{"id":91233,"date":"2026-06-25T12:30:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=91233"},"modified":"2026-06-25T12:30:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:30:44","slug":"ryanair-says-it-will-reluctantly-let-parents-sit-with-children-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/25\/ryanair-says-it-will-reluctantly-let-parents-sit-with-children-for-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryanair says it will reluctantly let parents sit with children for free"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/1800\/cpsprodpb\/d4d7\/live\/99ecd290-658b-11f1-8546-8f19e4fe30f4.png\" alt=\"Passengers incluidng children boarding a Ryanair aircraft using the steps at the front of the plane on a sunny day with blue skies\" width=\"687\" height=\"386\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Ryanair has changed its family seating policy to allow parents to sit with their young children without paying a seat reservation fee, after an investigation was opened.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cdr4zy4e1n1o\"> Read More<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Ryanair has changed its family seating policy to allow parents to sit with their young children without paying a seat reservation fee,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cost-of-living-crisis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ryan-air.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91234,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91233\/revisions\/91234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}