Ryanair: Online check-in for children & Priority boarding Q.

stoneman

Or you could try and find an airline that doesn't treat you as the cash cow for their loss leader £5 bookings. Sometimes it just doesn't pay to try and find the cheapest way from A to B

WiseInvestor_2

babybimbles wrote: »

It's hard to believe that there might be adults on board who would not be prepared to change seats so that a parent could be sitting with their child

What if the adult suffers from air sickness so needs to have the Window seat?
Or if they require regular visits to the toilet so they need the Aisle seat?
Or they've paid for Priority Boarding to sit with their husband/wife/mistress... only to be asked to separate to re-seat a family who haven't paid the extra?

susancs

babybimbles wrote: »

Thank you for the advice.

It's hard to believe that there might be adults on board who would not be prepared to change seats so that a parent could be sitting with their child. My 7 year old would be fine but my 5 year old would be scared and there's no way my 2 year old could sit separate to me. To be honest I don't think another adult would WANT to sit next to her! :rotfl:

Lol, most adults would pay not to sit next to my 2 -"are we nearly there?" is asked every few minutes,fidgeting, snacking, toilet runs etc. Hubby loves being on his own in another row-he gets great peace.

Vendee

WiseInvestor wrote: »

Whether I consider A&F to be adequate is irrelevant because it's still legal.

Well the CAA state that "children and infants should be seated where they can be adequately supervised by an accompanying adult in the event of turbulence or a decompression in the cabin". You can't supervise an infant seated in seat F if you are in seat A.

Of course that's all irrelevant because Ryanair's fleet is on the Irish register and as such is regulated by the Irish Aviation Authority.

babybimbles

WiseInvestor wrote: »

What if the adult suffers from air sickness so needs to have the Window seat?
Or if they require regular visits to the toilet so they need the Aisle seat?
Or they've paid for Priority Boarding to sit with their husband/wife/mistress... only to be asked to separate to re-seat a family who haven't paid the extra?

So you think the 'whole' plane would have 'needs' as you put it that would mean mine or other children sitting on their own, possibly scared stiff?? I doubt it somehow. I wouldn't ask someone who has a good reason to stay put in their seat. I would just pray that the situation could be resolved so everyone is happy.

i presume you don't have kids?

dmg24

babybimbles wrote: »

So you think the 'whole' plane would have 'needs' as you put it that would mean mine or other children sitting on their own, possibly scared stiff?? I doubt it somehow. I wouldn't ask someone who has a good reason to stay put in their seat. I would just pray that the situation could be resolved so everyone is happy.

i presume you don't have kids?

WiseInvestor did not say that. Their point was more that you would not necessarily know why a person had chosen a particular seat. For instance, I have to have an exit row or an aisle seat, but you would not know that to look at me, and it is not something that I would be willing to explain or justify to another passenger.

WiseInvestor's point is that, it is not just children that have needs. If an adult has to pay for priority boarding to ensure that their needs are met, then why shouldn't a family?

ynot2005

i find there is an unfair assumption by families of young babies that passengers should be moved for thieir benefit, even though they are last on carrying starbucks goodie bags which was obviously the reason for their late arrival

and then you get the toys out of the pram being rattled and banged about for 2 hours..yep thats dad who dosent give two hoots about anyone around him,

i would move seats as a rule, but if i saw the parents as soon as they walk into the cabin and ordered the cabin crew to make room for them and they are late on, i wont budge

there are parents and parents.

i had a bad trip last time, the parents were well annoying and they knew it, im not sure why they didnt leave baby to sleep or sit nicely, but they attitude was its our baby and you have to put up with it

silvercar

I flew back to UK with Ryanair yesterday and all online check-in passengers were given priority boarding. Some passengers with hand luggage only were sent back to check-in their hand luggage as it fell foul of the regulations and went straight to the front of the check-in desk, by passing the queues to check-in and then returned - still with their priority boarding passes in hand. So if you want to risk it, they saved on the check in charge and got priority boarding.

There were families with young children getting PB, but I don't know if they had paid for it or not.

Interestingly on a flight of about 270 people, I would estimate that 200 had priority boarding! Clearly Ryanair doesn't stop selling PB when the numbers increase.

We were boarding about 250th and there were still rows of 3 left, if you moved towards the wings. People load up at either end and grap the nearest group of seats together, if you walk past the hoards towards the middle of the plane there are plenty of seats.

Vendee

silvercar wrote: »

Interestingly on a flight of about 270 people, I would estimate that 200 had priority boarding! Clearly Ryanair doesn't stop selling PB when the numbers increase.

The 737-800 only seats 189 passengers. Your flight with 270 passengers must have been "cosy". Priority boarding is restricted to 90 passengers.

curtlyb

silvercar wrote: »

I flew back to UK with Ryanair yesterday and all online check-in passengers were given priority boarding............

We flew back yesterday as well, since Ryanairs change of policy in June the signage has changed, Priority Card Holders + 'Check n Go' Priority were first on then the rabble of normal card + 'Check n Go' passengers were allowed to stampede !!!
We must have had tight****s on our flight as only about 12 people were priority :rotfl::rotfl:bags of room on-board except for the family from hell who had three adults and six kids & were last on the plane hoping to sit together..... didn't bother them though, they just shouted at each other for the entire flight :rolleyes: