The group was heading to Italy for a climbing holiday

The group, from Norwich, were told to leave the plane at Stansted in September because the flight was over its quota for disabled people.

The airline has since changed its policy towards disabled passengers.

A European parliament vote next month could make it illegal for airlines to discriminate against disabled people.

Discrimination denied

The group, made up of six blind and three partially-sighted people and three carers, will travel to the EU parliament in Brussels on Thursday.

New Ryanair policy states that vision-impaired passengers travelling with sighted companions will no longer have to advise the airline in advance.

These travellers will also not be included in the airline's safety limit of four disabled passengers per flight.

The Irish carrier announced in what it called a "commonsense change".

At the time of the incident, the compay denied discrimination saying it was only complying with safety guidelines that required aircraft to be evacuated within 90 seconds in case of emergency.