Flying with kids on Ryanair? From next month you MUST pay £4 for an allocated seat

Moto2

Kernow666 wrote: »

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

It's £4 each way, where does £48 come from

Alice_Walker

richardw wrote: »

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.

It's clear that you dislike Ryanair, but the more the thread goes on the more random your arguments become. What you describe would be even more of a problem without compulsory seat allocations.

richardw

Alice_Walker wrote: »

It's clear that you dislike Ryanair,......What you describe would be even more of a problem without compulsory seat allocations.

I don't, they get me to places and hotels others have never heard of.
Prior to seat allocations, families with children went on board first and took their seats, no problem.

michele-p

Personally I think this is quite a fair solution. Those with kids have said time and again they want to be next to their kids, and £4 isn't that much to guarantee it. Only 1 parent "needs" to be next to an under 12 year old.

If the whole family want to sit together, then why should they be cheaper than those of us with no children, if we choose to pre-book to sit together it's more than £4!

It seems like quite a good compromise to me!

We are off to Tenerife in Oct with a different airline, me, husband and 14 yo step daughter We have chosen not to pay extra to choose seats, at 14 she's more than old enough to sit by herself for 4 hours. In fact - here's hoping

fabforty

Seems fair enough to me, especially as their tickets are cheap to start with.

glider3560

Good news. As a regular Ryanair solo flyer, I'm fed up being asked to move (either from my paid seat or one I have deliberately checked in early to obtain) so that families can sit together because they've either been: a) too lazy to check in early and get seats together or b) too tight to pay for seats together

Becles

I agree with it.

I pay for my family to sit together. It's frustrating when I've paid the extra fee but see other families getting to sit where they want for free by stamping their feet and forcing others to move.

shaun_from_Africa

Moto2 wrote: »

It's £4 each way, where does £48 come from

I think that Kernow666 may be married to this woman:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/britains-most-shameless-mum-cheryl-6620148

ncrossland

Good move from Ryanair - last 3 out of 4 flights with them there have been parents who didn't pay to sit together kicking up a fuss.

One flight I had to look after and comfort a random child who was in floods of tears for the descent cos her ears were hurting, and her parents were sat at the back of the plane!!

holidaysforme

Great idea!