, ZERO respect for the workers. Your are just a slave, that needs to sell as much scratch cards and products on board. If you don't do it? They will call you on your personal mobile and tell you that it's not acceptable and stuff like this, trying to scare you. I have seen people FIRED for this, and even for other stupid things. Also sometimes, it's SO unsafe! There's cabin crews, that I met, that literally don't know anything about this work, not even closing the doors properly. Absolutely a disaster, but yeah, you just need to sell as much as possible, who cares about the rest.. Also, you are not getting paid for OT, it doesn't even exist, usually you do 4 flights in a day, you could start at 5:00 AM (It means that you need to get up at 3:30 maybe, and be at the airport on time), and get back home after 5/6 PM, it happened to me a lot of times, and my health, was absolutely a disaster, I had to leave because I had a lot of medical conditions due to flying too much. I couldn't do that anymore.

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