Comments on: Ryan Air and How Not to do Reputation Management

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:03:47 +0000

First 2 comments are completely correct.
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Ryanair want to be known as “cheap”. As commented above 99% of people booking on Ryanair are doing so only because it is “cheap”.
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In fact all the negative publicity is paradoxically good publicity because it engrains in the public conciousness to expect a lousy customer service if things go wrong. The 99% know exactly what they are getting
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The 99% are booking with Ryanair because of the 3 P’s – ‘Price’, ‘Price’ and ummm ‘Price’, absolutely no other reason, customer service is not what they are thinking about.
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Ryanair aren’t really interested in the 1% who are going to moan about them, in fact they’d prefer them to fly with someone else and not have the hassle.
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By: Peter Cooper

Peter Cooper — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:36:18 +0000

They couldn�t care less about what bloggers write about them. It�s not going to lose them any sleep or any business.

There’s no way you can say that with any certainty.

I won’t be flying with them and will definitely not be recommending them again when I get by asked by friends overseas about budget airlines in Europe.

I’m not offended by what they’ve said, but if their response is that poor, I dread to imagine what their customer service is like when they get real complaints. If they can’t respond maturely to this issue, it’s pretty much guaranteed they’ll be awful if I ever had a real issue with them.

By: Todd Mintz

Todd Mintz — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:42:13 +0000

Unless their end game was link development…in that case, they likely did pretty well (though I’m sure the anchor text would be pretty negative overall) :.)

By: Steen �hman

Steen �hman — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:36:39 +0000

It’s a great case … how in the world can they bee so stupid.

But it’s hard to handle social media in the beginning …

Ryanair proberly have a lot of quite unhappy customers – low price and quite low service normally don’t give the most positive response.

They just have to remember – they get what they pay for.

Steen

By: Lyndoman

Lyndoman — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:34:17 +0000

Mike, finally someone shows a bit of intelligence.

I doubt very much that Ryanair (are you happy now ;) are going to be jumping with joy that a negative bit of information is ranking for their name.

Usually I find in business that if a large number of vocal people are giving you a slagging it’s bad for business. Especially an airline, and the idea that they do not care is simply a bit of spin.

And you bet your arse their shareholders care.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:23:47 +0000

Just looking at the SERPs for “ryan air bloggers” and “ryanair bloggers” along with a number of other combinations and I believe there is method of Lyndon’s madness..

By: Britalian

Britalian — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:17:40 +0000

Seriously pedantic, but it is Ryanair. It is written that way everywhere, including Dave Naylor’s post.

What would Ryanair gain by hiring an SEO or Social Media marketer? They don’t exactly need to attract more people to their site.

They couldn’t care less about what bloggers write about them. It’s not going to lose them any sleep or any business.

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:05:52 +0000

In what was does this actually hurt Ryanair? They’re getting written about, a lot, and it creates more links to them as well from very topical posts.

Google don’t know whether the post is supporting or slating Ryanair.

And, as others pointed out in the Travolution forum, 99% of Ryanair travellers only care about getting a cheap flight.

As for reputation management, Ryanair doesn’t care. They don’t want to be a loved brand, they’re working at being a known and used brand.