Improvements at Ryanair

sully2010 wrote: »

I've never had any problems flying Ryanair the many times I have but when things go wrong I would not like to be there:

Absolute madness. I've seen no frills but that is off the scale. Ryanair seemed to have little to no presence at all according to that video! There was one guy there who apparently said or did nothing. Then the pilot on the intercom once very early on. Beyond that, the police having to break into the terminal to let passengers in?!

There is no frills and then there is having a planeload of your passengers effectively imprisoned in an airport late at night because they can't take off nor can they leave the damn airport due to lack of manpower! Dreadful.

fr336 wrote: »

I hope Essex police fine them for wasting police time too

I assume you mean fine the airport authorities and ground handlers. I am sure there will be many questions asked of both the aforementioned parties.

Thoie wrote: »

I'm astounded someone didn't activate the slides before then, and f*** the consequences. At least if they jailed you for it there'd be air and water, and more space.

Because, despite popular belief, the majority of low budget airline passengers would prefer to call the police than get arrested themselves :P Good for them.

adam88 wrote: »

Shannon to stansted this morning big que formed about 45 minutes before they left people into the plane.

For what. You have a seat what's the rush. Good ole Michael o Leary has us programmed to hurry up and wait.

I enjoyed them all scurry onto the plane to get their pre selected seat

Yeah its the same with Aer Lingus as well.

The passengers on my last Ryanair flights did this as well.

I much rather chill with a tea or coffee reading the newspaper until about 80% have boarded and then join the queue.

murphaph wrote: »

They should make it a rule that only "proper" cabin bags can go in the overhead lockers (and properly stowed sideways) and all "soft bags" (or at least all handbags) and coats etc. should get squashed under the seat in front. There's really plenty of room for the cabin baggage but the space under the seats is generally wasted.

It's been my painful experience that people in general travel with WAAY to much luggage,most of which will remain untouched for the duration of whatever visit is being made.

murphaph wrote: »

They should make it a rule that only "proper" cabin bags can go in the overhead lockers (and properly stowed sideways) and all "soft bags" (or at least all handbags) and coats etc. should get squashed under the seat in front. There's really plenty of room for the cabin baggage but the space under the seats is generally wasted.

That has been the rule for as long as I've worked there! The boarding PA asked people to place all handbags etc under the seat in front of you. Each double hatbin has space for 5 standard carry on cases, wheels first, as the bins are sloped at the back to accommodate them. The exceptioni to this is the forward ones, and row 14. People are reluctant to place handbags/coats/laptop bags/duty free etc under the seat in front of them, it's a constant battle during boarding to ask people to cooperate, the 90 bag rule has been on godsend for us on board!!

(Until you get the one person who HAS to have all his 3 bags with him and stands and argues despite the fact their bag has been yellow tagged and they're literally the last person to board the aircraft and the flight is booked at 187, thank f**k for the decent passenger who boarded first and offered to put his bag in the hold to stop the shouting, so thank you 28D whoever you were!!)

Fagashlil wrote: »

That has been the rule for as long as I've worked there! The boarding PA asked people to place all handbags etc under the seat in front of you. Each double hatbin has space for 5 standard carry on cases, wheels first, as the bins are sloped at the back to accommodate them. The exceptioni to this is the forward ones, and row 14. People are reluctant to place handbags/coats/laptop bags/duty free etc under the seat in front of them, it's a constant battle during boarding to ask people to cooperate, the 90 bag rule has been on godsend for us on board!!

(Until you get the one person who HAS to have all his 3 bags with him and stands and argues despite the fact their bag has been yellow tagged and they're literally the last person to board the aircraft and the flight is booked at 187, thank f**k for the decent passenger who boarded first and offered to put his bag in the hold to stop the shouting, so thank you 28D whoever you were!!)

See I'd be pure ignorant there and make him pay the excess or else get him to leave the bag behind. Just out of pure pig ignorance.

I'd only be delighted to have my bag in the hold. Don't have the drag it up and down the numerous stairs and escalators in stansted.

homerjay2005 wrote: »

the amount of people that are queuing still, is unbelievable.

seen flights not even having planes at the gate with queues of 50+ people yesterday.

I'd imagine it'll take some time for people to get out of the habit that they've gotten in to. After years of conditioning to que early to get seats together etc it'll likely take a long time for people to get used to the idea that they have an assigned seat. Many still do it even with airlines that have always had assigned seating.

bbk wrote: »

Why would Ryanair have the 90 bag rule where Aer Lingus don't? I wonder as on busy flights they both put the extra stuff in the hold so two different approaches. Very open ended question as I can only speculate.

I'd speculate they want to identify the issue (by counting) before it occurs and causes delays.

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