veteraneastender, Sun 4 Jan 19:49

"As an aside, minor tip if you’re worried about the hand luggage trap at boarding with budget airlines, go to duty free and buy a bag for 10p and stick a couple of your bulky items in the bag and seal it. You’re allowed duty free aside from bag allowance. Doesn’t work if you’re actually buying duty free mind you."

Would these be the general use shopping bag available at any airport controlled retail outlet - rather than the special Security Tamper Evident Bag (STEB) required for duty free liquid purchases when sealing is mandatory ?

pars4life1, Mon 5 Jan 20:39

I don`t particularly like Ryanair, but we all know t you just need to be willing to take that on.

Do they deliberately separate travel partners? Maybe, but who gives a ****, being 10 meters away from them for 2 hours never killed anyone.

Play the game , put up with some **** and you can get a cheap fair in return, don`t play the game, it will cost you.

It`s not like Ryanair`s tactics are new and unexpected

Not your average Sunday League player.

veteraneastender, Tue 6 Jan 15:15

I`m very suprised that Duty Free at EDI would supply an open unsealed STEB.

That compromises their intended use.

GG Riva, Tue 20 Jan 08:47

I contacted Ryanair and asked whether it was its policy to sit customers on the same booking apart even when there were empty seats beside both of us. The reply was "Did you raise this with cabin staff?"

Well, no I didn`t, but it`s rather missing the point at best and certainly didn`t answer my question. We just moved and sat together once every passenger had boarded and was seated.

I think I may contact the CAA and see what they make of it .

Sacktheref69, Wed 21 Jan 16:55

GG Riva, Tue 20 Jan 08:47

I contacted Ryanair and asked whether it was its policy to sit customers on the same booking apart even when there were empty seats beside both of us. The reply was "Did you raise this with cabin staff?"

Well, no I didn`t, but it`s rather missing the point at best and certainly didn`t answer my question. We just moved and sat together once every passenger had boarded and was seated.

I think I may contact the CAA and see what they make of it .

Honestly, I think this is a losing battle. My advice to anyone asking about Ryanair is simple: if sitting together is important to you, pay for it. If there’s an empty seat, once the seatbelt signs are off people can usually move, and more often than not they aren’t asked to return to their original seat.
As I said earlier, most airlines are now copying the model that made Ryanair unpopular in the first place, yet we rarely hear people complaining about BA, Delta, American, etc. for the same issues.
Ryanair has completely transformed air travel while still managing, more often than not, to keep prices well below its competitors. If Ryanair isn’t your thing, you’re free to fly with someone else but as someone who travels frequently, I can say other airlines are doing the same things.

I should also point out that the CAA won’t get involved unless there’s a clear breach of regulation, and to my understanding there hasn’t been one here.

It`s bloody tough being a legend
Ron Atkinson - 1983

red-star-par, Wed 21 Jan 20:39

I see Elon Musk has went on twitter to call the Ryanair main man a "special needs chimp"

You can tell Musk is well on the spectrum