Allocated seating on all Ryanair flights will be introduced from February 1 with reservations now open on the carrier’s website.
The budget carrier is charging between £5 and £10 depending on where the seats are in the aircraft.
The £10 fee applies to seats in rows 1-5, 16 and 17 or 32 and 33 – giving customers priority boarding, extra legroom and/or faster disembarking.
A £5 charge applies to standard seats – rows 6-15 and 18-31 – where passengers can pre-select their preferred window or aisle seats, with priority boarding costing an additional supplement of £2.
A spokesman said: “Ryanair is listening to our customers and responding, so that they can continue to enjoy the lowest fares and most on-time flights, but can also benefit from these recent improvements to Ryanair’s industry leading customer service.
“All Ryanair customers may now bring a (small) second bag on board, enjoy an easier booking process on our improved website, “quiet flights” pre-8am and post-9pm, and customers can now choose their preferred allocated seat on all Ryanair flights from 1st February.
“Ryanair will next introduce a “My Ryanair” customer registration service at the end of December, allowing customers to save their personal details to make even faster bookings. This will be followed by a “Share the Fare” feature, a “Fare Finder” feature and mobile boarding passes before the end of April 2014.
“These service improvements will be in addition to the 12 new routes from London Stansted airport, which begin in April 2014, as Ryanair offers our customers an even greater choice of destinations.”