Ryanair Reserved Seating

stoneman

jpsartre wrote: »

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.

Yes they do, RA will not allow you to move into a reserved blocked off seat. And yes the front rows are frequently blocked off.
You are just making things up for what reason?

callum9999

stoneman wrote: »

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

Well I just looked again and the explanation people give independently of Ryanair is that the weight distribution within the cabin DOES have an affect on the amount of fuel the plane has to use. It's likely it's a minimal affect of course, but this is Ryanair!

And other airlines do it as well, it's not JUST Ryanair - you often just don't notice it because they have assigned seating, so they simply don't assign people to those seats as opposed to physically blocking them.

Presumably they blame Boeing because (again, just apparently - I'm no aircraft expert!) the 737 is particularly sensitive to this problem, so them working with Boeing to reduce it in the future does make sense.

jpsartre

stoneman wrote: »

Yes they do, RA will not allow you to move into a reserved blocked off seat.

I have done so myself and have seen others do the same. I was specifically told to wait until the plane was airborne.

stoneman wrote: »

And yes the front rows are frequently blocked off.

I've used Ryanair regularly for more than a decade now and I've only ever been on one Ryanair flight where the front rows were blocked off and that was a half empty flight.

stoneman

jpsartre wrote: »

I have done so myself and have seen others do the same. I was specifically told to wait until the plane was airborne.



I've used Ryanair regularly for more than a decade now and I've only ever been on one Ryanair flight where the front rows were blocked off and that was a half empty flight.

We shall agree to disagree then because even though they are not my ideal travel choice I have used them enough to have seen otherwise;)

jpsartre

Whatever used to be the case, for sure the front rows won't be blocked off anymore since they are selling those seats at a premium.

Bob_the_Saver

jpsartre wrote: »

Whatever used to be the case, for sure the front rows won't be blocked off anymore since they are selling those seats at a premium.

Just a few rows behind.

Bob_the_Saver

Bob_the_Saver wrote: »

Just a few rows behind.

Since I sadly can't get MY seat any more without paying extra (which I won't) I sit as near the front as possible and stare at any small children who try to sit near - that gets rid of them.

jpsartre

Bob_the_Saver wrote: »

Just a few rows behind.

Oh yeah, those are usually blocked off unless it's a full flight. But the argument was that it was to give more space to cabin crew which doesn't really hold water if there are people sitting in rows 1 +2.

I personally don't like the new reserved seat system either. I think I can count on two fingers the number of times I didn't get a front row seat in the old system and one of them was the flight where the front row was blocked off that I mentioned earlier. And that was even without ever purchasing priority boarding.

Bob_the_Saver

jpsartre wrote: »

Oh yeah, those are usually blocked off unless it's a full flight. But the argument was that it was to give more space to cabin crew which doesn't really hold water if there are people sitting in rows 1 +2.

I personally don't like the new reserved seat system either. I think I can count on two fingers the number of times I didn't get a front row seat in the old system and one of them was the flight where the front row was blocked off that I mentioned earlier. And that was even without ever purchasing priority boarding.

Me too ............

HelenaHandcart

There is an explanation and discussion WRT seat blocking on the PPRUNE forum: http://www.pprune.org/passengers-slf-self-loading-freight/366421-ryanair-weight-balance-issues.html