New First Class in Ryanair
 

heard the latest from Ryanair???

within four weeks, they intend to charge an extra 15 euro if you wish to sit on any of the emergency exit rows (more leg room).


You heard it here first......

Any people in Ryanair Management wish to comment, and I thought you guys couldnt get any more greedy!!!


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So what happens if you don't want to sit there and flight is full. Do they still charge you?

You get the toilet seat.... which I'm sure when they start charging for that, it will only be E1 plus tax

surprised they didn't do it earlier...

KLM does it on long haul flights too!

Flew NRN-VLC on RYR not long ago and had the pleasure to sit in an emergency-exit row. Plenty of room and worth the 15 euros when on a very early flight and want to sleep.

Virgin also do it and depending on the route it can be £50 extra (1 way) for an exit row seat.

Is that on top of the 10 euro you pay for the flight?





:rolleyes:

Ryanair don't do seat allocation (?) so how will they be able to ensure you get your extra leg room seat you have paid for? How will it work if you do on line check in?

I'm doing STN-NYO in a few weeks (paxing, of course) and definately do not want a "normal" seat. I shall be mighty upset if I can't get an overwing or row 1.

How much per sheet of toilet paper?

I hear the charge will be introduced by next tuesday

whats left to charge for ,??? toilets, seats, seat belts,steps to plane, oxygen?????? oh yeah toilet paper forgot that:ugh::ugh::ugh:

:ugh: Typical Ryanair.. I wouldn't be supprised if coin slots are installed to release the seatbelt. Then the tray table, ohhh the list is endless.

It's a good job I'm not actually old enough to sit in emergency exit rows, yet, why does one have to be 18 to occupy such a seat on Ryanair? - Yet I'm old enough to fly on my own, in a light aircraft and as such operate the door?

Jet2 charge for this as well. But I still think FR sucks.

So how do they make sure everyone who pays this is an ABP??? Or don't they bother with niceties like that?

they intend to charge an extra 15 euro if you wish to sit on any of the emergency exit rows (more leg room).

I wish all airlines would do that! I'm tall and I would willingly pay a bit extra to be able to fit in the seats.

Flying long-haul in economy is pretty desperate for me and I would willingly pay extra for a bit of extra leg room.

The charter airlines and some scheduled carriers have been doing it for years. You want more comfort you pay for it. 15 euros is far less than I've seen other airlines charge for the 'privilege'.

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Surprised none of the loco's have started charging for priority exiting.

"For only 15 euros more, you can be among the first to leave the plane. This will ensure a prime standing position around the baggage carousel or if you travel with hand baggage only will help you get to the front of the huge queue of taxis, thus saving milliseconds of your valuable time" :rolleyes:

But Ryanair, flew them once, never again, doesn't do seat allocation and insist upon strict 25 minute turnrounds or heads will roll.

So what happens if, having paid my EUR15, and having vacated the regional airfield bar at the last minute, I am the last to board and a family of 3 have occupied my exit row/seat and the flight is full?

Oh dear, we have to start playing musical 'non reclining' chairs and all this in a 25 minute turnround to be subsequently served with stale sandwiches and warm beer.

And all for a few Euro's per rotation, I wonder why I stick with 'recognised' carriers :)

For those who are interested here is the seatplan

http://www.eurocypria.com/main/data/articles/737.gif

Is the extra legroom in rows 15-16 really worth 15 EUR?

ADAM C, The Irish Airline Authority state you have to be 18 to sit in an emergancy exit seat.

I dont see what the fuss is about this, Bmibaby all ready do it as others mentioned on here, it makes good sense to me always thought Ryanair were missing a trick here, Im guessing that it will come with priorty boarding even better would be allocated seating but i doubt that

I agree, but now they're selling all those priority boarding tickets, I don't think they'll be giving that little money spinner up!

Clickair have also joined in this caper, but they have gone several stages further and created three seating classes, aisle seats are the new business class, emergency exits appear to be business plus while the front rows nearest the exit are obviously first class with three stars! Oh and bags are now €5 a pop! You can however choose your seat on line.

They will probably call the pre-booked seating pax forward first, or put the tray tables down at the emerg exits.

Don't know if this will make much difference as the sequenced and online checkin boarding is totally ignored by the ground crew.

Surprised it's taken Ryanair so long to be honest.

I should think they just need to make an announcement before boarding or put a card on the affected seats that say "€15 extra for each of these exit seats". The people that paid it will have some extra note on their e-ticket or maybe they get given a nice coloured piece of card at the desk or something. If you sit in the marked "€15 extra" seats having not paid the supplement so don't have the note on your e-ticket or whatever, and then someone boards late that did pay it, then you get turfed out of the seat and left to choose a seat from whatever odd seats are left throughout the plane. It's only around 12 seats that are affected, so anyone that didn't pay the charge and then is foolish enough to not immediately comply when asked to vacate the seat for a passenger that did, should be easy enough to handle.

the crew will most likely put the tray tables down on the emegency exit seats so pax cannot sit in them..and the dispatcher should have a manifest for the crew who has paid for them and who hasnt at check in to resolve any disputes onboard!...problem solved! myself i would prefer the over wing exits as row 1 is practcally in the galley and 1A isnt xleg due to the slide...crew also dont like pax sitting in row1 as you are practically sitting in each others lap during take off and landing! :ok:

....why not just re-name it as 'Farce Class' and be done with it.....

They'll probably give you a little ticket like what they currently do with the priority boarding, and the crew will only let people sit in the exit row if they have bought one of these tickets. Not exactly rocket science....:rolleyes:

A bit unfair to knock RYR on this topic, when many other airlines have been doing it for years. Why haven't ppruners been slagging off the other airlines who've been doing this?:=

I have no problems flying RYR. They may not treat their staff very well, but their flights are cheap and in my experience on time. It's a no frills airline and that's what you get. :D

I sat in an RYR emergency exit row last week for no extra charge. Plenty of space too!!! Hey I'm easy to please.:ok:

Skintman

I was going to suggest that you could just not bother with the toilet paper and use the in-flight magazine, but then I remembered that Ryanair don't have in-flight magazines (and they'd probably charge for them if they did).

I find the emergency 'card' stuck to the back of the seat in front a bit hard to read because it's a bit close, I guess I need new glasses. Or a bigger seat pitch.

Ryanair do have an in-flight magazine, and it's quite good (in my opinion).

As to paying for the exit row seats... this would be a disaster for me! I'm tall and use Ryanair a couple of times a month, and can't remember the last time I didn't manage to get one of the overwing seats just by being in the priority boarding queue. Yes, I'm one of those people who leg it to the plane to bag those seats first, but recently I've started to think this isn't necessary as most other people doing the same seem to be heading for the front few rows (to get off first). 15 Euros is a bit steep though... I don't think I'd pay it...

I don't remember there being an in-flight magazine last time I had the pleasure... There was no pocket on the back of the seat and the safety card information was just a sticker on the back of the top part of the seat.

Enjoy.............

http://www.ryanairmag.com/

The crew usually come round offering them just before/after take-off (or not at all, as sometimes happens!).

Ryansf, thank you!

I was wondering what ll the fuss was about and that nobody had mentioned what you did the whole way through the thread.

Generally there has been at least one CC member standing at the emergency exit rows anyway, I remember this as I usually have to ask them to move so I can sit in row 15/16.

As you mentioned, its certainly not rocket science to have a quick look at the boarding card and see if it has "priority seating" or some such along the lines of the boarding cards already saying "priority boarding".

And again has been mentioned previously, there are so many, mostly charter airlines that have been charging for exit row seats for many years.

In my opinion this is one of the most obvious, and comparitively reasonable introductions of Ryanair in a good while.

Interestingly, does anyone know current percentages of Ryanair turnover in relation to fare sales and ancillary sales? Would I be right in saying its "farely" close (sorry I couldn't resist!)

Hello everyone

I'm doing a sector with FR tomorrow, has the charging for exit seats been put in place yet?

Cheers :)

They definately have an in-flight mag. It is not in the seat pocket, cos most times there isn't one. It is handed out after take off by CC, so you can browse through those delighful duty free products and decide which drinks and grub you are going to buy. Yum yum.:ok:

It does have some general reading, but it is mostly stuff to buy.

Skintman

I flew back from DUB to LGW yesterday and got one of these exit seats.

Was nice to have the leg room, but then you are delayed getting off by all those with folks unloading their luggage from the lockers (lots and lots of f:mad:ing luggage) Personally, I wouldn't pay extra for that.

They don't have tray tables on their exit row seats (or at least the a/c we were on yesterday didn't) so not sure how they will keep the punters who haven't paid out of them.

quick note kentish roman, we do have tray tables on ALL seats ,
on the emergancy exits they are in the armrest.:D

15 euros? Fair enough, a lot of other carriers charge more. I paid less than that for my last FR flight. Some people want it all.

aaahhh, I see
 

So that's why the armrests wouldn't move!:)

llondel says:

Bigger seat pitch? Fly BA. The seats in T5 are a long way apart.:yuk::yuk::yuk: