Ryanair baggage gestapo @ Lanzarote Airport

Bob_the_Saver

Bob_the_Saver wrote: »

I've got 3 Ryanair flights over the next few days, my cabin baggage will be under 10Kg and within their maximum size, I guarantee I will have no problems.

Just to report as predicted I had no problems with my bag at all, all flights arrived early and I got seats 1a, 1b & 1a again - I'm making the most of that before they start charging.

I did get a little entertainment watching a few people who can't read get clobbered for the baggage penalty fee at the gate but it's all good entertainment.

2sides2everystory

Bob, too much Schadenfreude at the gate may not be good for your heart !

Have you noticed how 1b and 1a are different seat widths? Do you sit purposefully avoiding eye contact in 1b until someone arriving at the top of the steps dares to ask if a or c are free? If they then take a or c, do you then move from b to leave a gap in the middle occupied by a nonchalantly placed newspaper or do you sit tight until doors close before spreading out a bit?

I ask, because my own entertainment is in watching nifty pastmasters getting the seats they want and then waiting for the fattest passenger to come up the steps and to sit next to them. It is especially entertaining if the fat one is one of the last up the steps before the doors close and trebly so if their behind barely fits into the frame so you can be sure there will be bulky overlap with the hapless pastmaster

cactusdust

Our Ryanair differences aside, your mentioning of fat people in every other post about Ryanair are amusing 2sides2everystory.

Bob_the_Saver

2sides2everystory wrote: »

Bob, too much Schadenfreude at the gate may not be good for your heart !

Have you noticed how 1b and 1a are different seat widths? Do you sit purposefully avoiding eye contact in 1b until someone arriving at the top of the steps dares to ask if a or c are free? If they then take a or c, do you then move from b to leave a gap in the middle occupied by a nonchalantly placed newspaper or do you sit tight until doors close before spreading out a bit?

I ask, because my own entertainment is in watching nifty pastmasters getting the seats they want and then waiting for the fattest passenger to come up the steps and to sit next to them. It is especially entertaining if the fat one is one of the last up the steps before the doors close and trebly so if their behind barely fits into the frame so you can be sure there will be bulky overlap with the hapless pastmaster

I even thought of making my own reserved sign for the other seats but with the FA stood there I don't think I would get away with it.
Never mind I won't be paying extra for these seats so I guess it will be row 5ish when this comes in. and I'll miss all of the 'entertainment'.

2sides2everystory

cactusdust wrote: »

Our Ryanair differences aside, your mentioning of fat people in every other post about Ryanair are amusing 2sides2everystory.

Each to his own cactusdust

Perhaps it is partly because once the load factors become consistently high, the actual cost of passenger air transport is so much about balancing comfort levels and weight yet as yet I think, even MO'L has shied from talking about charging us per kilo of total body mass traveling including baggage.

Most of us can hide our bulk on a good day with XXXL clothing or more, but with aeroplane fuselages generally being a tight squeeze, it is perhaps the one time when the inconvenience of personal bulk all becomes a bit public.