Ryanair's new 7-day check-in rules

jpsartre

NFH wrote: »

So why not charge at least £49 then so that the charges are honest and transparent rather than relying on almost-compulsory charges that are disguised as being optional?

If they did, the same people complaining about paying for seats would be in here complaining that Ryanair are now too expensive.

Calling the charge "almost-compulsary" is also quite a stretch considering the many passengers that are away for less than 7 days and/or have easy access to printing facilities.

rustyboy21

NFH wrote: »

Is that just your theory or is that what has been happening in practice since Ryanair introduced this policy?

Of course the problem with option 2 is that it can be difficult to achieve for the same reasons that gave rise to this thread, i.e. how to print a boarding pass while away from home on the day of the flight.

It is based on what has been quoted by other people on other forums similar to this and what another UK airline states on their booking procedure, when you try to avoid paying for seat allocation.


They won't put you in the best seats available, whilst there is still a chance that some people will go on and pay for better seats. No One can give you the answer as of yet, as it has only been going for a few days and the passengers who have gone through it, may still be away on holiday. But, there have been a number of posters elsewhere, who have said they have been allocated middle seats towards the back of the plane, so it would seem that window seats will be hard to get hold of. If it is anything like Jet2, unless the flight is totally full, they will not allocate extra legroom seats at all and try and sell them on board during the flight.


Cannot be any clearer than that, you take the chance and try your luck, as they say. The only way you are in any chance of a window seat, will be if you pay for it.

[Deleted User]

Personally I couldn't give a toss where I sit on Ryanair - their journeys are so short that in the grand scheme of things it barely registers.

Likewise I never purchase anything on board but instead amuse myself at all the poor saps who jumped through hoops to get a cheap promotional flight then spend what they saved on a ham and cheeese toasty and a can of beer.

It genuinly amazes me that people will sit in an airport and not avail of all the reasonably-priced sandwiches and drinks yet the moment they get on a plane they're consumed with hunger and thirst.

And this is on a flight that usually lasts less than an hour.

I've never paid for priority seating either - why pay to get on a plane first to sit and wait for all the others who haven't ? Bizarre.

And wanting to sit next to a window ? I haven't done that since I was 12.

But the best laugh of all is the large number of times I've got on the plane last and been asked by the FAs to sit in the emergency row extra-legroom seats next to the poor saps who paid to do that.

How I chortle. In fact I'm smiling right now at the memory.

zaksmum

rustyboy21 wrote: »

It is a money saving site, not a moan saving site. You have been aware of the rules since at least Nov last year. You are moaning that it is unfair, but the vast majority of people will have no real issue with the system, in fact most would see it as a plus, you won't have the aggro of trying to get 2-3 seats together now, it is all done in advance.


I am just trying to show you the futility of your argument, it is so minor , compared with things going on in this world at present. It has been known what they are doing now for ages, why all the sudden soapboxing?


If you haven't paid £4 for a hot drink anywhere, you have led a very sheltered life, not going to concerts/gigs/exhibitions/museums etc. £4 is about the right price, where you are held 'Captive' for a length of time and want a drink. It si around £2.50 for a bottle of water. There's a point, why aren't you moaning that you cannot bring a bottle of water through security and have to pay a lot more if you want to take one on board? or are you a Telegraph buyer, who gets their water free when buying it at the airport.


You must be from down South, as us from up north want to enjoy our holidays, no matter what the cost is, unlike southerners, who like to come back with the same amount of money as they went with ! That is a well known fact amongst airline staff. They make more on Northern flights than Southern.

No mate, not from down south. A scouser born and bred:)

rustyboy21

zaksmum wrote: »

No mate, not from down south. A scouser born and bred:)

Wow that's strange, a money saving scouser. Spend all your money on self tan and designer gear? ( That 's a joke btw) Not far from Liverpool myself.

rustyboy21

Although I have been arguing the point of their new rules, I did find this before, which I thought was quite funny and apt at the moment.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id-zzOGnN6A

zaksmum

rustyboy21 wrote: »

Wow that's strange, a money saving scouser. Spend all your money on self tan and designer gear? ( That 's a joke btw) Not far from Liverpool myself.

Nothing at all strange about a money saving scouser!

There are loads of us here. Some of us can even read and write:)

CommitedToChange

rustyboy21 wrote: »

The vast amount of people, who pay for their seats, will go for a window seat, so the argument is immaterial, there won't/shouldn't be any left anyway. But lets say the flight was only 1/4 full and only a 1/4 of them had prebooked seats. Then the likelihood( if you look at other airlines systems and comments on other forums) is that you will be allocated middle seats from the back moving forward as they fil up. So using your theory, leaving it to the last minute, will give you a slightly better chance of getting a window seat, towards the front of the plane, but that is a suggestion. There will also be the issue of loading the plane to obtain correct take off balance.


Put it this way, one Jet2 flight we were on a few years back, I booked emergency exit seats on the wing, booking B&C, leaving A open. The flight took off and my OH moved into A when the seat belt sign went off, as did other couple in C&D, E being empty on their side. Both were severely told to move back to their booked seats, other passengers would complain if they were allowed to move, the other couple complained quite a bit and were threatened with Police at destination. This I believe is normal practice with Jet2 as they like the passenger manifest to stay the same seating order. They were still selling extra legroom seats as we boarded.


What is to stop Ryanair doing the same?

This makes sense

I checked in online just after midnight as soon as I could for my flight on Weds - and I got allocated a middle seat.

NFH

Deleted_User wrote: »

It genuinly amazes me that people will sit in an airport and not avail of all the reasonably-priced sandwiches and drinks yet the moment they get on a plane they're consumed with hunger and thirst.

The best place for this is the No 1 Lounge at STN Gate 49. It is effectively the "Ryanair lounge" because it only serves gates for Ryanair flights. They will make sandwiches for you to take on the plane and give you cans of soft drinks to take away too. You can't take away booze to drink on the flight because the booze is only waiter service and there are laws against drinking your own booze on commercial aircraft anyway. You get all this for free if you have Priority Pass as well as fast track security at STN.

Nodding_Donkey

rustyboy21 wrote: »

There is a little thing called technology which is involved here. It isn't a case of just nipping down to Maplins to buy the required kit and plugging it in. It will cost many 1000's to set up, synchronise into their existing system, change of software, training , bug solving etc.


He has openly admitted that the website is crap, perhaps the system they are using is not set up for mobile boarding passes as it is and needs upgrading.

Not true I'm afraid, the hardware and software is already in place, other airlines use it. If you store a boarding card on your phone the airport scanners will pick up the barcode quite happily, it's Ryanair themselves who won't have it. They make a fortune every day from people that forget to print or lose paper boarding cards.