is leg room on ryanair worse than on aer lingus

irish_bob

i know this is a strange thread title but its an important one for me , im very long in the leg and i couldnt tollerate a 3 hr flight with my knees over my head , ive never actually flown ryanair but have heard that the leg room is worse than on aer lingus

Arcee

This site might not help with your question (don't think they include ryanair) but you might find it useful for future trips...

http://www.seatguru.com/

Ponster

irish_bob wrote: »

i know this is a strange thread title but its an important one for me , im very long in the leg and i couldnt tollerate a 3 hr flight with my knees over my head , ive never actually flown ryanair but have heard that the leg room is worse than on aer lingus

IMO there is very little difference between Ryanair and Aerlingus regarding legroom.

Fork up the extra to choose your seats and grab the exit-row for extra comfort.

Random

There's a massive different Ryanair -v- Aer Lingus in terms of general comfort and leg room. For a 1hr flight take the Ryanair discomfort (or less comfort). For 2hr I'm leaning toward considering Ryanair too now for the future.

I always go for AL if there's only 30eur or 40eur in it, but will be opting more toward RA in the future simply because of the cost - RA are generally a lot cheaper.

Ryanair exit rows are beautiful though, but you'll want priority boarding and top of the queue to get it (unless you're me on a flight last weekend and everybody who had priority seemd more interested in sitting up the front!!).

How big are you? If you're not very tall or if you're a skinny little thing then it'll make no difference to you to be honest.

irish_bob

Random wrote: »

There's a massive different Ryanair -v- Aer Lingus in terms of general comfort and leg room. For a 1hr flight take the Ryanair discomfort (or less comfort). For 2hr I'm leaning toward considering Ryanair too now for the future.

I always go for AL if there's only 30eur or 40eur in it, but will be opting more toward RA in the future simply because of the cost - RA are generally a lot cheaper.

Ryanair exit rows are beautiful though, but you'll want priority boarding and top of the queue to get it (unless you're me on a flight last weekend and everybody who had priority seemd more interested in sitting up the front!!).

How big are you? If you're not very tall or if you're a skinny little thing then it'll make no difference to you to be honest.

im 6 ft 4 , the ryanair flight is 60 euro where as the aer lingus flight is double that , im going to budapest in january , on btw , do ryanair fly to the same airport in budapest that aer lingus do , i dont want to have to get a train for 2 hrs after i hop off the plane

Arcee

Have you checked Malev Hungarian airlines? I flew from Dublin to Budapest with them recently....

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They both fly to the same airport.

alpha2zulu

Being long-legged you might want to bear in mind that Ryanair seats at least cant be reclined into your face.

While I would choose EI where possible on EU flights because I can actually fall asleep in their comfy leather seats, it is so annoying when your on a 2-3hour EI flight and as soon as the seatbelt light goes off at 10000feet , the seat in front of you is put into full recline:mad:

For a fee, at least on EI you can be guaranteed an exit row seat rather than go through the priority boarding nonsense on RYR

irish_bob

Arcee wrote: »

Have you checked Malev Hungarian airlines? I flew from Dublin to Budapest with them recently....

i flew with malev once , thier at least twice as expensive as aer lingus , you pay nearly 100 euro for a crappy breakfast

Random

I would opt for guarenteed comfort generally if I could stretch to the extra few euro but in this case it's €60 extra for the AL flight and then another €15 each way (I think anyway) for the exit row.

I guess at this point I'd weigh up the potential costs of my trip. Am I staying in a fancy hotel? Then I'm gonna book AL and have some comfort all the way. Am I staying in hostels and getting everything on the cheap because I know I really can't afford this holiday? Then I'm gonna have to go RA and just put up with a couple hours of discomfort. Yah, not the most pleasent flight ever but could be worse. I'll a few extra euro saved to spend toward something else then too.

I think (having previously sworn against RA and for AL for comfort reasons, but now leaning toward RA for financial reasons) that I'd probably spend the extra fiver on priority boarding on RA and just get in the queue early at the airport. There's 18 seats with leg room on the plane so I reckon you're bound to get one of them* if you have priority boarding.


*unless you're getting on a bus to get to the plane from the gate .. in which case it's a real slap in the face because you'll be first on the bus and so the last one off! I'm not familiar with Budapest airport having never flown to it, but I know RA seem to favour people walking across the tarmac anyway.

Benedict XVI

I too am long in leg

I do not travel often but anytime I have flown Ryainair in the last few years I have never failed to get the exit row.

Most people board the Ryanair plane from the front stairs and take the first seats they see, fewer board from the back and even fewer board from the back and bother walking all the way up to the middle before they take a seat.

So if you are going Ryainair, board at the back and keep going to the middle and you will invariably find the exit rows empty.

Actually you will usually see a member of cabin crew standing at the exit row seats to make sure that they are only occupoied by able-bodied passengers, the fact that someone is standing there often wards off people from actually approaching the exit row seats at all.

A few months back I was almost last on a packed flight and still got an exit row

irish_bob

Random wrote: »

I would opt for guarenteed comfort generally if I could stretch to the extra few euro but in this case it's €60 extra for the AL flight and then another €15 each way (I think anyway) for the exit row.

I guess at this point I'd weigh up the potential costs of my trip. Am I staying in a fancy hotel? Then I'm gonna book AL and have some comfort all the way. Am I staying in hostels and getting everything on the cheap because I know I really can't afford this holiday? Then I'm gonna have to go RA and just put up with a couple hours of discomfort. Yah, not the most pleasent flight ever but could be worse. I'll a few extra euro saved to spend toward something else then too.

I think (having previously sworn against RA and for AL for comfort reasons, but now leaning toward RA for financial reasons) that I'd probably spend the extra fiver on priority boarding on RA and just get in the queue early at the airport. There's 18 seats with leg room on the plane so I reckon you're bound to get one of them* if you have priority boarding.


*unless you're getting on a bus to get to the plane from the gate .. in which case it's a real slap in the face because you'll be first on the bus and so the last one off! I'm not familiar with Budapest airport having never flown to it, but I know RA seem to favour people walking across the tarmac anyway.

whats priority boarding and how do you sign up for it

Ponster

irish_bob wrote: »

whats priority boarding and how do you sign up for it

you'll see it on the 'site after having picked your flights.

From what I remember when you buy your ticket on-line priority boarding is selected by default. If you don't want it then you have to manually deselect it.

Ryanair is a horrible airline in my opinion, the one thing it has going for it cheap prices but if I could afford it, I'd pick Aer Lingus every time.

Random

Deleted User wrote: »

Ryanair is a horrible airline in my opinion, the one thing it has going for it cheap prices but if I could afford it, I'd pick Aer Lingus every time.

I think we'd all pick comfort if we could afford it each time. Hell, I'd be flying in a private yet if I could !

Bakharwaldog

Its amizing actually how horrible ryan air is...its not just that they do things cheap its like they deliberately try and make the flight as unomfortable as possible...that annoyin tune they have at the start of th flight? the blue and yellow plastic interior..the advertisement boards along the overhead storage...cramped seats as well...its jus horible

Cheap out tho!:D:D

CantGetNoSleep

Benedict XVI wrote: »

I too am long in leg

I do not travel often but anytime I have flown Ryainair in the last few years I have never failed to get the exit row.

Most people board the Ryanair plane from the front stairs and take the first seats they see, fewer board from the back and even fewer board from the back and bother walking all the way up to the middle before they take a seat.

So if you are going Ryainair, board at the back and keep going to the middle and you will invariably find the exit rows empty.

Actually you will usually see a member of cabin crew standing at the exit row seats to make sure that they are only occupoied by able-bodied passengers, the fact that someone is standing there often wards off people from actually approaching the exit row seats at all.

A few months back I was almost last on a packed flight and still got an exit row

Same here, was one of the last on a 95% full Ryanair flight a few weeks ago but still managed to get an Emergency Exit seat with no one beside me either, might have been because there was a staff member sitting there wearing a black uniform, when all the others wore blue

axer

I think there is a but 1cm in the difference.

For me, I rather fly ryanair just because an inconsiderate w'anker cannot put their seat back on top of you.

You can sleep on ryanair flights (at least i can) if you get a window seat for something to lean against. I generally just watch a movie on my laptop and i am there anyway.

The way I see it is the ryanair seats are more comfortable than citylink bus seats so I am happy since it is only a flying bus afterall.

finbarrk

Personally I'd choose A.L. because of the reclining seats. It's impossible to snooze on those R.A. seats because they don't recline. There also seems to be a bit more leg room on A.L.

Loco

Tiny bit more legroom on AL. Not worth the extra cash and poor reliability imho.

Boom_Bap

axer wrote: »

I think there is a but 1cm in the difference.

For me, I rather fly ryanair just because an inconsiderate w'anker cannot put their seat back on top of you.

You can sleep on ryanair flights (at least i can) if you get a window seat for something to lean against. I generally just watch a movie on my laptop and i am there anyway.

The way I see it is the ryanair seats are more comfortable than citylink bus seats so I am happy since it is only a flying bus afterall.

Not in recent times, every 10 - 20 minutes they are announcing such and such product that they have for sale and that the cabin crew will be coming through begging for money from you on behalf of thier employers.

I dont see much difference in the leg room between AL and RA, but as everyone says, go for the exit seats.

jdivision

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Ryanair is a horrible airline in my opinion, the one thing it has going for it cheap prices but if I could afford it, I'd pick Aer Lingus every time.

So you get to go to places you wouldn't be able to see otherwise and you're complaining?:rolleyes:

jdivision

jdivision wrote: »

So you get to go to places you wouldn't be able to see otherwise and you're complaining?:rolleyes:

I don't see Ryanair going to Brazil or the Caribbean so let's not get carried away. I just don't like Ryanair and 90% of the time, it's full of complete knackers who actually LIKE the tacky colour scheme and the cheap crap they sell on board. For students, it's perfect, if I had a family, I'd do my very best to not bring them on a Ryanair flight for anything apart from Dublin - London.

Put it this way, if Ryanair ever bought Aer Lingus, it would be the worst representation of Ireland imaginable. A ****ing disgrace.

ordinary_story

Al has slightly more legroom but are far more comfrotable than Ryanair.

BuffyBot

Please keep this thread on topic (legroom) - not about anything else.

Cheers.

axer

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Not in recent times, every 10 - 20 minutes they are announcing such and such product that they have for sale and that the cabin crew will be coming through begging for money from you on behalf of thier employers.

ear plugs.

If you do want seats with extra leg room you could just pay the 4/5 euro per journey and get the emergency exits. Still cheaper than AL for that too.

irish_bob

finbarrk wrote: »

Personally I'd choose A.L. because of the reclining seats. It's impossible to snooze on those R.A. seats because they don't recline. There also seems to be a bit more leg room on A.L.

its not physically possible to put me to sleep on a plane , i flew from nz a number of yrs ago and didnt sleep for one whole second so being able to sleep going to budapest with ryanair is not an issue for me , if the leg room is no worse than on aer lingus , then im happy enough

as i tell everyone under 4 ft , never let anyone tell you thier is any advantage in being tall

adamski8

irish_bob wrote: »

its not physically possible to put me to sleep on a plane , i flew from nz a number of yrs ago and didnt sleep for one whole second so being able to sleep going to budapest with ryanair is not an issue for me , if the leg room is no worse than on aer lingus , then im happy enough

as i tell everyone under 4 ft , never let anyone tell you thier is any advantage in being tall

ive flown with ryanair about 10-15 times and have always got a emergency seat minus one time and thats mainly without priority if you dont mind not sitting with yr friends you should be able to get one and i have long legs and i can tell no difference between AL and RA