*All* Carry-on Baggage charges Queries & Questions ...

I have not flown in an airplane for a long, long time. Then, I had a small shoulder bag which I brought onto the plane and I had a suitcase which was checked in. If it weighed more than 20k I paid extra. I find Ryanair assume you know all about checking in stuff but I am afraid I am clueless.

Can anybody explain in very simple English about checking in baggage and allowances nowadays? What is checking in advance mean? What exactly am I allowed? Thanks

Irish Halo wrote: »

Generally on Ryanair there is no checked baggage as standard, you pay extra for bags.

You can choose 15kg or 20kg and you buy it for both legs on a return flight.

Their baggage page is pretty straightforward:


Their current charges are here (jump right to the end for the baggage charges which make little sense to me actually).

Thanks a lot for your reply but can I bring it down to my idiots level? Imagine I have never flown with Ryanair before.

I envisage having a small bag on my shoulder and one bigger bag most probably a suitcase or some such. First, I have to book a ticket on line for myself?
Now, what about my bags? Do I just turn up at the check in desk and they weigh them as in days past and check them in then? That is what I am used to. That's all I know. Or has that stopped now?

Or do I check in my bags at the same time as I book a ticket for myself maybe a couple months before flying? But how can I do that if I do not really know exactly how many bags I might have or their weight? This is what I can not understand. What do you mean by I can choose between 15k and 20k? I will have my own bag when I am travelling and I am not quite sure how much it will weigh until I get to the check in desk and they weigh it.
This is what I mean by idiots level.

Eponymous wrote: »

When you're booking your trip, the process is that first you select your flights and click next/proceed.

On the next page you will be presented with options for pre-booked seats and luggage. At this point you can select a 15kg or 20kg bag. If it's a return trip, the page will automatically add the bag for each way. If you're not sure how much your bag will weigh, just go with the 20kg option as it's still cheaper than having to pay per KG if you go over having just booked a 15kg bag. (excess baggage charged at €10/kg - or £10/kg in UK)

Just turning up and looking to pay for the bag at the airport is BAAAAAD news. They'll absolutely screw you over for it in some instances it's up to twice the online price to pay at the airport.

If you're really worried about it, how about packing the bag as you intend to do for the trip and just weigh it at home?

Thanks for your reply. I really appreciate it. It is beginning to make sense to me now.

Imagine I reserve a flight today for March 20th. I don't know how heavy my big bag is going to be so I book (ie pay) for a 20kg bag.
So I arrive at the check in I present my details and they weigh my bag and they find it weighs 18kg. Everything ok? They just take it and put it in the airplane?

Now. What about if I don't check in a bag on line when I am booking my ticket today, but on the day of travel I have actually changed my mind and I arrirve at the check in desk with a bag which weighs 18kg. What happens then?

What exactly is the advantage of booking in your bag when you are booking your flight? I still have to go to the check in desk and give my print out AND a bag whether I have checked it in online or not.

Thanks for your help.

vicwatson wrote: »

Cheaper to book in bag when booking online than trying to book in bag at airport, you can do it but it's dearer.

But why?

If I book my bag on line for 20kg (and it costs euro 30 to do that or whatever the amount is) and I get to the airport and they weigh it and it weighs 18kg I don't have to pay extra because it does not exceed 20kg right? I already have paid online for it.

But if I don't book my bag online (maybe because I did not envisage bringing a bag in the first place but now I have changed my mind) and I just turn up and they weigh it and it weighs 18kg I still have not gone over the excess? How much do I have to pay them for taking the bag on board? Would it not be the same? ie euro 30?

If it is different, why is it different?

highlydebased wrote: »

Ryanair incentivise you to book your bags at time of booking. They just charge a more expensive rate if you arrive at the airport with bags not booked.

Have a look at this link, near the end. There's 1 column with an online price and another with airport price. https://www.ryanair.com/gb/en/useful-info/help-centre/fees

OK Thanks a lot.
I looked at that. But at the end of the day it does not matter whether you book it on line or at the desk itself in terms of time? Everyone has to queue up and wait their turn to process their tickets? There is no time saving element to it? I just got the impression that you could save yourself a lot of queuing time but this is not so?

bobbyss wrote: »

OK Thanks a lot.
I looked at that. But at the end of the day it does not matter whether you book it on line or at the desk itself in terms of time? Everyone has to queue up and wait their turn to process their tickets? There is no time saving element to it? I just got the impression that you could save yourself a lot of queuing time but this is not so?

It speeds up the checkin process. If everyone turned up and had to pay for the baggage allowance at checkin time, then it would take forever to get everyone checked in. Ryanair run a tight turn around and want to get everyone to the gate ASAP, so a quick checkin helps them here. Plus they probably get a nice bit of interest from having the money in their accounts sooner.

to be honest, I was of the impression that the staff at the checkin desk are not the ones who take the payment for the bag but rather the staff at the separate info desk/ ticket desk.
So you have to queue twice.
To be fair to Ryanair, their conditions are clearer and more transparant than anyone else I've flown with.

And if you want an idiots guide to understand their processes, its simply they want you to do as much at home as is possible and not need them to pay for staff to do something at the airport.
So, book tickets online, book bags online, printout boarding pass at home.

The paying for bags idea has a multiple reasons, but the main one (according to Michael o Leary) is that flights were being delayed by people who for some reason (possibly sculling pints) had luggage on board but were no shows at departure time, and for security reasons the bags have to be found and removed off the plane before it can leave which takes time and messes up Ryanairs tight scheduling.
So if you charge for bags, then you reduce the number of bags onboard and hence the chance and hassle caused should someone go on the lash pre-departure and not turn up.

Roll on stick deodorant does not have to go into the transparent bag - only if it has a liquid base.

spurious wrote: »

There isn't really any need to buy a bag - I usually use a sandwich bag - it's roughly the size of the ones they give out/sell at the airports.

I dunno what brand but there is a sandwich bag in Tesco and it says on the back along the lines of "correct dimensions to be used in the Airport". All I can remember was it had pictures of sandwiches on it, used it myself, it was grand.

athtrasna wrote: »

It actually does depending on what security agent you meet. As does powder eyeshadow and blusher. When I dared disagree with a particular not so nice guy in Dublin airport he asked if I actually wanted to get on my flight. He insisted they had paste bases.

I've never had someone ask me to put in eyeshadow or blusher. I did have a similar not so nice lady in Dublin airport who didn't appreciate me disagreeing with her that mascara was a liquid and should have been in the bag, she topped it all out looking for other things that didn't belong and then told me I was wasting her time.
I asked on the way back in the UK and the much nicer lady I spoke to about said it should have been there and she'd be ringing Dublin Airport about it, she wasn't pleased they were confusing me.

alwald wrote: »

Hi, In most of my recent travels with the family abroad add on luggage were added so there was never an issue with liquids, the kids are getting older and I just booked some summer holiday tickets but without adding any add on luggage.

I am going to buy 4 of those transparent bags, once for each of us, can I remove a bottle from the bag and replace it with a roll on deodorant or perfume bottle that is below 100ml? even if the bottle isn't 100% transparent? what about toothpaste can it be added as well considering that its 100ml or below? thanks.

It's the bag that has to be transparent (and resealable), not the containers within it. Any liquids or gels have to be put into the bag.

You can have as many containers in the bag as you like as long as it closes. Each container should be under 100ml (ie you can't have a nearly empty 500ml bottle of shampoo that clearly has less than 100ml of shampoo in it).

Middle-sized freezer bags will do you fine - in my experience, if the airport staff haven't been happy with that lately they've always given me one or two of their bags that are usually left around the place before you approach the scanners.

Not sure what bags you're talking about buying, but there's really no need unless it's for the 100ml travel containers in them that you're after. (And you can buy them for pennies in the like of Boots, Tiger, Muji etc)

I am not really sure of the logic behind the one bag. I guess maybe to do with saving time if they have to check the sizes of the containers within the bags. Although saying that I have never had anyone ever look at my bag.

I am guessing if a person had two bags it would be up to the security guard they were dealing with. Technically they could probably seize the extra bag, or advise the person to bring it back to their car etc but to be honest I would say most would leave it go through.

Gatica wrote: »

I would imagine that mascara and roll-on would be considered in the same category as gels and liquids. However, powdered make-up shouldn't be. However, since there are some gel-based eye-shadows and paste foundation compacts, the more ignorant of the airport security staff may very well insist on putting all make-up in the bag. I've read before people advising putting disposable contacts into the bag too. However, I forgot to do that before and didn't get asked to put it into the liquids bag - all about who you get and how attentive they are.

The rule about one bag is quite simple, the bag has to have no more than 1l of volume; if you have two bags then either there's no way for them to know what the total volume if your two bags is by just looking at them, or risk that the total of the two is more than the 1l limit.

In what possible sense could a roll on stick deodorant be considered a gel or paste?

It's solid!!

As I've posted - the huge number of flights that I've taken since the rules were introduced will bear me out on that - never have I been asked to put it into a transparent bag.

coylemj wrote: »

How can it be a 'roll-on' if it involves a solid stick? The Sure UK website categorises mens' deodorants as 'stick', 'aerosol' and 'roll-on'. Only the stick is solid, the others involve a liquid. The roll-on is so-called because it involves a wet ball which rolls against the skin to apply the deodorant, your stick involves rubbing a substance similar in consistency to soft soap directly against the skin. They are different methods of delivery and clearly your item is solid but it's not a roll-on.

Well perhaps your and my description of the act of moving the deodorant from the stick to my skin may differ, but I would describe it as rolling it along my skin.

But that's semantics!

pudzey101 wrote: »

Hi just wondering do you pack medication into your carry on luggage or check into your checked baggage ?

I agree 100% with sundew's response above. What conceivable reason would you have for putting medication into your check-in bags?

Always pack on the basis that the bags that you check in will arrive two days after you - you won't go much wrong if you follow that rule.

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Either is fine.

If it's liquid medication it's subject to the usual liquid rules, that's all.

Medicine and baby food are not subject to the 'usual liquid rules'.

Can I bring my medication on board the aircraft?

Yes, passengers are allowed to bring essential medication and dietary requirements in liquid form through the screening points in the quantities needed during their trip. Passengers may be required to demonstrate that what they are carrying is real and for genuine purposes, and not something less innocent.


http://www.dublinairport.com/gns/at-the-airport/airport-security/FAQs.aspx

You would need your head examined to put essential medication in a check-in bag when there is a reasonable possibility that it might not arrive at your destination at the same time as you.

pudzey101 wrote: »

see the only problem is i take alot of supplements , tribulus, D-asparic acid, multivitamins etc for my own strength and fitness training program (all legal) but none of the bottles or containers have my name on them as they are bought online ?

That is a whole different story, your post said 'medication'. Bring that type of stuff with you at your own risk. You are at serious risk of being pulled over and getting the third degree. I wouldn't travel anywhere carrying that type of stuff - not unless each container has a local pharmacy label with my name on it or at the very least a logo from a global pharmaceutical manufacturer (Pfizer/GSK etc.) that everyone will recognise as a legitimate 'over the counter' product.

That's great thanks for the replies.

Locker10a wrote: »

I often forget how clueless the flying public are! :pac:

It's easy blaim everything on Ryanair :P

Reminds me of a person I heard ahead of me in a line at Shannon Airport, this man was going on holidays to Spain and he booked in a travel agents, he had no idea where he was going, the fact that his suitcase was way overweight, or even that there was airport security checks! Luckily the customer service agent was quite helpful and it happened him and his disabled wife were on my flight, so I was happy to see them make it.

Makes you wonder though, with a thing such as flying, the general public would educate themselves before travelling!

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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Pity this was at check-in.:D

Nobody should have any issue with that. Why should they? I used to do it regularly because I worked in IT and traveled and would sometimes need to bring an extra laptop in addition to my own to use as a demo or class machine. Just be able to give a good reason why you have so many phones!

And be prepared to pay duty on the laptop being brought over as a gift if you declare it as a gift. This goes for the other electronics and other high-value gifts as well, if they are gifts.