Flying with kids on Ryanair? From next month you MUST pay £4 for an allocated seat 4 August 2016 at 5:05PM in Overseas holidays & travel planning 28 replies 3.6K views

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From next month Ryanair is forcing passengers with travelling young children to pay a £4 seat reservation fee...

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Kernow666

great that's an extra £48 each way the wife has to fork out

Redknapps_Dog

Fair enough. I'd also pay to be allocated a seat away from kids too.

Moto2

All those with kids should boycott Ryanair, no really

Redknapps_Dog

Wonderful, child free flights !!!

DynasticDux

Child Free flights? -- Yea, I will go with that

richardw

Simple answer is not to sell tickets to an adult with a child who can't be sat together on the flight. Update your software to do that, too expensive ? Tough.

soolin

I think this is a case of 'be careful what you wish for'. We have had many threads on here with parents complaining about being expected to sit apart from their children and also from people who have been asked to move to accommodate families. By insisting that parents pay a non optional fee everyone will be happy , parents can be guaranteed to have at least one parent by the child, and those people who do book seats in advance will know they won't now be asked to move.

soolin

richardw wrote: »

Simple answer is not to sell tickets to an adult with a child who can't be sat together on the flight. Update your software to do that, too expensive ? Tough.

That is effectively what they have done, booking a child ticket will now trigger the automatic booking of a seat at a cost for the accompanying adult.

richardw

But if you have too many adult and child parties and not enough unallocated adults you'll get moaning about adult and child separations across the aisle and one behind the other allocations.

Moto2

Best just to have the kids stay at home, better all round for everyone