Ryanair's new 7-day check-in rules

jpsartre

Nodding_Donkey wrote: »

Not true I'm afraid, the hardware and software is already in place, other airlines use it.

Of course the technology is there but it won't come for free and if Ryanair were to spend money on it they would either need to raise their prices or bank on it bringing in more customers. I doubt the latter would happen today, as I'm sure they do. Once electronic BP's become more prevalent and people start to expect it that may change.

NFH

Unusually I'm flying on Ryanair soon because the route is served only by Ryanair and another budget airline with a less convenient flight time. I can now answer my question above about random seat allocation, or at least give some insight.

I had been periodically watching the available seats since check-in opened, and when the 7-day window opened I noticed that Ryanair appeared to be filling up the seats row-by-row, starting from row 18 going back and also from row 15 going forward; rows 16 and 17 are emergency exit rows. In each row, they seem to allocate seats progressively from A to F or from F to A. I noticed that row 19 had been filled from A to E, leaving 19F (window seat) free, so I took a chance and selected the free random seat allocation in the hope of being allocated 19F, and it worked. When my boarding pass was displayed, I had seat 19F. Rows 20 to 33 were totally empty and a number of window seats near the front had been taken presumably by surcharge payers.

catwoman73

I've checked in today for a day trip I'm doing for work next week, letting them select 'randomly'. I have an A and an F, which I think are both window seats?

jpsartre

NFH wrote: »

Unusually I'm flying on Ryanair soon because the route is served only by Ryanair and another budget airline with a less convenient flight time.

I guess an inconvenient flight time is enough to make anyone use Ryanair, even somone who thinks they break the law on a regular basis

Gatser

jm2926 wrote: »

Let's face it Ryanair couldn't care less about passenger convenience, which I why I will never use them again



No, but it's £/€5 per person per flight to select a seat which extends check in to 30 days.

Do you know if we could just pay for a seat on the return flight, then do online check in + boarding cards for both flights, 7 days before departure flight?

rustyboy21

We are not into the main holiday period yet, so you may have just struck lucky, we will have to wait on seeing what they do in July-Sept period, that will be the test.


Does look like they are allocating from middle back though. They may leave some rows empty too, if the flight is not full, to balance the plane out.


I do hope people get the seats they want with not paying, but it is the chance you take, not paying for your preferred seats, if you are that fussed over them, or sitting together. If they are doing it as you said, in your case, if you were with your partner, you would have been in 19f and your partner in 20a. A lot of people won't like that

rustyboy21

Gatser wrote: »

Do you know if we could just pay for a seat on the return flight, then do online check in + boarding cards for both flights, 7 days before departure flight?

Someone has posted about that earlier in this thread. Don't know if it would work, but worth a try.

Gatser

aaroncaz wrote: »

Ok so just been reading this quickly.... am flying with them in July, 10 days me and my son...... check in going will be ok, printing etc... but unless I book allocated seats for the return journey then I will be unable to print off return flight boarding pass until 7 days until we fly home? I really do not not want to be hassled with finding a printer when we areaway, so it looks like paying for allocated seats on the way home, at £10?

Assuming we can just pay for the RETURN seats?
Anyone tried this?
thanks....

Gatser

MiserlyMartin wrote: »

I've had to pay the £10 because I know that finding a place which will have a PC linked to a computer is going to be difficult.

Did you just pay for the RETURN seat?
thanks

zaksmum

Gatser wrote: »

Did you just pay for the RETURN seat?
thanks

I'd like to know if this is possible too.