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Budget airline Ryanair has scrapped fees for families who want to sit together, announcing that families can now opt for a free random seat allocation that places them beside each other.
The move comes after a regulator opened a formal investigation into the carrier's seating practices. Regulatory Pressure Forces a Commercial U-Turn The timing leaves little ambiguity about what drove the decision.
Ryanair did not voluntarily conclude that charging families to sit together was unsustainable — a regulator had to launch a probe first.
That sequencing matters commercially: it signals that ancillary fee structures across budget aviation are under active scrutiny, not just public criticism.
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