Ryanair prebooked seats

pc7

Hi, I've prebooked seats for Ryanair flights, I didn't book the priority queue option. Can I just stay sitting until everyone boards and will my seat be available, or do I have to queue to ensure I still get them?
thanks

boardzz

You can sit back until everyone has boarded and your seat will be waiting for you. Only downside here is the cabin space will be quite full at that stage for you to store your bag. Sometimes after they reach the limit of storage they take bags underneath (for free) and you need to wait to collect your bag which will waste sometime.

spurious

If you don't have a bag the size of a small child, it will fit under the seat in front of you.

pc7

That's great thanks for that.

tricky D

boardzz wrote: »

You can sit back until everyone has boarded and your seat will be waiting for you. Only downside here is the cabin space will be quite full at that stage for you to store your bag. Sometimes after they reach the limit of storage they take bags underneath (for free) and you need to wait to collect your bag which will waste sometime.

This. They only have room for 90 'standard' carry on bags in the overhead bins. So what they do is go down the queue and once they've counted 90 bags they take the rest of the bags into the hold for free. Unusually my bag was on the carousel in Dublin before I got there on a recent trip. So if you've valuables, electronics or another reason to not want to get separated from your bag, make sure you are in the first 90.

pc7

Thanks Tricky we are going for a week so I've a 20kg bag booked in and will just have a handbag getting on, himself will have a backpack so we should be good. Just glad I won't have to queue!

spurious

Wait til you see how many people will queue. It's kind of funny.
They will leap up once the announcement says they will be pre-boarding soon and stand for about 30 minutes before anything happens.

x43r0

I haven't flown in a few months but I always pre-book my seat on Ryanair and it always included 'Priority-Q' with it. Is this not the case anymore?

I would wait for boarding to start then walk on in the priority queue which gave me ample choice of bag storage and I would just chill out in my seat while everyone else got on

boardzz

Everyone gets an assigned seat now. You can still choose priority boarding and a seat of your choice. Both these options cost extra.

x43r0

boardzz wrote: »

Everyone gets an assigned seat now. You can still choose priority boarding and a seat of your choice. Both these options cost extra.

Ah nuts

Having seat choice and priority boarding rolled into one was a sweet deal

jjbrien

x43r0 wrote: »

Ah nuts

Having seat choice and priority boarding rolled into one was a sweet deal

You can still get your choice of seat and priority boarding for 7 euro or 10 euro if you want the premium seat IMO