Originally Posted by
Hotel Tango
Not an RYR flyer however, arguably, if you get on a bus or a train there's no guarantee you will sit together. If you choose to fly for peanuts on a bus with wings why should it be any different?
Yes, but the bus and train companies don't usually make a separate charge for choosing a seat, nor go out of their way to ensure that those not forking out the seat fee are never* going to get adjacent seats.
I watched last night's interview with Kenny Jacobs, where he was disingenuous to say the least.
*According to the chap who reverse-engineered Ryanair's previous seating algorithm, the new version allocates every middle seat (in the free seating rows) first, then when all of those are allocated it's the aisle seats and finally the window seats.
That matches exactly Watchdog's findings (Jacobs' response that a sample of 4 flights x 4 people wasn't representative is laughable) and almost guarantees that two or more people travelling together will never get adjacent seats without paying.