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Ryanair to shut web site for three days
RYANAIR WIll drop around euro 30 million when it closes its web site next week, some number crunchers have predicted.
The "cheap" flyer is under pressure from the UK’s Office of Fair Trading to make its pricing more clear and upfront.
The firm was supposed to have done this by the end of January but cited technical difficulties. It needs to install new software so that flight bookers can see the total cost of flying at all stages in the online booking process.
Ninety nine per cent of its bookings are done online and the Irish airline said advance bookings meant it wouldn’t lose money.
A spokesRyan said: "We expect that the middle pages of the booking process will be fully tax inclusive once we replace the existing 'Openskies' booking engine with the 'Newskies' upgraded software." µ
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Try Michael O'Leary, the actual boss. :)

I heard the web site was developed for them for FREE by students!
Dear Mr Paddy McRyan

I understand you are planning to take your booking website offline for 3 days to perform crucial upgrades, a move that will cost an estimated 30 million euros. 

I have a proposition for you. for the cost of 15 million euros, i will provide you with new servers which will be configured offline with your new upgrade. 

Then, at a pre-agreed time, i will change the connection from the old server to the newly upgraded one.

This should leave you offline for a matter of seconds.

You therefore save 15 million euros by not losing sales and I can buy guinness until the cows come home.

I look forward to hearing from you.