Day 1 summer vacation...Flying to Austria

First of the blogs about my vacation hopefully will be quick and too the point. Flying to Austria.
A great deal of thought went into how we would get to Austria this summer. My sister had pointed me in the direction of Ryan Air. Ryan air is probably foreign to anyone who does not fly in the EU very often but was a very popular airline over there. We had to get there.
Our original destination was England but if we going there then I really need to also go to Austria to see my sister. M and I booked flights to London using Air Canada and then found Free. Yes Free flights from London to Austria. The catch is first you need to catch these tickets at just the right moment to get them free and you have to pay for all fees and luggage you check. They are also very strict about the weight of your luggage and will charge 30 EU Dollars for every kilogram over. They are also very strict about getting their and checking in on-time.
The flight to London was uneventful we even managed to get bumped to an earlier flight so we had plenty of time to leave Heathrow airport and travel across London to get to Stanstead Airport. This was a major concern will we make our connecting flight to get to Austria on time.
As it turns out we had plenty of time. We sat in the Stanstead airport people watching for over 3 hours. Stanstead is a major hub for the EU and people from everywhere in the EU are flying through there. The activity never seemed to ease up and the variety of people coming and going was astounding.
Now you ask as every person I has spoken to "how can Ryan Air offer free flights." American airline companies are filing chapter 11 and raising rates like a bad habbit but this company manages to offer Free flights. Well they only operate one kind of plane a Boeing 777. Their flight crew does everything from check luggage to loading luggage and taking boarding passes. They were in and out of an airport in less than 15 minutes. There was no downtime. Now the accomodations are not what americans are used to either. First it was obvious that advertising was also a revenue stream. From the lotto tickets sold during the flight to the advetising space on the head rest of the seat infront of you they were all about advertising. Second there were no frills, the seats didn't even recline. First come first serve boarding and seating, speed in the airports and advertising were obvious things that Ryan Air was doing to keep their costs down. I compared this to a flying school bus.
We got to Austria safe and sound. Em and Thomas met us at the Airport in klagenfurt and could even wave Hi as we got off of the plane.
More stories to follow! Thanks for Reading Fly Ryan Air if you don't mind some missing accomodations next time you are in the EU!