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I never understood why you'd want to be on the plane early. I don't really find it more comfortable on the plane than at the gate, and it's not like you're gonn
by fhd2 2y ago
I never understood why you'd want to be on the plane early. I don't really find it more comfortable on the plane than at the gate, and it's not like you're gonna take off faster than the last people to board. Almost feels like a trap to get people who don't fly often to pay a little more.
- cj 2y agoOverhead space. Not being forced to check a bag at the gate.
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- venfen 2y agoBecause some companies sell more than places in the plane and there are places that same sit is given to more than one person and there are situations when last on the line can not get on the place since all places are occupied. It happened for friends of us.
- fhd2 2y agoUh, that's scary! I had this happen on one flight, they asked someone to take the next flight for some kind of bonus and someone volunteered. Pretty insane that this can happen in the first place, but I guess with something like Ryanair I can see how people might want to play it safe then!
- jadyoyster 2y agoI don't think Ryanair does this.
- oarsinsync 2y agoRyanair absolutely does this. I've been on a flight in the last 3 months that was +2 oversold. Everyone else had checked in online earlier than me and gotten a seat assignment, so I was held at the gate, unable to pass, until the gate was ready to close and they had confirmed they had a seat for me. The 'rules' state that they're supposed to ask for volunteers, but in this instance, they didn't. I was just withheld from boarding until they confirmed they had a seat for me.
- 76SlashDolphin 2y agoBut you can't even get to the gate if you haven't checked in, at which point you get an assigned seat. If you somehow managed to get past the entry point and security without checking in then something went wrong at the airport, not with RyanAir.
- oarsinsync 2y agoSame as the sibling comment already stated, I was able to check in, and instead of being assigned seat 24B (or something of that calibre), my boarding pass said “seat assigned at gate”. I still had a valid boarding pass. Nothing went wrong at the airport, besides Ryanair failing to follow correct overbooking procedure. Fortunately in that instance, had they refused boarding on me, I would have suffered zero inconvenience, and have received 350 euros compensation and a flight the next day. In a way, I wish they had refused me that day.
- woodruffw 2y agoI don’t think this is true — every airline that I know of supports “seat assignment at gate” to handle exactly this kind of overbooking. (How it happens can vary: your PNR might not have a seat assigned, or the seat might have been double booked. Either way, at check-in they’ll typically notify you and let you through regardless, since you have a perfectly valid ticket.)
- arethuza 2y agoPretty much every airline overbooks?
- bakuninsbart 2y agoDon't think this works at least in Europe due to regulations. Due to some kind of error, I was bumped from from a flight a year ago, which meant I a) got a free flight the next day b) got the cost of food and a hotel for the night back from the airline, and c) around 80€ flat. So unless you absolutely have to be there the day of your flight, it is even a pretty good deal to stay.
- CaptainZapp 2y ago> c) around 80€ flat. Then they cheated you. The cash compensation in Europe if they bump you is 250 - 600 EUR per flight and person, depending on distance. That even applies for significant delays. To be fair, it can be a hassle to get it. But sometimes, if the airline is clearly at fault not. And for the record: Every airline overbooks. But usually they find enough volounteers to make it work.
- rsynnott 2y agoI think this is more an American phenomenon; Ryanair does not systematically do it as far as I know. The EU's passenger rights reg would make this extremely expensive for the airline.
- arccy 2y agoyou may be able to get overhead bin space (near your seat)
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- bqmjjx0kac 2y agoIf you get on later, there might not be room in the overhead compartment. That's the only rational reason I can come up with to get on the plane earlier.
- tass 2y agoI flew Ryanair only twice this year, but both times you had to pay extra to use the overhead bins anyway. They were fairly empty thanks to this.
- patates 2y ago> you had to pay extra to use the overhead bins I'm not sure if I'm shocked to hear this because it breaks my expectations, or because it's just silly.
- pintxo 2y agoGiven that the overhead bins are usually highly congested, the capitalist playbook clearly says you should be able to solve this space allocation problem by introducing a cost for the space usage.
- mrguyorama 2y agoExcept the overhead bins only got cluttered in the first place because capitalists took something that was usually included, a checked bag, and charged $50 for it, so now passenger planes fly with pretty underfilled cargo areas and overstuffed overhead compartments that make it take 2x as long to board and deboard the plane. So yeah, inventing a problem where there wasn't one and selling a solution IS actually the capitalist playbook. FYI, the low cost airlines in the US are actually in a business crisis right now, because their cost per seat mile has doubled and none of them are really making a profit, while the legacy carriers are making reasonable profit. So expect some truly offensive bullshit from "low cost" carriers to offset their bad business decisions. They doubled their fleet size but now each plane is flying fewer hours per day, and wouldn't you know that's bad for an airline, from an economics perspective.
- Belphemur 2y agoTLDR; People don't trust airline and airport with their carry on. It's all about being sure your carry on luggage will be in the plane with you and not have to be checked in. People don't want to pay for that and don't trust the airport to get the luggage to their destination. Also if you do multi flight with different airlines that don't have code share you'd have to go take your luggage and checked in it again, do security etc ... (Depends on the airport).
- Lio 2y agoIt's because, certainly the last time I was on Ryanair, if you wanted cabin baggage the cheapest way to get it was to order Speedy Boarding.