{"id":517676,"date":"2026-06-25T12:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/517676\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T12:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:12:08","slug":"ryanair-announces-tweak-to-its-family-seating-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/517676\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryanair announces &#8216;tweak&#8217; to its family seating policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ryanair has adjusted its family seating policy after an investigation was launched in the UK into it charging parents to sit with their children on flights.<\/p>\n<p>The airline said the &#8220;minor policy tweak&#8221; means &#8220;free parent seats&#8221; will be available in the rear of its aircraft for future bookings.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/business\/2026\/0611\/1577853-uk-watchdog-probes-ryanair-fees-to-seat-parent-with-kids\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UK watchdog the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) <\/a>said it had opened an investigation to determine whether Ryanair&#8217;s policy at the time was &#8220;in line with consumer law&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Ryanair previously required parents travelling with children aged between two and 11 to pay to reserve what it referred to as a mandatory family seat.<\/p>\n<p>Their children were then allocated seats next to or near them free of charge.<\/p>\n<p>The fee for a mandatory family seat was typically about \u00a38 (\u20ac9) each way, the CMA said.<\/p>\n<p>Ryanair had insisted its previous policy fully complied with &#8220;all relevant laws and regulations&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This minor policy tweak will align Ryanair&#8217;s family seating policy with that of most other EU airlines, which responds to the desire of Europe\u2019s regulators to stifle innovation and progress,&#8221; the airline said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The tweak will be revenue-neutral for Ryanair, it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryanair has adjusted its family seating policy after an investigation was launched in the UK into it charging&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-517676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}