While my Wife and I are admirers and frequent and regular users of Ryanair, I would like to point out a little anomoly regarding Priority boarding. Ryanair publicise that purchasing or aquiring Priority boarding allows one to be amongst the first on the plane. This does not apply at Edinburgh if the Aircraft is parked on a remote stand. Priority Passengers are called first and are first out the door and first on the bus. The Bus does not leave until it is full, so 50 or 60 or more non priority passengers then board the bus , and the bus parks facing the same way as the Aircraft, and the first off the bus are the non priority passengers, followed by the slightly annoyed Priority passengers. We as non Priority passengers were first off the bus and sprinted to the rear steps, unlike most of the other people who queued on the front steps, and were first on the plane and got the emergency exit seats with the long leg room for nothing.
We recently started using Cabin Crew style hand luggage holdalls , and check in on line for free and do no pay for priority boarding and just get ready to get in position when the plane arrives, and run for the rear steps and are first on the plane and usually get the emergency exit seats ( rows 16 and 17 on a B737-800) again, so a bit of forward planning can gain rewards, regards, and we can straght from plane to airport door, Duncan Pettett, Alva, Scotland.

Hi wdpettett,

And welcome to FlyerTalk! A very nice first post about a not very nice airline - I think this post will be very useful for those who have never flown with Ryanair and are looking for tips.

BTW, you've signed your real name and location at the end of your post - may I humbly suggest you delete it? Identities are important things and the internet is a very big and ugly place. Just hit the "Edit" button on your post and delete the last line.

It would be more wise for them to introduce a "Seat Selector". They would make more money, and people are happy cause they chose their own seats. Plus they can charge a little bit more for the extra legroom seats.

The online seat selector works VERY WELL with Low Cost Carriers down here in Australia^