MSE News: 'Family tax': Dad's outrage as Ryanair tries to seat 3yo away from family

zagfles

jd87 wrote: »

I don't have children. I want cheap flights. I'm willing to risk not being sat near whoever I'm travelling with if it means I can save money.

Why should I have to subsidise people who choose to fly with children?

Yeah it's a disgrace all this cross-subsidy. As everyone knows, more weight = more fuel = more cost. Look at what they charge for excess baggage weight!

About time they applied the same to passenger weight! Why should a 20Kg 3 year old subsidise a 80Kg adult? Yeah - charge passengers per kg too, stop the subsidy!

Hope Molly and Stelios are reading.

KTF

zagfles wrote: »

Why should a 20Kg 3 year old subsidise a 80Kg adult?

The airlines work off averages.

Pincher

If we all paid £200 for a return flight, I have no doubt they will try to seat people together. For a group of four, that's about £500 extra, worth it to sit together for two hours?

zagfles

KTF wrote: »

The airlines work off averages.

Well obviously but the PP was whinging about cross subsidy.

Murphybear

I travelled a lot by air in the 1970s/1980s. Never once was I not allocated a seat next to /near all my travelling companions. No extras payable. Have things changed so much? I haven't used Easyjet or Ryanair, not sure I want to

problemcashback

Sadly to many airlines like this, whilst away with work we tagged on a holiday at the end and my family flew out to meet us, Delta put my two kids 8 and 11 in a row with someone on the middle of them and my wife in a row two rows in front. These companies know the age of the kids and who is on the booking and it's not rocket science to be able to sit a family together. Even a family of 4 in a 4 seat middle section should be allocated those seats.

problemcashback

KTF wrote: »

The airlines work off averages.

Funny thing is the kids tickets are often quite close to the price of an adult ticket. On an Amsterdam leg of a flight from the U.S. A snooty air steward told me on an near empty plane that he would try to get food for my 2 year old as it's not included in the price of having him on our lap, told him it better be as I paid £700, £100 less than my flight so he could have a seat and was only on the lap for take off!

Helenabaker

I'm shocked at a 3 yr old having to sit alone, we've just been to Tenerife with Ryanair and on the return flight the pilot wouldn't leave Tenerife until some passengers had swapped seats, he said it was illegal for a child to sit alone. This once happened to us when we flew with Thomson, my 2 yr old was sat across the isle from me.

kbr61263

Ryanair's statement, " "Ryanair endeavours to seat travelling companions and families together," is just a complete lie, I have had this issue a number of times, with my youngest child and severely disabled step-daughter sat away from a large party when checking in early on a half full flight, They did move us together, perhaps because we asked about leaving a bag with the cabin staff to help them deal with my step-daughter who is doubly incontinent, and was sitting 10 rows (empty at the time we boooked) away from the rest of us.

paugeo

Is anyone really surprised but what this disgusting airline does? They are lower than the low and surely must be the worlds worst airline??!