No Car Seats Allowed -- Ryanair
Written: Jan 16 '00 (Updated Jun 23 '00)
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Pros: gets you there
Cons: no car seats, pay expensive rates for snacks
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| jnbmoore's Full Review: Ryanair |
I'm one of these safety freaks who doesn't like to fly without my daughter strapped into an approved for flight car seat. By age 22 months our daughter had 24 legs of commercial flight.
We don't just bring the car seat on and hope to get a seat. We always buy her a seat.
My husband had to go to Ireland on business and we went with him. At one point in the trip we had to to go England. Our flight over was on British Midlands which was a great airline -- spacious seats, polite staff, and no problems given with my car seat. The company booked us back on Ryan Air. I should have made some calls before we allowed them to do this.
The ticket price was exactly the same as on British Midlands. Except British Midlands you did get a snack of a sandwich, juice, and a cookie. It was one British pound for the same sandwich on Ryan Air and two pounds for a drink.
The seats and the planes had the exact same layout as British Midlands. The staff at Ryan Air was younger and not as experienced.
Plus even though we bought my daughter a seat, we were not allowed to bring the car seat aboard the plane. "It won't fit" which was a complete and total lie. As I said the seat was the same as on British Midlands. Car Seats won't fit on Turbo props -- and this was a 727. It was just their policy.
So we went aboard and then the flight attendants were trying to convince me that the safest place for my daughter wasn't strapped in in a seat belt on her PAID FOR seat but in my lap. Luckily she's big for her age and I declared her to be two. Suddenly there wasn't a problem and she got to sit in her seat -- even though she's tons more behaved in a car seat.
How come by every regulation in the world everything in a plane has to be strapped down but lap babies? Plus you'll sell me a ticket for my child to have her own seat (she had her own seat on the boarding passes-- it's open seating but her boarding pass was identical to ours -- nothing about lap only) and then tell me I can't use it? I don't think so.
We have to go back in a few months. My husband has already informed them that Ryanair is NOT an option. We can spend the same money on tickets on British Midland and get a complete snack, more polite service, AND use a car seat.
Recommended:
No
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