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Flyboy152

callum9999 wrote: »

Ryanair doesn't overbook flights so the number of tickets sold can't exceed the number of seats available. They don't offer standby seats either - if you don't turn up for the flight, your seat stays empty.

I am not sure you quite understood my post. If the number of passengers turning up to get on the flight is fewer than those who have bought tickets, normal airlines would have offered the vacant seats as stand-bys. I did not write that the number of people turning up at check-in exceed the number seats on the aeroplane.

What exactly are they relying on these "three week out of date" check-in details for? All the in-flight calculations etc. are done on the number of people who go through the door and onto the aircraft - I can't think of any reason at all why they would need a more accurate on-the-day number (and again, you can easily check-in at the airport desk and never get on the flight as well).

In the past aircraft are prepared based on the number of people who go through check-in at the airport. The number of meals, for example, but most importantly the amount of fuel. The more fuel the aircraft carries the less efficient it becomes. If RyanUnfair are not calculating the number of passengers on board until they walk through the doors of the aeroplane; that would be rather silly. It is too late to drain the fuel at that point.