Ryanair - how can this happen? Is it a coincidence?

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I was on a Ryanair flight on Sunday, back today.
I was sat today next to exactly the same person I was sitting on the way out.

Is that a coincidence or not?
 
boliston said:
I guess some people will always have a "favourite" seat they always book.

An example is "the man in seat 61" who will never sit in any other seat on the eurostar.
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It wasn't reserved seats.

We were sitting next to each other but on a different row (and aisle ) from the journey out.
 
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Oh I can go better than that for coincidence, this is going back a number of years back to when I was at school....we went on holiday to Majorca one October, the following year we went to Malta in October and bumped to a couple who had been at the Majorca hotel the previous year :lol: what a crazy coincidence
 
MWHCVT said:
Oh I can go better than that for coincidence, this is going back a number of years back to when I was at school....we went on holiday to Majorca one October, the following year we went to Malta in October and bumped to a couple who had been at the Majorca hotel the previous year :LOL: what a crazy coincidence
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Was it your your Aunt & uncle? :D
 
OldCarlos said:
Was it your your Aunt & uncle? :D
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Nope it's nothing like that infact we probly didn't even exchange anything past pleasantries on the first holiday :lol: :lol:
 
fabphoto said:
Hi

I was on a Ryanair flight on Sunday, back today.
I was sat today next to exactly the same person I was sitting on the way out.

Is that a coincidence or not?
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No - I think the statistical chances is given by the Poisson Principle. Strange as it may seem the chances of a cluster of the same incident tend to come along in 3's - fly once more and see what happens
 
I'm too lazy to do the actual maths, but I guess the odds are something like 1/(number of sets on plane - 1). So maybe 150 to 1 or something. If you sit in a middle seat you'll halve those odds (75 to 1).
 
Does Easyjet have air marshals like in t'movies?
 
A different random coincidence on a plane. I was on a flight to Milan around 12 months ago for my work, and I was sitting next to my boss who happens to be a big Arsenal (*Cough* SCUM) fan. We were having a conversation about combative midfielders (apologies to the non football fans). My boss was singing the praises of a player caller Matthieu Flamini, and I was just disagreeing with everything he said, to the point of calling this particular player "a load of s**t". Imagine my surprise when we had landed at Linate, taxied to the gate and started to disembark, when I saw Mr Flamini get up from the window seat in the row directly infront of us :facepalm:
 
I think on my last trip, we flew with germanwings. Booked online. They gave me the same seat outbound and return, so I imagine it's not that difficult for the computer to book the same flight. Most people probably do similar short journeys.
 
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