Priority boarding for ryan air

Sandalwoman

Thanks for all your views.

Decision time - very cheap flight for the 4 of us to Granada with Ryan Air and risk hassle, or back to searching for another airline that won't cost the earth in April.

ynot2005

priority boarding is just complete nonsense, ryanair block rows of seats off anyway..just wait until you can move about and then go and sit in one of those blocked off rows

if you must have a "good seat"..whatever that is

lets face it they are all the same, a bit of extra legroom is nothing to worry about

as gabriel says its just a flying bus and you dont get all the nonsense of pushing and shoving on a national express coach do you

i dont blame ryanair for one minute with priority baording...if the public are quite frankly stupid enough to pay more to get a "good seat" then they deserved to be ripped off

its just the same in the january sales...people desperate to get their hands on something incase someone else gets it first.

get on the plane last and then sit in a blocked off row after take off...forget about "good seats"...you didnt on the airport bus did you!

zappahey

patricia1066 wrote:

This is a procedure that could be implemented by Ryanair to avoid the problem - let PB passengers board. Allow families to sit together while waiitng for boarding - then call them up before letting on the other passengers.

The procedure we've chosen is to no longer travel with Ryanair.

Much as I like their prices, I'm no longer content to be treated like a piece of livestock. In addition they've just had too many safety scares in recent times. I've become fairly convinced that it's only a matter of time until their luck runs out.

moonrakerz

gabriel wrote:

Non-allocated seats is weirdly a process optimization.

Which just goes to show that Ryanair is run solely for the benefit of the Company not its passengers !

Do you work for them, using "business babble" like that ! :rotfl:

herman2811

I wouldn't bother paying for Priority boarding... it seems to be pot luck whether they enforce it or not.

As previous posters said.... it's simply a money making idea!

alared

Sandalwoman wrote:

Thanks for all your views.

Decision time - very cheap flight for the 4 of us to Granada with Ryan Air and risk hassle, or back to searching for another airline that won't cost the earth in April.

Get your very cheap flight with them but don`t pay for PB,afterall everyone`s in the same "boat".

alared

Flew with Ryanair over the weekend and they do seem to have improved their boarding procedure.
At the gate it is clearly marked, priority boarding on one side and all other passengers,including children, on the other side.
On top of that an announcement was made stating this.

Mind you it did not stop a stupid stampede to form a queue on the return part of my journey from Spain.
We were all sat in final departures when about five girls arrived and decided to stand at the gate,this caused nearly everyone to suddenly stand up and form a queue.
So you had the silly spectacle of about 100 people standing in a queue at the gate ready to board when in fact the incoming aircraft had not even arrived yet and didn`t do so far another 20 minutes.

Beate

Quite frankly, priority boarding doesn't work. I have always been at the airport early to be one of the first 65, because they used to let children and parents in first, then the first 65, then the rest. Now there are just two categories anymore: priority boarders and the also ran. They are trying to get the priority boarders in first, but they don't wait until they are seated, so anyone immediately after them can still overtake (which I have no qualms doing). The reason they don't wait until they are seated is the limited time they have for getting the plane full and ready to depart. And as long as my favourite seats are still available, which they always are (emergency exit rows, lots of legroom and no kids allowed) then I am not going to pay extra for the privilege of a seat.