Boarding with Ryanair

[SpottairBRU]

Very interesting to hear of you guys - who value yourselves too high to stoop so low as to fly with Ryanair.
For me, an humble fare-paying customer (as opposed to all those whose fare is paid for by somenone else), the two happiest days in my life, aviationwise, were : the day Ryanair came to CRL and - still more - the day Sabena collapsed.
Cheers.

While I can understand your feeling regarding people who have the advantage of flying for (almost) free (and yet, I'm not old enough on that site to know whether its members with this bonus are a majority), and I'm not one of them, I cannot understand why an aviation enthusiast can be happy that an airline has to fold its wings (being Sabena, Swissair, SkyEurope, whatever the name or the reason). As I can't understand why a human being can be happy when thousands of people lose their jobs.

Thanks for the provokation, I don't know what was your aim, express some jealousy or frustration, but I suggest we keep this discussion to Conti's question, which was how the boarding procedure with FR was working. We answered him, and gave him some piece of advice. Maybe I should buy new glasses, but I did not see any comment of people valuing themselves to high to fly FR. Fact is most of the answers came from people having experienced Ryanair. Personnally I've never been disappointed by them (always got my flights, got cheap fares, and no big delays), would fly them again without hesitation if the price difference with a classic airline or other LCC justify it (I always paid my flights with my own money, except once, work related).

Have a nice day!

[regi]

Very interesting to hear of you guys - who value yourselves too high to stoop so low as to fly with Ryanair.
For me, an humble fare-paying customer (as opposed to all those whose fare is paid for by somenone else), the two happiest days in my life, aviationwise, were : the day Ryanair came to CRL and - still more - the day Sabena collapsed.
Cheers.

While I can understand your feeling regarding people who have the advantage of flying for (almost) free (and yet, I'm not old enough on that site to know whether its members with this bonus are a majority), and I'm not one of them, I cannot understand why an aviation enthusiast can be happy that an airline has to fold its wings (being Sabena, Swissair, SkyEurope, whatever the name or the reason). As I can't understand why a human being can be happy when thousands of people lose their jobs.

Thanks for the provokation, I don't know what was your aim, express some jealousy or frustration, but I suggest we keep this discussion to Conti's question, which was how the boarding procedure with FR was working. We answered him, and gave him some piece of advice. Maybe I should buy new glasses, but I did not see any comment of people valuing themselves to high to fly FR. Fact is most of the answers came from people having experienced Ryanair. Personnally I've never been disappointed by them (always got my flights, got cheap fares, and no big delays), would fly them again without hesitation if the price difference with a classic airline or other LCC justify it (I always paid my flights with my own money, except once, work related).

Have a nice day!

yes we are aviation enthusiasts. But Airazur didn't say he was happy that people lost their job. He was happy that "the Black hole of tax payer's money " finally was taken off life support. I do agree that for many employees it must have been devastating to lose their job, sometimes couples who found themselves suddenly in a crisis. And for > 40 year old employees, it is mentally not easy to consider yourself to be attractive on the labour market. But how many of the Sabena employees are still out of a job now ?
Anyway, the small remark of Airazur and your reaction showed that the Sabena saga has made deep wounds which will probably never heal completely. SN is still flying, Zaventem is still open, tenthousands earn their daily living in and around the airport, new ( foreign ) masters have come, it is a continuous proces.

[regi]

coming back on the boarding:
it will be OK...if your co travellers do not really need to sit next to you.
If it are adults, no problem. I just hope it are not your children. And if this would be the case, you can always try the friendly approach to ask a passenger to change seats.

[fcw]

I like the free seating! Last time I travelled BruAir, I had a middle seat, both neighbours were, like me, a bit overweight, so it wasn't comfortable at all. On FR I choose my middle seat between two good looking skinny blondes.
They are probably not so happy with the free seating...
Be a bit flexible and think about the money you are saving by flying FR.
Just make sure you only have one handbag within FR limits and don't forget your boarding passes at home!

[Stij]

Right, yesterday a round trip to the Veneto with Ryanscair.

To be honest, the CRL VRN flight was... excellent. No big delyas at security, no annoying and stupid questions, mayby just a metaldetector that was a bit on the sharp side as everybody, really everybody had to be searched. Really friendly crew, punctual... perfect.

See, I can admit that!

Now VCE BRU. VCE is a nice airport, good wine bar. Flight arrived 10min late, but hey (BruAir was even cancelled, so, we felt lucky).
Now in VCE, you board via busses and as I've mentionned before... "priority boarding" doesn't really help in these case... on the contrary...

So first a couple of wheelchairs went out, 15min later the "Priority Boarding" were called to the gate and next were us, the "Other Q".

Of course, the "Priority bus" was filled up with "Other Q" pax. I was the last one on the first bus.

We arrived at the plane, wait a few minutes and we started boarding. As I was the last on the bus, I was at the door and in "pole position" for the Rat Race to the plane. The badck door was the target of day. I was passed by a few gentlemen that were actually running to the plane. When we arrived the door, access to the plane was denied because they were still loading the wheelchairs. Front door however was loading pax. 5min later, back door started boarding as well. No problem, because front pax were still blocking the way to the emergency exit rows (Thank-you!), so still got my seat with legroom.

Conclusion: only book priority when you travel in group and really want to sit together and if no busses are involved, otherwise it's a fraud.

But you knew that already, this is not the reason I'm writing this post!

Forget Lourdes, Fatima, Scherpenheuvel, Banneux, Jerusalem, Mekka, the shrine of Vishnu and any other religious place!!! Fly Ryanair!

Or two wheelchair pax were miraciously healed during the flight and could walk off the plane!!! Slow, and blocking everybody else, but they walked!!!

Old-Timers, if you can walk off the plane, you can walk on the plane and you shouldn't be interupting everybody else's travel plans!

Cheers,

Stij

[earthman]

Just because someone can walk on the plane does not mean they can walk the larger distances at the airport, or climb stairs!

[Stij]

That's the whole point: they walked down the stairs: they walked off the plane!

[earthman]

Actually, I think anyone can order special assistance, and if I'm correct this doesn't cost anything extra. Anyone can say my knee is shot I can't walk much further than 10 meters. Show up at the airport with crutches and you're ready to go.

[cnc]

That's the whole point: they walked down the stairs: they walked off the plane!

there are 3 types of weelchair pax
WCHR = pax can walk and do stairs but need the weelchair mainly to cross the terminal/tarmac
WCHS = pax can walk inside the aircraft but can not do stairs and need the weelchair to cross the terminal/tarmac
WCHC = can not walk at all