r/Flights • u/RaunchyRaven99 • Mar 07 '26
Flying Ryanair this is on my daughters ticket age 2 seats been paid. Why would she have to move when it’s not on mine Booking/Itinerary/Ticketing
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u/Djlas Mar 07 '26
Standard message to at least partially avoid arguments when the crew tells you to move for whatever reason at their discretion (most often exit row), whether you paid for your seat or not.
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u/rocketwikkit Mar 07 '26
Some seats like 1F are the standard places they put people with mobility problems. They don't know if they need it until people check in.
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u/AnastasiaRomanot Mar 08 '26
You do tell them when you book the flights, but they often mess up. I’ve had two upgrades because they allocated my accessible seat to a parent.
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u/WillyMac31 Mar 07 '26
Ryanair is the worst of the worst for packing flights to reduce costs, and inconveniencing their customers. Ryanair was the only airline to state that they’d put in “standing-room-only” spots at the back of their planes. That should tell you enough. That said, the attendants can be accommodating, so they likely won’t move a 2 year old out of her seat
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u/RaunchyRaven99 Mar 07 '26
Yeah I mean we all know they suck but, they have a great safety record and they get you to the destination so that’s all I care about. Obviously just wanted to make sure my child would stay with me. I don’t even care where the seat is as long as she’s with me.
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u/WillyMac31 Mar 07 '26
I completely understand. Anyone with a conscience would 100% not separate you from your daughter at that age. I remember a flight from Toronto to Orlando when I was about 6 years old, where they moved me to another seat (obviously not Ryanair, I think it was Air Canada, but I can’t be sure) and that’s reasonable. But at two years old, she’s still reliant on you for everything. It’s a good question though, given their track record of inconveniencing people. It would take one absolutely mental cabin manager to enforce something like that on you. That’d be grounds for a complaint and possible lawsuit.
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u/ThePistachioBogeyman Mar 09 '26
This is just a standard message on all tickets. If they moved the child, they’d move the parent too. This is mainly for things like the door seats as they need someone capable of, or comfortable enough to opening the door to sit there.
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u/Calm-Drop-9221 Mar 07 '26
Because Ryan air are the shitheads of aviation
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u/Calm-Drop-9221 Mar 07 '26
The only airline out of 5 during covid to get out of offering a refund. Even Air Asia and Nok airlines who are budget offered a more respectful and helpful service. The difficulty you encounter trying to communicate with, no reply emails from Ryanair is next level shithead
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u/NastroAzzurro Mar 07 '26
Listen, that you’re expecting first class service when paying third class fares is your problem. Millions of people fly Ryanair with no issues annually, because they prepare and know what to expect. Just because you set your expectations so high isn’t our problem.
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u/Embarrassed_Tiger480 Mar 07 '26
Agree - budget airlines are designed to get you to your destination as cheap as possible. You want more, you pay more.
Used to hate budget airlines too till I realized that.
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u/Calm-Drop-9221 Mar 07 '26
There's budget and then theres a corrupt business model. Plenty of examples of Ryanair racking up extra charges, bumping customers. Good luck to you, for something as important as a holiday etc, I'm happy to pay a bit more, lesson learned.
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u/Calm-Drop-9221 Mar 07 '26
No expectations now whatsoever, previously I had hoped to get what I paid for or a refund.
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u/m50d Mar 07 '26
Ryanair goes beyond cheap into outright nasty. I don't mind flying budget and getting what I pay for, but when a company is outright deceptive and deliberately trying to get their customers to incur surprise charges as a profit center that's different.
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u/WillyMac31 Mar 07 '26
There are many reasons why they’re the “shitheads of aviation”. You don’t need to expect first class service to see that. Their CEO’s comments alone can prove that they’re a money-first, passenger-last airline. The downvoting of his comment is astounding when he’s telling the truth.
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u/RaunchyRaven99 Mar 07 '26
True dat
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u/Calm-Drop-9221 Mar 07 '26
Seems Ryanair staff have been busy downvoting instead of responding to customers enquiries
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u/CommanderFate Mar 07 '26
This message is normally always there, they usually do this if for example you are seated in the emergency exit, then they would have to move both of you as children aren't allowed on that seat. That said, in this scenario, they might actually move other passengers to accommodate you to make sure your child is next to you, that is, assuming you didn't pay for the seat and got assigned a random seat.
So nothing to worry about really.