Ryanair safety concerns, that I have

dohouch

As a footloose Paddy I appreciate how Ryanair has set us free from our island prison.

Their recent adoption of a softer image is also welcome.

However on a recent flight to SDR, I was amazed :eek: to see the number of suitcase standing on the floor space of unoccupied seats. Unfortunately I didn't think to take photos.

Thinking of reporting this to Ryanair HQ.:(

Anybody able to suggest an email address and also to copy in Civil Aviation Authority.
thaks

tmh106

What's the problem, as long as they are not emergency exits?

dohouch

dohouch wrote: »

As a footloose Paddy I appreciate how Ryanair has set us free from our island prison.

Their recent adoption of a softer image is also welcome.

However on a recent flight to SDR, I was amazed :eek: to see the number of suitcase standing on the floor space of unoccupied seats. Unfortunately I didn't think to take photos.

Thinking of reporting this to Ryanair HQ.:(

Anybody able to suggest an email address and also to copy in Civil Aviation Authority.
thaks

1) no photos, it won't go very far without them.

2) was the aircraft on the ground or in the air, if it was in the air then their is no issue, stowage of such bags is for take off and landing.

Pat Dunne

Can you give some details of the flight? How many empty seat spaces were used in this way? What type of "suitcase" did you see?

If there where empty seats on the flight, that would normally be sufficient room in the overhead lockers or in the space directly underneath the seat in front of you to place cabin baggage and the handbag lapttop bag bring on as well.

I have recently been on a number of FR flights that have not had an empty seat and on each occasion cabin baggage was placed in the hold at the boarding gate.

homerjay2005

How is this a safety concern??? If the bags are not in peoples ways then there is no issue.

If it was an emergency row then yes, but as emergency rows wouldn't be unoccupied it wouldn't be the case.

LXFlyer

I'm presuming that the OP would be concerned that they might fall over into the aisle and therefore create a trip hazard in the event of an emergency?

Dial Hard

lxflyer wrote:

I'm presuming that the OP would be concerned that they might fall over into the aisle and therefore create a trip hazard in the event of an emergency?

If only there were some way to rectify such a situation...?

PCX

I would presume the OP might have been concerned that in the case of severe turbulence or an incident that caused an emergency off runway landing there would not be time to safely stow the baggage. If they were pushed under the seat in front, instead of being just left in the floor space, it would contain them such an event.

It's a very unlikely senario, on any given flight, but if it happened having unsecured bags flying around the cabin at high speed could easily cause unnecessary injuries or deaths.

Many protocols in aviation safety are put in place in case an unlikely senario happens because with the number of flights we have worldwide it will happen to someone, somewhere eventually.

Locker10a

Hi OP!

I work as crew for a well know airline and I can tell you the battle with cabin baggage is not something Ryanair alone have issues with!
Its a problem for every airline and you are correct in thinking this a safety issue! The amount of luggage carried inside the aircraft cabin is highly dangerous and will very probably kill someone in a future accident but as its inconvenient to tackle this issue nothing will be done.
As for bags being stowed in empty rows of seats this is permitted once the row is empty, if there is an empty window seat a trolly case may also be stowed there but bags must not be a trip hazard to other passengers in the row so may only be in the window if the seat(aisle or middle) are occupied . At my airline the case must fit UNDER the seat.
This is a major issue all over the world that airlines face and admittedly created themselves but because it mean they make more money and it would be costly to manage this problem nothing will be done until there are people killed or seriously injured and a new regulation is introduced.

Tenger

This thread isn't leading anywhere and will be locked soon

fr336

Probably needs closing before a bored Daily Mail journo logs in for their daily browse

nuckeythompson

What about sudden altitude loss. Dam right it's a safety concern.

Tenger

nuckeythompson wrote: »

What about sudden altitude loss. Dam right it's a safety concern.

Of course it is....its a concern for every airline.

If you have a legitimate safety concern then email the IAA. They are the regulator of all Irish based operators.
Otherwise stop airline bashing.

PinOnTheRight

nuckeythompson wrote: »

What about sudden altitude loss. Dam right it's a safety concern.

Such as that likely to be a result of clean air turbulence during cruise?

MoeJay

If there is a genuine safety concern in relation to any airline or a particular flight that someone has been on, you can voluntarily report it to the IAA. Just google IAA Voluntary Report and follow the link.

homerjay2005

fr336 wrote: »

Probably needs closing before a bored Daily Mail journo logs in for their daily browse

would be something like this i would imagine.

Ryanair flight in mid air luggage disaster.

The Civil Aviation Authority is being called on to investigate a terrifying incident on-board a Ryanair flight this week in which dozens of suitcases were discovered to be stored in an unused row of seats.

A passenger on the flight described a scene of utter carnage and said that its a miracle that 100's of people weren't killed by the dangerous suitcases.

"I was amazed to see the number of suitcase standing on the floor space of unoccupied seats," she said.

The passenger who said the plane resembled a "prison", advised that a wave of panic struck the entire flight when the passenger said "hey, there's a suitcase not correctly locked in" and that several passengers were emotionally disturbed for several minutes after the flight eventually landed.

"One passenger told me that he heard that luggage's stored like this normally leads to a wing falling off so you can imagine how worried we were," she added.

Sources say once the luggage was removed, the plane was back in the air only 25 minutes later without adequate safety inspection of the effected area.
when we called Ryanairs 90 cents a minute hotline, nobody answered after 30 seconds waiting so we hung up.

fr336

homerjay2005 wrote: »

would be something like this i would imagine.

:D:D Every line of that had a new laugh.