Anyone aware of a new Ryanair boarding card policy?

Is there any other airline that comes next or near to the prices Ryanair offer? If there is I'd be very interested to know which airline it is.

I booked 3 return flights from Kerry to Manchester for the week of the last mid term break and it was 141 euro for the 3 return flights.

There was no problems booking in online and printing off boarding cards. Very good selection of very cheap booze and cigarettes on board too and no problem moving to any empty seats once the safety belts were allowed to be unfastened.

it's pretty clear from the article that its not true. If it did happen it seems to have been a tech fault.

This seems fairly unimplementable as you won't know you're within the 'last 20 people' to check in. It also doesn't solve the issue around people getting a premium seat for free. Policy is still the same at the moment

I guess the 'unknown' factor may push people to simply book a seat when they buy a flight? From what I've seen on Twitter, nearly everyone who had this sprung on them gave in a bought a seat there and then no not so many free seats given away!

It happened me yesterday flying from Manchester to Cork. And I doubt I was one of the last 20 to check in. I checked in not long after check in opened. Had to join the queue at the desk at the airport to get a print out pass.

I'm one of the last in the door for a game of "check in chicken" as it is known! I've had tens of flights comfortably sitting in the extra leg room seats or at least a window or aisle. The Ryanair algorithm allocates early online check ins (who didn't pay for a seat) the middle seat and the opposite end to their fellow booking seat.

This is done so, they will say, I don't want a middle seat and we're nowhere near each other. So they pay to move. Then the next time, they pay the small fee to allocate the seat and Ryanair's ancillary revenue grows further. As we know with FR, very clever.

Naturally, the overpriced seats are left 'til last (apart from the longer flights to Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, Canaries etc. from Ireland). Checking in late gives you a good chance of getting them for free.

Hopefully Ryanair will see that their proposal will ultimately lead to long check in queues at the airport. Stressed staff dealing with people who are there on time, but can't make their flight as they are delayed checking in and ultimately delay the departure of flights.

In Dublin alone there are over 20 FR departing very close to each other in the AM departure. This will add over 400 pax to the check in queues which is now over 2 aircraft all piling in and making a mess of check in area. I'll be one of them too!!

Under what law? Also it wouldn't apply to flights to the UK.

If they did Ryanair would just change their booking system so that you could only book 1 adult per reservation.

the law they create when they legislate

Booking priority boarding gives you overhead bin space plus a small bag. This is limited to the first 90 people who book that option. You can pay for a seat without that and you just have the small under seat bag. Since they limited it to 90 overhead bags per flight, that problem has gone away for the most part. It is usually selfish people putting their small bags up, when they don't have the right to, that causes problems.

I've never heard of Ryanair overbooking, and I believe they specifically deny this - but what I have seen happen the last while is sub in a 737-800 for a scheduled 737 Max (which has ~6 more seats). Moral of the story - stick with Rows 1 - 33! And I guess the very late check ins likely to lose out as well.

Make sure you don't select seats 1A, 28A or 28F on the 737-800. These seats don't exist on the Max (https://www.aerolopa.com/fr-7m8).

I know someone who selected seat 28A and had to pay for a seat again because the aircraft was changed to the Max. This was last year though so it could have been fixed since. This isn't an issue on the vast majority of airlines as they will automatically give you a new seat if the aircraft type is changed.

I don't believe Ryanair's claim to never overbook. There have been photos of manifests in the 190s for 189 seat NGs here before (so long ago they had no MAX) to back up that they do - on routes with very high frequencies and very strong history of no-shows.

It would apply to any flight starting or ending in Europe, which would be virtually everything Ryanair operate – save for stuff like Stansted to Marrakech.