Yes, I've flown Ryanair. I was able, as a single mom, to hop around Europe with my son. I was able to afford their $30 and $40 tickets. It was extremely reasonable. I think that's the problem. I would have loved to have travelled across Canada with my son, but the prices here are just far outpacing those things.
I get that you're talking about those external fees, but I think that a lot of it is still the individual fee that people are forced to pay when it comes down to all these things.
I booked a ticket with my son a few years ago and we didn't even get to sit together. I was like, “What do you mean we don't get to sit together?” She said that it was the way it was booked because I had paid for my ticket and used points for his. They wanted to charge me to move him, so that we could sit together. I was shocked by it and tried to figure out a way to make that work. My son said he'd sit by himself, but I said that was not going to happen.
It's just one of those things. We see it in the south in the U.S., with some of their seats as well.
I'm just trying to wrap my head around it. I know I'm out of time.