Pádraig O'Ceidigh
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And probably a major issue, the real catch is bin space.
Bin space cannot grow in the thing.
So you can expect a lot more bags to be gate-checked and to be paid a kind of penalty or a premium fee to put it in the hold.
And people will then have to...
wait around at their arrival airport to get that delivered to them off the carousel.
Exactly, exactly, exactly.
And what they'll have to do then be more vigilant at the gate and say, hold on a second, even though you're entitled to bring your bag on board, we cannot bring it on board because X number of people have gone through with their bags and we don't have space for your bag.
So you have to put it in the hold.
That's one of the unintended consequences.
The seating changes are interesting.
I very, very much support the idea that there's no fee for children under 14 to sit beside a parent, and the same for disabled passengers and their carers.
That's really, really important.
What happened here, Clare, is that back in the year, and fairness, like,
Ryanair were the first to develop this.
They say there's a fare of 19 euros, 29, 39 euros, but that does not include a seat.
You pay for a seat and then you pay for more and more and more.
So there's a lot of extras onto it.
But having said that, and I did a little bit of kind of an analysis and studies before this conversation now, and European fares are up between 10 and 15% on pre-COVID levels, which actually is below general inflation.
So in actual fact,
We're getting a reasonably good deal from airlines, in particular Ryanair, quite frankly.