Ryanair Reserved Seating

SaveTheEuro

2sides2everystory wrote: »

The secret to a free overwing exit callum9999 is to board about 20 from the back of the queue, and make your way to the centre of the plane where you need to establish eye contact with the cabin crew stationed there so you can volunteer without fuss. I find it is often easier to approach from the front unless you ahve already witnessed some log-jam with kids or babes in arms or similar and decide it is quicker to approach your target from the back

If you volunteer too early you may get told to wait in another seat and then get forgotten. If it is clear you are amongst the last on the plane then you are likely to be successful if any of the four overwing rows is empty.

Do be aware however that thetype of Ryanair regular that pays for those seats wuite often chooses to get on last not first, so you may still get turfed out if the row wasn't actually free ... the cabin crew don't seem to know which are booked and which are not unless someone shows them a reserved pass.

If you do a mock booking shortly before you fly you will see how many of the reserved seats are taken. I have a flight in a few day's time where all 21 have already been booked. So the chances of a free overwing exit for me are zero.

Bob_the_Saver

SaveTheEuro wrote: »

If you do a mock booking shortly before you fly you will see how many of the reserved seats are taken. I have a flight in a few day's time where all 21 have already been booked. So the chances of a free overwing exit for me are zero.

Hard luck, sorry to hear that but we all know how popular Ryanair are
these days.

callum9999

SaveTheEuro wrote: »

If you do a mock booking shortly before you fly you will see how many of the reserved seats are taken. I have a flight in a few day's time where all 21 have already been booked. So the chances of a free overwing exit for me are zero.

Ah thanks - I didn't consider that. I guess people are starting to pick up on the benefits of booking it now.

SaveTheEuro

We've booked seats 1a and 1c on a Ryanair flight next month.

If nobody reserves 1b that means an abundance of leg and arm room.

If the crew see what we're up to what do you think they'll do? Maybe ask the widest person on the plane to move to 1b?

jpsartre

SaveTheEuro wrote: »

If the crew see what we're up to what do you think they'll do?

Are you up to anything? I don't see anything wrong with booking 1A and 1C or any reason why the crew would care.

SaveTheEuro

jpsartre wrote: »

Are you up to anything? I don't see anything wrong with booking 1A and 1C or any reason why the crew would care.

Some airlines organise their reserved seating so that it's impossible for couples to leave a middle seat free between them. Ryanair aren't on top of that (yet).

You are right, the crew shouldn't care.

It's always fun on airlines with free seating to watch couples take an aisle and window seat and look nonchalant about later boarders assessing the merits of going for that middle seat or wandering further back the plane for something better.

stoneman

We always pay for the reserved seating when flying with RA. Actually something that is good value with them. As the seats are 3 abreast only once has someone ever paid to sit next to us so we get extra legroom and don't have to wonder if the village idiot is going to be joining us.
I just can't see how this is good business practice though, our last flight no one had purchased the 12 seats over the wing and we were the only 2 that had bought any of the 24 available in the front, that is 36 seats potentially unoccupied seats (note on some flights it is the first 4 rows others its the first 2 rows) with the resulting lost revenue as they have to leave them free in case anyone wants to purchase them.

Bob_the_Saver

stoneman wrote: »

We always pay for the reserved seating when flying with RA. Actually something that is good value with them. As the seats are 3 abreast no one has ever paid to sit next to us so we get extra legroom and don't have to wonder if the village idiot is going to be joining us.
I just can't see how this is good business practice though, our last flight no one had purchased the 12 seats over the wing and we were the only 2 that had bought any of the 24 available in the front, that is 36 seats potentially unoccupied seats with the resulting lost revenue as they have to leave them free in case anyone wants to purchase them.

HEY, leave me out of this

stoneman

callum9999 wrote: »

They, apparently, normally section off areas of the plane because of some sort of weight distribution condition Boeing have told them to do. Though I have no idea why it only seemingly affects some planes, some of the time!

And that is the biggest load of codswallop they come out with. A complete load of tosh. You have a 130 thousand pound aircraft producing an enormous amount of thrust and they try and tell you that a few extra pounds of weight will tip the plane. How do they know that there isn't luggage in the overhead bins as well. Laughable.
Actually a couple of flights ago someone had booked A/F and OH and I were in A D/E, After takeoff I asked the CC if we could move back to row B to give everyone more room (non of the other reserved seats had been booked) he said no because of the weight distribution issue. I weight 72KG and my wife is 53KG. It was all I could do to not be snarky with him. In our case it was probably so that the other pax didn't see people moving to those seats, which might have started a stampede, which is what he should have just said, instead of that load of baloney

jpsartre

stoneman wrote: »

It's only to give the CC more room

Unlikely since the front rows are rarely blocked off. Also, they usually don't mind if you move to a blocked off row when then plane is airborne and the seatbelt signs are switched off.