Aer Lingus and Ryanair

Manic Moran

But why should I have to put my seat back up just because you ask me to? Its not your place.

It is my place, though.

If the fence between our yards is bending over onto my side of the line, I would be well within my rights to tell you to straighten it up, even if the bottom of it was right on the border.

If the fence that was bending over was onto public land behind our gardens, however, I would be somewhat out of place to demand you straighten it up.

In a nutshell, if the seat behind you is unoccupied, lean it back as much as you want. If the seat behind you is occupied by a fairly short person, lean back a bit. If the seat behind you is occupied by a lanky fecker, be courteous and don't lean it back at all, or be prepared to be pushed back.

My reclining my own seat doesn't do a damned thing about the problem of your seat running up against my legs. Between the floor and the base of the back of my seat where the reclining hinge is, there is only one joint in my leg: The knee. The amount of room my leg takes to go up from the floor to where it makes that right turn to go rearwards is a fixed amount, and cannot be changed no matter what angle my back is at. Neither can the distance required between the back of my seat and the knee. Just saying 'recline your own seat' shows a decided ignorance of the root problem. It's not your headrest in my face, it's the lower part of the seat back in my knees.

NTM

Piri

dolihalix wrote: »

my 2 cents on Ryanair. I was meant to fly to Bratislava with Ryanair on 24th. They let us on board at half 6, were meant to take off at 6:45. About that time Ryanair decided to destroy Christmas for me and a couple of hundred other people. I'd go on the rant, but what's the point really, so I'm just going to throw a couple of facts at ya. We were waiting onboard for 6!! hours, watching Aer Lingus planes landing and taking off, after 4 hours the crew(they didn't get paid btw) said they got an OK from Ryanair to SELL!! food and drinks. there was about 12 planes lined up waiting for deicing, our plane was the only one left on the ground. no explanation, just a simple announcement that a police was called in case we didn't want to leave the plane. I felt horrible for most of my countrymen as they've traveled from the other side of the country just to get on the plane, had to spend Christmas in hotel room because there was hardly any chance they were going to get back to wherever they came from. Mind you, airport was fully operating, sky was crystal clear and it hasn't been snowing or anything, but the problem was that Ryanair prob has only one deicing vehicle available.
My community is not that big, so I was actually thinking about tracking people down and just try and do something about it, I can't get my head around the fact the Ryanair will pocket 20 grand or whatever while not paying their staff and/or providing any service. I'm not even talking about the fact that the delay was caused by them, not the weather or anything else. They didn't provide us any information, food, not even a simple sorry from Ryanair's management. How am I supposed to get up and go about everything as usual if that can happen without any punishment for the company? It's very frustrating..

One had to call ambulance as little children dehydrated while waiting to take off.
Ambulance said that was the 40th on that day...
Crazy times

vintac34

Well its one of the reasons(as quoted by a previous poster) that i will pay up to 50eu to be treated with some respect and avoid the boarding stampede!!!!

Also suspect that they(The CCrew) were TOLD to sell as much as possible before the unfortunates were told get OFF or maybe F### O## and rebook? + Same T&Cs apply..

Terrontress

Manic Moran wrote: »

It is my place, though.

If the fence between our yards is bending over onto my side of the line, I would be well within my rights to tell you to straighten it up, even if the bottom of it was right on the border.

If the fence that was bending over was onto public land behind our gardens, however, I would be somewhat out of place to demand you straighten it up.

In a nutshell, if the seat behind you is unoccupied, lean it back as much as you want. If the seat behind you is occupied by a fairly short person, lean back a bit. If the seat behind you is occupied by a lanky fecker, be courteous and don't lean it back at all, or be prepared to be pushed back.

My reclining my own seat doesn't do a damned thing about the problem of your seat running up against my legs. Between the floor and the base of the back of my seat where the reclining hinge is, there is only one joint in my leg: The knee. The amount of room my leg takes to go up from the floor to where it makes that right turn to go rearwards is a fixed amount, and cannot be changed no matter what angle my back is at. Neither can the distance required between the back of my seat and the knee. Just saying 'recline your own seat' shows a decided ignorance of the root problem. It's not your headrest in my face, it's the lower part of the seat back in my knees.

NTM

So what would you propose if the seat behind you is empty but the one in front isn't? You can recline all you like but the guy in front can't, all because you are a lanky fecker? Seems a little unfair to me. I'm not a shorty, I'm 6'2", but that is not the concern of the guy in front.

The person in front of me has the right to recline his as he sees fits and without asking permission, just as I have the same right with my seat. The seat is designed to recline. The garden fence is not.

On a short flight it is never such an issue. On a longer flight there is always a premium economy option. This brings other benefits as well as legroom but the legroom justifies the extra cost!