Why do people still queue for Ryanair flights?

I see FR have launched a raft of new initiatives, best one being ability to now check on on both legs of a return journey, prior to departure.

Parchment wrote: »

Its the norm on a flight to Poland. A round of applause is guaranteed.

Yep, the wife is a Pole, we fly there a lot (Krakow, Katowice or Wroclaw) - every time, without fail, they clap.

Parchment wrote: »

Ha! my other half is Polish too. The Poles are very funny flyers - we always have a bet on between us (when we fly to Poland) that whoever who spots a Pole unwrapping the tin foil on the homemade sandwiches at the gate/on the plane gets lunch bought for them!

With kielbasa and gerkin!! They get on planes and sit wherever they feel like it and have bags the size of the Tatra mountains!!

I see a similar thing for trains, people literally prepared to storm through the doors without thinking about leaving whoever is inside waiting off first. All the more ridiculous when the driver has to change ends and the train is clearly not going to be packed to capacity.

Parchment wrote: »

They are pro's at the p!ss-take with the carry on. Everyone has a bag, even tiny kids have huge duffle bags.

Best ever was on a flight back from Wroclaw, plane literally just touched the runway in Dublin and a dziadek (who had probably never been on a flight) stood up and started getting his bag down as the plane sped along the runway. The crew were screaming at him in english to sit down but he didnt even notice and carried on until someone pulled him down into his seat.

Every August, (or at end of any holiday) you see all the Babcia's and Dziadeks coming back with the kids after a summer in Poland. We send our little one very June for 10 weeks or so, and Babcia comes over then for a month or so!

The irony is that RyanAir introduced their high checked bag fees to try to persuade people to travel light with only a carry on bag so that they could minimise their turn around time.
Then they started to squeeze a few more rows of seats in, so coupled with the few overheads taken up with safety equipment, there was even less over overhead space to go around. Now more bags go in the hold, in turn creating delays.
Personally if I have a carry on bag its got stuff in it that I do not want to loose due to a handling error or theft. So I will queue early to get it on with me and be in an overhead within arms reach.

RobertKK wrote: »

I saw people queuing for a Ryanair flight where the plane had not arrived at the airport.
I and some others were sitting but there were not enough seats for everyone.
The plane had not arrived for when last boarding was suppose to start, but once the plane arrived everyone was queuing.
I think a lot were fed up sitting down...

I was flying back from the U.K. last year...last FR flight out,full to the gills....lengthy queue at the advertised gate.
Myself and a couple of other pax sat down at an opposite empty gate,as the incoming flight landed...we noticed a sneaky gate change on the Monitor...with no audible announcement.....(Staff gone home ?)
None of the queing folks appeared to notice,nor did the Agent poking at her iphone.....

We decided to slip away down to the new departure gate...just in case,and Bingo...That feeling of a Plan,coming together ....we were checked through and down the stairs just as the Original Queuers and their helper copped on and began a Charge of the Heavy Brigade down through the empty departure lounge....it was surreal,with people actually screaming and scambling over others to get to the new Gate and give out shyte to the Agents cos they had lost their place in the queue.....including the Priority Boarders !!!

Mind you,even though we got through the gate first,we still had to wait in the Holding Pen on the stairs for another 10 minutes before they'd let us charge across the apron.

A planeful of 180 odd,highly indignant,deeply offended and outraged customers coupled with a half dozen self-satisfied,chuckling,lotto-winners was a joy to listen to....:P

The cabin-crew earned their allowance that night.

I've noticed that "Last Flight's Out",can often throw up unplanned situations and ad-hoc solutions

Myself and my wife were waiting near the gate in Dublin airport about an hour before the gate was even due to open. There was a good few others doing the same thing. I bet my wife that if I stood at the gate with my bag that others would form a queue behind me. She reckoned not as it was too early so up I got with my bag and stood at the gate and within 3 minutes about 9 or 10 others joined me. I went and sat down again and joined the very end of the queue when there were roughly 15-20 people remaining, like I always do. I have never had to place my bag somewhere else, there's always room.

I can understand the queuing in the airport to board if you only have hand luggage and want to guarantee you dont need to check it.

What i dont understand is the people who stand up for 10-15 minutes after the plane lands. Does my head in.
Especially when im sitting in the aisle seat with some muppet in the middle giving me the stink eye because i havent jumped up immediately once the seat belt sign is turned off.