Both Ryanair and Easyjet has no seat numbers allocation actually. I've taken both of them frequently enough over the past year to know hahaha..... I really notice that the british have almost the same "kiasu" attitudes that our neighbouring countries have been so disapproving of us of. Long queues for freebies, rushing for aeroplane seats, rushing to get off the plane, queue cutting, rushing into the tube to grab available seats and ignoring old people/ppl with difficulties...the Brits do it all the time. Maybe, just maybe we inherited the kiasuism from our colonial days.
oh really? I took Easyjet few years back when I was in europe. They do not allocate seat number but we were issued a queue number when we check in. Later this queue number was used for broading. So if you happen to check in late then you can only broad the flight later. So it is first come first serve.. fair enough. but off couse they will allow old and those with kids broad first. Not sure about your case..perhaps they have change.