Ryanair now charge you again after you paid for your flight ?

my parents went of on a holiday to Spain today and the day before i did the online check in for them.

then I am asked to pick a seat 5 euro each ? or 10 euro for a bigger seat ?

how can you pay for a flight then weeks later goes to check in and get charged for seats

how do they get away with this ?

54kroc

Don't pick a seat?

54kroc

54kroc wrote: »

Don't pick a seat?

it would not let me go through unless I did

Frynge

54kroc wrote: »

Don't pick a seat?

It is that easy. What is aperantly not so easy is reading the screen before paying, to then giving out about it.

Last_Minute

I know the process you are on about, i checked in online earlier today and even though it asked me to pay for a seat there was an option to just get allocated a random seat at no extra cost.

AnonoBoy

You done goofed.

kneemos

Man up.Pick a seat.

pablomakaveli

Deleted User wrote: »

my parents went of on a holiday to Spain today and the day before i did the online check in for them.

then I am asked to pick a seat 5 euro each ? or 10 euro for a bigger seat ?

how can you pay for a flight then weeks later goes to check in and get charged for seats

how do they get away with this ?

You can get a free randomly assigned seat but of course if youre travelling with someone this means you'll both be assigned a different seat and wont be sat together even if you booked the tickets together as i found out a couple of days ago.

So now it's basically a case of if you want to sit together on your flight you'll have to pay extra for the priviledge.Ryanairs latest scam.:rolleyes:

Slicemeister

Did Dad suggest just the one seat?

COYVB

pablomakaveli wrote: »

You can get a free randomly assigned seat but of course if youre travelling with someone this means you'll both be assigned a different seat and wont be sat together even if you booked the tickets together as i found out a couple of days ago.

So now it's basically a case of if you want to sit together on your flight you'll have to pay. Ryanairs latest scam.:rolleyes:

I don't think you know what the word scam means to be honest.

Slicemeister

Slicemeister wrote: »

Did Dad suggest just the one seat?

mam dad and little brother all went so 15 euro i had to pay :mad: robbing bastards

and they plan 10 euro flights to the USA lol

kneemos

Wasn't it advertised as an "extra
service"a while back?

wretcheddomain

Deleted User wrote: »

my parents went of on a holiday to Spain today and the day before i did the online check in for them.

then I am asked to pick a seat 5 euro each ? or 10 euro for a bigger seat ?

how can you pay for a flight then weeks later goes to check in and get charged for seats

how do they get away with this ?

For God's sake, they're not charging you twice for your flight.

They're offering SEATS for their prices. It would be the same as purchasing an online Bus Eireann ticket to grab a seat on the bus. But if you want to choose the seat, you've got to pay extra.

If only people read the instructions before purchasing. Yet again, this is a case of the customer making the mistake, not Ryanair.

ben.schlomo

Deleted User wrote: »

mam dad and little brother all went so 15 euro i had to pay :mad: robbing bastards

and they plan 10 euro flights to the USA lol

And yet again you miss the point of choosing unassigned seats, you dont have to pay, you have the choice, but sure have a whinge anyway.

AnonoBoy

Deleted User wrote: »

mam dad and little brother all went so 15 euro i had to pay :mad: robbing bastards

and they plan 10 euro flights to the USA lol

Just because you can't read the website properly doesn't mean they're robbing bastards.

languagenerd

pablomakaveli wrote: »

You can get a free randomly assigned seat but of course if youre travelling with someone this means you'll both be assigned a different seat and wont be sat together even if you booked the tickets together as i found out a couple of days ago.

So now it's basically a case of if you want to sit together on your flight you'll have to pay. Ryanairs latest scam.:rolleyes:

Not true - it assigns you the next available seats. It might have just been the case that there weren't enough seats together or the next available seats weren't together when you checked in, particularly if you left it late. I flew with them 2 weeks ago & my group of four were seated together, as were my parents when they flew a few days later.

Someone posted a detailed description in the Aviation forum on how the allocation works, can't link to the post atm as I'm on my phone though, sorry.

drumswan

pablomakaveli wrote: »

You can get a free randomly assigned seat but of course if youre travelling with someone this means you'll both be assigned a different seat and wont be sat together even if you booked the tickets together as i found out a couple of days ago.

This is not true. Last flight I took I bought the tickets together and the system allocated myself and my partner seats together for no extra charge.

Theres not much Ryanair can do with people who cant read.

Lucas Castroman

I like to sit by the window so I can look at the clouds.

languagenerd

[Deleted User] wrote: »

it would not let me go through unless I did

Was it a 2 week holiday & you were charged for the return? You can check in 7 days in advance for randomly assigned seats (they brought assigned seating in in February this year); you can check in earlier than that if you want to choose seats, which may have been what you did if their return flight was 14 days away at that point.

WilyCoyote

Deleted User wrote: »

mam dad and little brother all went so 15 euro i had to pay :mad: robbing bastards

and they plan 10 euro flights to the USA lol

Bring it on baby, bring it on!

AnonoBoy

Lucas Castroman wrote: »

I like to sit by the window so I can look at the clouds.

Everyone knows Ryanair don't have windows you crazy dreaming fool!

WilyCoyote

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Everyone knows Ryanair don't have windows you crazy dreaming fool!

Looks like windows to me. But carry on:
https://www.google.com/search?q=ryanaIR+OFFICES+DUBLIN&client=gmail&rls=aso&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=0MQgVPeJKrT_sASVt4JI&ved=0CDUQsAQ&biw=1366&bih=667

CrazyRabbit

54kroc wrote: »

Don't pick a seat?

Ryanair actually tried to make it legal to sell 'standing' tickets for their flights.

WilyCoyote

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

Ryanair actually tried to make it legal to sell 'standing' tickets for their flights.

National Inquirer or Globe?

Del2005

Lucas Castroman wrote: »

I like to sit by the window so I can look at the clouds.

Don't ever book 11a, for some reason it has no window!

Amirani

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

Ryanair actually tried to make it legal to sell 'standing' tickets for their flights.

They didn't. Michael O'Leary admitted it was one of several proposals that he came up with that he knew were guaranteed to get Ryanair mentioned in the news, despite having no intention to proceed with it.

keeponhurling

Aerlingus do the same

Boskowski

I just picked random seats and as the two tickets were purchased together we got seats together. Both on outbound and return flight no issue.

The Moldy Gowl

Del2005 wrote: »

Don't ever book 11a, for some reason it has no window!

I got that seat before. Was so happy to get a window seat.

A ****ing wall

fullstop

Waah waaah big bad Ryanair. Every airline does this, either pay extra for a seat of your choice or sit where they put you for free. But sure any excuse for another whinge about Ryaniar.

PizzamanIRL

Tell them to pick a hand for free and whichever hand they pick, extend your fisted hand and slowly raise your middle finger.

bucketybuck

pablomakaveli wrote: »

So now it's basically a case of if you want to sit together on your flight you'll have to pay extra for the priviledge.Ryanairs latest scam.:rolleyes:

Are you transporting a dangerous prisoner and need to be beside him at all times? :rolleyes:

Its a couple of hours, I'm sure you will survive a few hours not sitting beside your mate/parents/honey bunny.

Lapin

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

Ryanair actually tried to make it legal to sell 'standing' tickets for their flights.

No they didn't. O'Leary suggested it as a publicity stunt.

The Daily Mail ran with it.

The gullable fell for it.

padser

To be fair to the OP, the website is very deliberately set up in such a way as to confuse a lot of people into believing the cheapest option is to buy a €5 seat (or at least it was about 6 months ago which was last time I checked in for a Ryanair flight).

Most website employ UX teams to make their websites more user friendly, intuitive etc. Ryanair employ them to ensure that cheap options are obscured and difficult to find, another example is the option for "no travel insurance" hidden among the "countries" list. Also sometimes they change it to "travel insurance not required" meaning you always need to search for it ;-)

anncoates

Haven't flown Ryanair for a while but Aer Lingus try and do the same thing but you just go for random seat as far as I recall.

inocybe

You do have to purchase a seat if you want to be able to print out your return boarding cards, if away for more than 7 days. Which is a lot of people going on holidays who can't get to an internet cafe. It's a sneaky charge that they brought in while claiming to have made the booking process more transparent.

rubberdiddies

inocybe wrote: »

You do have to purchase a seat if you want to be able to print out your return boarding cards, if away for more than 7 days. Which is a lot of people going on holidays who can't get to an internet cafe. It's a sneaky charge that they brought in while claiming to have made the booking process more transparent.

however did people manage for the 50 years that there was no self-printing boarding passes and you had to queue when you arrived at the airport to check-in and get allocated a seat. Now you can only do it up to seven days in advance! shocking altogether!! :cool:

anyway, with the ryanair app, I believe you don't need to print out anything

bear1

The amount of whinging about Ryanair is dumbfounding.
They have a 5e ticket to Malta but I'm going to complain that water is 2.50e.
I couldn't give a **** if the seat cost me 5e if I saved a fortune byt choosing Ryanair, which is probably the only reason people choose that airline.

the_monkey

Deleted User wrote: »

mam dad and little brother all went so 15 euro i had to pay :mad: robbing bastards

and they plan 10 euro flights to the USA lol

Yeah €10 to the USA + €700 in added costs ...


Just go business class Lufthansa

the_monkey

bear1 wrote: »

The amount of whinging about Ryanair is dumbfounding.
They have a 5e ticket to Malta but I'm going to complain that water is 2.50e.
I couldn't give a **** if the seat cost me 5e if I saved a fortune byt choosing Ryanair, which is probably the only reason people choose that airline.

In fairness though, it's not cheaper when you add all the extras, and if it is it's usually in some ****hole airport 40 miles away and you spend the extra costs getting to the city and back.

bennyc

pablomakaveli wrote: »

You can get a free randomly assigned seat but of course if youre travelling with someone this means you'll both be assigned a different seat and wont be sat together even if you booked the tickets together as i found out a couple of days ago.

So now it's basically a case of if you want to sit together on your flight you'll have to pay extra for the priviledge.Ryanairs latest scam.:rolleyes:

No you wont be separated, wife myself and 3 kids and we didn't pick a seat, what we ended up with is the unsold higher priced seats with priority boarding for two flights. Once you do the online check in you get allocated the seats automatically.
I didnt check in till the last minute and got good seats up front. I wont be buying this anytime soon

Eponymous

OP, if you stand on the street and open your wallet to passers-by, offering them the money within, do you consider that robbery too?

You have a choice on Ryanair, pay extra for seats you'd like or pay nothing extra and take what you're given.

Look on the bright side though, OP... Free gaff. When's the party?

cruizer101

OP I salute you and people like you, I've no idea why people are giving out to you. Its thanks to people like you who are happy to pay for silly extras that ryanair can keep the prices down for the rest of us, Cheers

Seve OB

rubberdiddies wrote: »

however did people manage for the 50 years that there was no self-printing boarding passes and you had to queue when you arrived at the airport to check-in and get allocated a seat. Now you can only do it up to seven days in advance! shocking altogether!! :cool:

anyway, with the ryanair app, I believe you don't need to print out anything

flew with them last week and the APP was shoddy at best, boarding pass just plain and simple... didn't work at all, so you had to have it printed out

Beefy78

padser wrote: »

To be fair to the OP, the website is very deliberately set up in such a way as to confuse a lot of people into believing the cheapest option is to buy a €5 seat (or at least it was about 6 months ago which was last time I checked in for a Ryanair flight).

And yet the rest of us seem to have not been confused by it.

Mrs Garth Brooks

[Deleted User] wrote: »

mam dad and little brother all went so 15 euro i had to pay :mad: robbing bastards

and they plan 10 euro flights to the USA lol

Is this true? 10 euro flights to the USA? Are they only planning it now? When is this starting? I need more information ASAP.

Does anyone know what this means if this piece of info is correct? 10 euro the USA, 65 dollars for a ticket to see Garth Brooks and 10 euro back again. Adding in the bus fare to and from the airport, I think I can manage on 150 euro to see Garth Brooks.

I love Ryanair if this is true, but not as much as Garth Brooks.

bear1

the_monkey wrote: »

In fairness though, it's not cheaper when you add all the extras, and if it is it's usually in some ****hole airport 40 miles away and you spend the extra costs getting to the city and back.

True, it can sometimes be cheaper to go with the likes of Aer Lingus but at least in my experience it has very rarely been the case.
There are also some airports which aren't very far from the city or that they fly to the main airport of the city (Dublin, Prague etc).
I'm booking some flights for Xmas and it is working out 250e cheaper return with both adults than with AL.
I think their website has really turned a corner from say 2/3 years ago where it took 1 week to book a flight after getting through all the garbage and then seeing your price has swelled up.
At least now, the price you see is the basic price you can get. Up to you if want the extras which I never bother with anyway.

A Dub in Glasgo

pablomakaveli wrote: »

You can get a free randomly assigned seat but of course if youre travelling with someone this means you'll both be assigned a different seat and wont be sat together even if you booked the tickets together as i found out a couple of days ago.

So now it's basically a case of if you want to sit together on your flight you'll have to pay extra for the priviledge.Ryanairs latest scam.:rolleyes:

Going to Dublin on Thursday, just checked in (4 of us) and got the A, B, C & D seat across the aisle

Explain that one

hynesie08

Mrs Garth Brooks wrote: »

Is this true?

Yes

10 euro flights to the USA?

Some flights yes

Are they only planning it now?

When is this starting?

When ryanair buy aer lingus/ Get the routes and aircraft, at least 5-7 years.

bear1

hynesie08 wrote: »

Yes

Some flights yes

When ryanair buy aer lingus/ Get the routes and aircraft, at least 5-7 years.

Can't see that happening at all tbh.

Mrs Garth Brooks

bear1 wrote: »

Can't see that happening at all tbh.

Getting my hopes up for cheap USA flights.