Ryanair priority boarding

Surely you can join different queues? That way he boards first to have a better chance of getting the cabin bag in the overhead locker and you board as and when. You can pretty much stand together until his line starts boarding, then just join the other queue.

The sooner the better.

If you and your partner can't stand apart from each other in separate queues for 10 minutes, you have bigger problems than priority boarding.

I'm sure you could both queue in non-priority. Or just queue separately. I really wouldn't give it a second thought!

Exactlly this. "Priority boarding" then you get sent through the gate, onto a bus to stand there and wait for everyone else to come through and fill the bus anyway. By which time you're furthest from the exit and last off the bus while everyone else skips up the stairs and onto the plane

Just go in the normal queue.
Why anyone would want to board a Ryanair plane any earlier than they have to is beyond me! Priority should mean you can wait till the very last minute to board! 😂😂😂

This is what I do if I’m travelling alone.

Space is not reserved in the overheads but it is allowed for you both to queue in the normal queue as I’ve done it.

I do sometimes go for speedy boarding as DS has ADHD but tbh it never seems to make a vast difference.

Too many people are now taking such big cases in the cabin that they can’t all fit in the overhead lockers, then they get all disgruntled when they’re asked to put them in hold instead. I predict in a few years airlines will start banning any kind of hard shell case from going in the cabin, and go back to rucksacks and handbags like everyone used to take.

Yup and the minute the seatbelt signs are off they're up and down like yo-yo's getting this and that out their bag.
Just put a small rucksack/bag under you seat with everything you need for the flight, like a normal person!
God I hate flying.

Anyway OP, yes I don't understand the issue of standing in a separate queue, just do that.

Exactly!

It literally doesn’t make any difference! Just queue in the non priority queue. You’ll sit somewhere different whilst waiting for the plane to board.
I bloody HATE Ryan Air. Always check if BA price is comparable!

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fly to Dublin for 99p.

If all you want is the cheapest flight from A to B, Ryanair is great. The add ons are what cost but they’re all optional.

DH and I fly about six times a year. We rarely pay more than £100 for the return trip for both of us and usually a lot less. How anyone can complain about that beats me.

Reminds me of the Little Britain sketch where they were selling Speedy Boarding Passes and every traveller had bought one!

I hate being stuck on the plane first. Hot and stuffy with no air con and people’s sweaty armpits above you cramming in their massive cabin suitcases. I wait until last, take my seat, small backpack under the seat in front, belt on, plane starts taxiing, job done.

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A lot of people travel with their small bags now and they're put under their seat. IME the cabin crew has been quite good with asking people to put their small bags under the seat if they have put them up. So there has been plenty of space for the purchased cabin bags.

I've just flown with Ryanair. Probably over half of the passengers were priority boarding. On the way there boarding started quite early for tge priority passengers but it just meant they had to stand in a stairwell for ages until the plane was ready.

Well, yes. Ryanair is notorious for that - were you not familiar with them before booking?

If you are being bussed to the plane from the terminal it will all be moot as priority and non priority people will be on the same bus.

We saw this at Gatwick last month when our easyJet flight was departing from the arse end of the airport. They called for speedy boarding passengers - a handful or so - who got on the bus. 5 seconds later they called the other passengers. We got on the same bus, and then got off before the priory people as we were nearer the bus doors!

Most relaxed flight I ever had with Ryanair was with my small backpack and a seat
separate from the friends I was travelling with. We boarded last, bag slotted under the seat, two hours to read my book before we all got back together again at the other end. Priority boarding has now become stressful.

Potentially yes. Just queue separately. He can put the bag overhead.

It’s a free for all, and I’m always astonished by the size of the hand luggage on Ryanair flights!
I frequently get annoyed by the size of bags allowed on, that clearly would not have fit into the luggage checking thingy, and have not been checked, that then cause real problems as people struggle to fit them into lockers.

Same. I always make sure my bag will fit under the seat in front.

Well, supposedly Priority allows you to board first and find a convenient spot for your cabin bag, but people are idiots and put small bags overhead rather than under the seat in front of them so there’s no spot for one’s cabin bag. It’s farcical.

But I’m not bitter