“In your dreams,” Ryanair responded to being tagged in a fake news post that mentioned the budget airline getting equipped with in-flight WiFi and first-class seats on X. That’s how Ryanair rolls. Ryanair doesn’t
care about your feelings getting hurt, nor does it care about your long legs crammed in a tight space. In an era of mechanical corporate responses and bot-esque apology paragraphs to customers’ grievances, Ireland’s ultra-low-cost carrier gaslights its upset travellers on social media instead of placating them.
Why?
Because Ryanair Can
The company has cultivated an ecosystem, at least online, where this behaviour flies (no pun intended!). Exhibit A: Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary’s public spat with billionaire and SpaceX chief Elon Musk that reportedly drove up the airline’s ticket sales.
“He wouldn’t be the first and certainly won’t be the last to call me an idiot or a retarded twat,” O’Leary said at a press conference in Dublin, stating that he took “no insult” from Musk’s remarks.
The Gimmick
Obviously, Ryanair roasting its passengers is done in good humour. The passengers who do receive a response to their complaints from Ryanair often do so to get a snarky reply from the administrator. In return, the sassiness of Ryanair’s replies fuels the impressions on their posts and ups their Instagram reels views. This gimmick—sometimes overdone—has worked for the affordable airline for years, with no signs of stalling.
how priority passengers act https://t.co/KHpxWZVS7G
— Ryanair (@Ryanair) January 29, 2026
There is one worry, a repeated one in fact, that is flagged routinely on X (formerly Twitter) by passengers, and it is always shut down by Ryanair.
Where’s The Window?
Bringing to Ryanair’s attention, a passenger looking out from the invisible window seat asked if the airline deliberately removed the window.
@Ryanair you do it on purpose at this point pic.twitter.com/iPRJNuNxPo
— Ben (@benthirlwell) January 25, 2026
Ryanair quickly asserted dominance and reminded the X user that the particular window seat comes with a simple catch: no window. This is mentioned while a passenger tries to book 11A on the airline app or website.
11A
No, eliminating the window from the window seat is not an elaborate joke. It also isn’t an attempt by the airline to saving a few bucks, even though the company CEO has floated the wild ideas of €1 tickets, paid lavatories, and standing-only cabins in the past.
(Source: Ryanair)
So Why Is 11A A window-less “Window Seat”?
The window is absent on 11A for a crucial purpose.
— Nuno Marques (@nunomar) September 12, 2022
Exploring the “Europe’s most hated airline seat,” Flightradar24, a real-time aircraft flight tracking service, dove deep into the phenomenon of 11A seats and explained the reason why the seat received universal hate.
Boeing 737-800, a narrow-body, short-to-medium-range aircraft, is designed for efficiency on shorter routes and can accommodate 160–189 passengers.
The aircraft has a windowless seat 11A, thanks to the air conditioning system of the 737-800. Two “packs” regulate the air conditioning and temperature in the cabin of this aircraft. The “packs” are located near the main landing gear. Hot and high-pressure air is then bled or taken from the engines to these packs, where they are cooled and eventually blown into the cabin for the passengers.
https://t.co/fSE8kcRiTO pic.twitter.com/SnEbsWM5b2
— Ryanair (@Ryanair) July 5, 2023
The cooled air travels from these packs to the air ducts, which are built into the sidewall of the aircraft. One of these ducts passes through seat 11A, and hence the seat misses the window, Flightradar24 noted.
