Letting slower passengers board airplane first is faster, study finds

Re:Letting slower passengers board airplane first is faster,... by londons_explore on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @05:21PM (#22059439)

Ryanair has pretty much given up enforcing seat allocations. Sure, your boarding pass might say one seat number, but it's pretty much a "sit in any free seat" policy. 90% of the time when i get on the plane someone else is in my seat, so I'm forced to sit in a random seat, giving someone else the exact same issue.

The staff know that getting everyone back into the correct seats will take a massive effort, so don't bother.

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Re:Letting slower passengers board airplane first is faster,... by shpongled on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @07:55PM (#22060630)

You tell the person to get out of the seat you paid for.

I strongly prefer aisle seats. I once had a girl ask me to switch seats with her so that she could sit next to her boyfriend. Since she had a middle seat, I politely declined, explaining that I would only switch with another aisle seat. She proceeded to throw a fit, calling me an asshole, etc, etc. I paid extra (how have we even come to this?) to be able to pick my seat, I'm not going to give it up for free.

Don't let people bully you.

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Re:Letting slower passengers board airplane first is faster,... by Freak_NL on Thursday January 16, 2020 @04:31AM (#22062946)

At some point you will either have to escalate or give up. Some people won't be convinced, and can't be badgered into obeying you, and they know that you have no recourse at all as long as they remain seated and ignore you.

If the local authority (flight attendants) won't back you up, you are at the discretion of whoever is hogging your seat. Any display of power over the other usually amounts to potentially being able to resort to violence if necessary to back up your power. The person in the seat know full well that you cannot do that without being forced to leave the plane, so they have effectively nothing to fear from you.

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Re:Letting slower passengers board airplane first is faster,... by shpongled on Thursday January 16, 2020 @12:08PM (#22066483)

If the flight attendants aren't enforcing seating then I'll go plop myself down in an exit row or first class

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Re:Letting slower passengers board airplane first is faster,... by bigwavedave on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @06:44PM (#22060130)

The great thing about being assertive is that you get to sit in the seat you paid for.

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Re:Letting slower passengers board airplane first is faster,... by tristor on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @05:52PM (#22059704)

This is just one of many reasons that nobody should ever fly RyanAir.

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Re:Letting slower passengers board airplane first is faster,... by gchadwick on Thursday January 16, 2020 @02:45AM (#22062429)

> Ryanair has pretty much given up enforcing seat allocations.

Haven't been on a Ryanair flight for a while but this certainly didn't seem to be the case when I was flying with them regularly. Was this something that's changed very recently or maybe it's only certain routes this happens on?

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Re:Letting slower passengers board airplane first is faster,... by benhurmarcel on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @05:36PM (#22059580)

My experience is that yes there's lots of shuffling around, but people politely ask others if they accept to change seats.

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