OK Ryanair, I’ll pay your blood money

sheramber

Pay cheap prices for Ryanair an accept you don't sit together.

Yes, other airlines seat people together but they cost more- now you see one of the reasons why.

Ryanair offer a choice of low fare or pay more.

Other airlines do not give you that choice which could matter of you were a single traveller.

814man

Here we go again, the usual MSE hate for RyanAir. Utterly bizarre of course and without any validity. As richardw notes RyanAir have opened up many parts of europe to cheap travel and enabled thousands to enjoy holidays and breaks at reasonable cost. Follow the simple rules and if you want to sit together pay some money to do so, as most airlines now also require.
This is MSE for goodness sake, please feel free to fly with other airlines, I always check and go with the cheapest, but dont demonise RyanAir for developing a winning business model based on cheap fares.

Stoke

Me and my mates use Ryanair all the time..... no issues particularly. We flew to Spain and back earlier this year for the cost of a normal night out. No we don't sit together, which is a bit naff, but we get to travel for cheap and we get plenty of time to annoy each other when we're on the ground.

If you have kids etc then perhaps an alternative is better..... but the hate for Ryanair because people don't like their business model is kind of weird.

Sea_Shell

I guess what really gets people annoyed is RA appear to deliberately split people up, when if they just allocated seats on a row by row basis as people checked in most people would be closer.
But then people wouldn't feel forced to pay extra!!

NoodleDoodleMan

Were you separated on a flight to Dublin ?

We've only flown once there, wasn't Ryanair, but by the time we took off in the UK it was nearly time to land in Ireland.

stoneman

NoodleDoodleMan wrote: »

Were you separated on a flight to Dublin ?

We've only flown once there, wasn't Ryanair, but by the time we took off in the UK it was nearly time to land in Ireland.

Of course I forgot, nothing has ever happened during take off and landing. :doh:

NoodleDoodleMan

Of course I forgot, nothing has ever happened during take off and landing.

I thought your complaint was about being seated apart ?


How is that an issue on a very short haul flight ?

yellowmug

I think what particularly gets people's back up, as well as seeing that groups are deliberately split up, is that you shouldn't have to pay extra for something that makes everyone safer. That's just not a frill, it's an essential. Ryanair's policy (and that of others) endangers everyone, it's not about not getting a free sandwich.

If split up from my children I would absolutely go back for them in an evacuation, whatever I was instructed to do. There's absolutely no way I'd get off the plane knowing they were inside. It's selfish, but driven by biology/evolution (I'm sure parents not related by blood would have the same instinct, don't get me wrong - it's the overall parent-child relationship)

I wouldn't go back for my husband, though, and I wouldn't expect him to go back for me. I wouldn't mind being separated from him on a short flight, but I can see that nervous flyers would see it differently.

giraffe69

I don't understand why anyone would fly with Ryanair.

I don't much like them but for some destinations they are the only remotely sensible choice. Mind you I couldn't get that excited at sitting together and if I were I'd pay.

NoodleDoodleMan

Nobody should have to pay extra to sit together.

Unreserved seats should be available for immediate selection when the flight reservation is made and paid for - the simple first come, first served basis.

Only seats that should be available for additional charge are extra legroom ones.