Passengers clap at successful landing of Ryanair Flight FR 972 in Genoa. See 6:43 of this video.

Ryanair Flight FR 972 from London Stansted to Genoa. We fly with Ryanair today, to get to Genoa, in order to board our cruise ship. We travelled by Tube and then Stansted Express from Tottenham Hale to London Stansted airport. After a lunch at the Giraffe family restaurant in the restricted area of London Stansted, it was time to board the aircraft.

The flight was very full today. We joined the queue late so we were amongst the later passengers to board. At the check in gate, the staff gave us luggage tags for our cabin bags and said that these bags would be checked into the hold, complimentary. Reason was that the flight cabin would have run out of storage space. In the video, you can see me handing over a cabin bag to an airport staff.

We boarded the aircraft at the rear exit, as what our ticket had told us to do. This gave me a chance to take more photos and videos, as we had to walk a bit farther. We had decent seats, somewhere in the middle/back of the plane. Ryanair charges if you want to choose seats in advance. So we did not. I waited till it was time to check in online, and when I checked in, the website allocated us seats in a 3-1 configuration, i.e. my family of 4 were given 3 seats together on the left side of the aisle and the last passenger an aisle seat in the same row, on the other side. Pretty acceptable to me.

Flight was somewhat bumpy due to the weather. Before landing, the Captain told us that we had a very nice tailwind and reached about 500mph in speed. So we arrived a bit early at Genoa. The approach was a bit bumpy and when the plane finally landed, some passengers started to clap, see 6:43 of the video. A nice gesture. You can't tell much from the video but the approach was a bit scary, you know, the pilot trying to control the aircraft in some cross winds and you can feel the plane swinging from right to left. Thank God for a safe landing! Well done Ryanair. At 7:00, the blaring announcement was a bit cheesy, but hey, quite fun.


Stansted Airport - Lunch at Giraffe Family Restaurant
https://youtu.be/XxhC1UDSVNo

Tottenham Hale to Stansted Airport - by Train
https://youtu.be/DjGBxkbBwOM

Ryanair FR 972 - London Stansted to Genoa Flight Review
https://youtu.be/BPIuOnwffUY

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