Ryanair sits hen party in FIFTEEN separate rows as outrage over seating policy grows

Pollycat

welshmoneylover wrote: »

I must be getting on, but I find hens on planes and holidays more irritating than a grizzly child �� bawling its head off lol

I must be getting on too.

I feel the same about them (and stags) coming into our local pub with their sashes, tutus, balloons etc.

Give me a bawling child any day, at least it's a single voice instead of 15 women all talking (shouting) at the same time with nobody listening.

scd3scd4

This new policy is petty. We know that Ryanair charge to pay to reserve seats, as do most airlines. But now deliberately splitting people up who haven't paid is a very cynical method of driving extra revenue.

Yep thats sort of how I saw it. Deliberately punish them that dont pay. I just don't believe it was random. Why would the computer pick the middle seat rather than the aisle or window. This makes the seats either side less attractive. No system would do that. It hurts the business in my view.

That said I always pay to sit with the wife and boy but if I was not to pay then not getting to sit together should be unlucky not a punishment.

Ohh and is this the same people who wanted to charge for using the toilet?........I suppose the same people see no harm in that either.

Pollycat

scd3scd4 wrote: »

Yep thats sort of how I saw it. Deliberately punish them that dont pay. I just don't believe it was random. Why would the computer pick the middle seat rather than the aisle or window. This makes the sits either side less attractive. No system would do that. It hurts the business in my view.

That said I always pay to sit with the wife and boy but if I was not to pay then not getting to sit together should be unlucky not a punishment.

Ohh and is this the same people who wanted to charge for using the toilet?........I suppose the same people see no harm in that either.

Personally, I took that 'idea' in the same way as this guy:

To charge to pee, or not to charge to pee, is the latest user-friendly initiative being worried over by the concerned management of Ryanair. According to Michael O'Leary, the CEO, levying a fee of a quid to use an aircraft lavatory while in flight is perfectly reasonable and possible. A company spokesman took pains to assure the worried public: "Maybe O'Leary was just taking the p---." All in all, it was another good day's work, Ryanair style: bash the customer, get a free namecheck, be a bit crude, have a good laugh. It is such a lark, running a multi-million-pound customer-dependent business.

8 years on - are Ryanair charging passengers to use the toilet?
Thought not.
Nice bit of free publicity at the time though. :whistle:

buglawton

Pollycat wrote: »

Where have they changed their policy?
Ryanair previously charged for selecting seats.
Ryanair are still charging for selecting seats.
No change in policy there.
Ryanair have changed the way they allocate seats to people who won't pay for seat selection.
Did you expect a personal email from Mr O'Leary?

If you don't pay to select seats, you should not expect to be sat together.
Previously, people chanced it and hoped for the best.
Exactly the same as Ms Vickers did.

No, Ryanair used to seat couples and probably small groups in a random location but at least together by default. Now they get seated apart - far apart - by default.

IAmWales

buglawton wrote: »

No, Ryanair used to seat couples and probably small groups in a random location but at least together by default. Now they get seated apart - far apart - by default.

But their policy remains the same - if you want to guarantee being seated together then you must pay.

I can't recall the policy ever saying "we'll try to sit you together if we can".

buglawton

The policy wasn't to say it, but to do it.

jpsartre

IAmWales wrote: »

I can't recall the policy ever saying "we'll try to sit you together if we can".

It basically did say that at one point. The policy's definitely changed, both with respect to how it's written and how it's enforced.

scd3scd4

8 years on - are Ryanair charging passengers to use the toilet?
Thought not.
Nice bit of free publicity at the time though.

Maybe and then maybe not and it was just a step too far and they are trying a double bluff. :whistle:
Hardly impartial coming from the same office. Either way I dont really care as I pay. Yet I just don't swallow it was an accident to sit people in the middle breaking up a set of seats denying two seats together. Whatever bright spark thought that up did more harm than good.

Frozen_up_north

We fly to Spain several times a year, always with Ryanair and we never pay to allocate a seat. We put the money saved by not paying for allocated seats towards a meal out.

We have never had an issue with Ryanair, only with some of the obnoxious hen and stag party travellers. One group had slogans on their t-shirts that would get them arrested in many countries, what a bad advert for the UK.

Pollycat

scd3scd4 wrote: »

Maybe and then maybe not and it was just a step too far and they are trying a double bluff. :whistle:
Hardly impartial coming from the same office. Either way I dont really care as I pay. Yet I just don't swallow it was an accident to sit people in the middle breaking up a set of seats denying two seats together. Whatever bright spark thought that up did more harm than good.

"Trying a double bluff"?
It was over 8 years ago!

Whether it's an accident or not an accident, the fact is that passengers are totally at liberty to choose to pay to sit together.
Or to not pay.

It remains to be seen whether the bright spark's idea 'did more harm than good'.
Personally, I'll leave Michael O'Leary to worry about his own profits that may or may not be damaged by his business decisions.

Frozen_up_north wrote: »

We fly to Spain several times a year, always with Ryanair and we never pay to allocate a seat. We put the money saved by not paying for allocated seats towards a meal out.

We have never had an issue with Ryanair, only with some of the obnoxious hen and stag party travellers. One group had slogans on their t-shirts that would get them arrested in many countries, what a bad advert for the UK.

You may find that you are not sat together next time you fly.
If that doesn't bother you, fine.
If it does, maybe have a rethink about paying.