Just out of curiosity
Was flying Ryanair Prestwick to Riga and back at the weekend. Before leaving on Fri I checked to see if the return flight (monday night) went up in price from the £ 0.01 I had paid.
Turned out it showed as fully booked.
Monday night the flight was far from fully booked. 6 rows at the front and 5 at the back were blocked off. Thats 66 seats. And not every seat in the middle section was taken.
Why do they do that ? It looked as if the flight was "capped" to about 100 pax.
Only thought I came up with was, given the cost of fuel in Latvia, they use the opportunity to fill the tanks up as much as they can, hence the limitation on seats for W&B reasons.
Did I guess right ? Nice thought if something goes wrong during landing
