All bookings made with Ryanair after 3 June will be subject to a £4/€5 priority boarding charge. This facility was previously free to those making online bookings and carrying only hand luggage. They say;
''By charging the same fee for priority boarding for both webcheck-in and airport check-in passengers, we hope to ensure that priority boarding will always be available for sale at airports for family members and groups who wish to purchase it.''
Toni, when you say all bookings will be subject to a 5€ priority boarding charge, I assume you mean only those who wish to purchase priority boarding, and not all bookings?
As I have said before, so many people now choose priority boarding that often more than half of the passengers on a flight are priority boarders, which make a bit of a farce of the whole scheme.
Not knocking Ryanair, BTW, just the laughable idea of priority boarding being something special.
Cathy
Exactly Cat. I've always though it was just another crafty way of surreptitiously increasing revenue as it is was inevitable it would end up like this.
Anyone for priority priority boarding
Come on now, who can honestly say that the haven't quietly chuckled to themselves as they board the same bus out to the aircraft as the PB's, especially when you end up closer to the door and consequently are up the stairs and on the plane before them
Spoke to bruv, he said that there is the additional bonus with on-line Priority Boarding of not having to queue up to check-in, you go straight to the security gates, that has got to be worth a £5, saves putting a fuel surcharge on for the summer as well
At Stansted where there are no buses to the plane, you would certainly be last on Ernie, but as Val says, what does it really matter unless you like looking at clouds (or avoiding screaming kids). If people just treated the planes as buses and just got on and sat down where there is a seat, there would not be any need for priority boarding.
Why not post a sensible answer, people will appreciate it more
Val_2 wrote:I prefer the back, that bit comes down last
Er, I hope it doesn't...
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