Ryanair Reserved Seating

SaveTheEuro

Has anyone had experience of travelling on a Ryanair flight with reserved seating?

Ryanair are introducing reserved seating (in the first 2 rows and emergency exits) across the network next week after giving it a try on a few routes.

If some of the first 2 rows and emergency exit seats aren't pre-booked can anyone sit in them or do crew try to keep them empty?

antenna

Yes they do, and no you cant.

antenna

Then.....when everyone is seated, they offer them at a premium price to all the fools that are prepared to pay

SaveTheEuro

Thanks for that.

I wonder what happens when the flight is full but not all premium seats booked. Maybe the last to board would get the premium seats rather than the priority boarders?

antenna

SaveTheEuro wrote: »

Thanks for that.

I wonder what happens when the flight is full but not all premium seats booked. Maybe the last to board would get the premium seats rather than the priority boarders?

AS you must check-in on-line 4 hours before boarding,they know well in advance what seats to block off and what seats will be available to sell onboard,for example if only 5 seats remain onsold at 4 hours before departure,then,if not sold at the airport desk only 5 seats will remain reserved in the preferred areas....

SaveTheEuro

2sides2everystory wrote: »

I arrived over the wing via the rear steps on my latest flight to be faced with twelve "Reserved" photocopies.

My Ryanair flight today was two thirds full. It appeared nobody had paid for a reserved seat.

'Reserved" notices were on the premium seats and the crew made sure nobody sat in them. Meal trays were placed down to indicate they were out of bounds although, of course, the trays had to be put away before take off.

During the flight a couple of people attempted to sit in the emergency exit rows but were told to move, however passengers who relocated to row 2 were allowed to stay. The crew seemed delighted there were no passengers in row 1 because it gave them extra room to park the perfume trolley.

I sat just in front of an emergency exit row and had a whole luggage cabin at my disposal. The empty emergency exit rows also acted as a useful lay-by for people maneuvering past a trolley as they headed back and forth to the toilets.

pigeonpie

We got a flight at New Year on Ryanair and the cabin attendant just let us sit in the front row as he said all the priority boarders (ie no-one) had already got on. His female colleague didn't let someone else though but later relented as the flight was pretty full.
He was a nice lad; we'd done nothing ingratiating just said hello and happy new year to him as we got on as OH said 'oh can we sit here?' and he said yes, why not.
On flights out of Stansted it seems far less likely as quite a few people book priority boarding - or did when it was £3, at £10 I imagine there will be far fewer takers - but it seems up to the cabin crew to be sensible. Which imho many of them are.

On the outbound flight, some innocent next to me asked the cabin attendant if the food was free. She said ' no sir, you pay for everything. Even the air'.

SaveTheEuro

pigeonpie wrote: »

On the outbound flight, some innocent next to me asked the cabin attendant if the food was free. She said ' no sir, you pay for everything. Even the air'.

Slightly off topic, but.....the steward on my flight who was adamant nobody should sit in the emergency exit rows also tried the hard sell with food. I handed over €4 for a cup of tea costing €3 and he said he didn't have a euro change but would I like to have a bar of chocolate instead? If he'd offered the winning scratchcard he might have had a deal.

mad_rich

Ah, the old 'I don't have change' trick. Popular the world over. Just take the €4 back 'Don't worry. I can see you're rushed. I'll pay when you have some change".

Polly_Esther

2sides2everystory wrote: »

Blagged one of the overwing seats for nothing on my most recent flight - my sequence no was 161 and I reckon that was about the passenger total so still room to squash in all the plebs without using the "reserved seats". However, I noticed there were a lot of kids in the back of the boarding queue, and seeing the impending Chinese puzzle about to unfold (i.e. the "It's full but I need to sit with my kids" conundrum) I offered to free up a row for a family who looked a bit hassled

Cabin crew very discreet - "er yes, thank you for that Sir, ... so would you mind sitting in row 17 not row 16 as ... erm ... nod nod ... row 16 have paid" wink wink

Felt quite chuffed - that's a 50% success rate since the reserved seating malarkey started. I was so chuffed in fact that I then got suckered into the current scratchcard promotion of 12 cards for the ten euros I'd saved on the reserved seat I'd blagged ... the cabin crew announced it everso clearly and nicely and said that all the profit would go to children's charities so, feeling good about the world, I decided to believe it this time ... There I was, a whole overwing row to myself and a handful of scratchcards, but finding myself without a coin and the seatbelt sign on for turbulence I simply reached over and used a spare seatbelt buckle to do the scratching - luvvly jubbly

That was not before the excellent cabin crew chappie almost bust a gut after he offered to take my bag down from the bins so I could find the ten Euro note I knew I had in there somewhere - no sense paying ten quid when ten euros will do - I did say sorry about the ... um, heavy bag ... and he did say yes he had noticed ... Unfortunately the Ron Zapaca Centenario 23 had once more been an irresistible buy in duty free, and with mags and stuff well stuffed, my bag ended up at a rather overly respectable 14.5kg ... oops! :rotfl:

I started reading this post without having looked at the (user) name of the scribbler. At the beginning of the second sentence I realised that the scenario being described/the style of prose was exceedingly familiar and the thought entered my head that the (user) name may well begin '2sides'.

Lo and behold I was correct! How satisfying is that?

I haven't flown Ryanair in many a long year but am glad to read that their cabin crew appear still to be as capable and debonair as I recall them being many moons ago. More's the pity that they have wiped out so many of their routes that the likelihood of my sharing an (unpaid for) exit row with the poster have probably dwindled to virtually nil.

psychopathbabble

mad_rich wrote: »

Ah, the old 'I don't have change' trick. Popular the world over. Just take the €4 back 'Don't worry. I can see you're rushed. I'll pay when you have some change".

No trick, just ask for your change if the service is finished and if they have change, they will give it to you. Not sure if you noticed, crew are only human and can sometimes forget stuff.