Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
I'm guessing that, given your location, you haven't flown EasyJet or Ryanair much, if at all. What you have described is SOP for those carriers.
You guess correctly, even though I have been within their sphere of influence: BA and Virgin strike me as bad enough. As a matter of interest, with the lowest cost of lo-cos, does it make the boarding experience better? Of course, there's the difference between Manchester in January and Canberra in, say, January.