Seating small children - Ryanair
Mrs 25F took the smalls (aged 4 & 5) off to see the in-laws a few weeks back.
Ryanair, as we probably all know, do not prioritise boarding for families with small children, despite it being in everyone's best interests that they can get on first and get a row near the back and near the toilets - and allow subsequent boarders the option of avoiding them, if possible.
On this trip, Mrs 25F ended up in an aisle seat (D), with the kids across the aisle (B & C). I am amazed that the occupant of seat A did not offer to swap; but I am also amazed that the crew did not arrange it such that the 25Fs had a row, so that Mrs 25F could sit between the two smalls.
Surely, for safety reasons, the adult should be allowed, or encouraged, or enforced, to sit between the two small children, so as to make sure that seatbelts are fastened, etc.?