Ryanair - clamping down on hand baggage

Bright Smile

I just got an e-mail supplementary to the usual Ryanair travel advisory e-mail re-stating the cabin baggage restrictions which apply on my next flight. They have reiterated the fact that you cant bring a laptop, handbag etc as well as one piece of handluggage. Does this mean that Ryanair are clamping down on this? anyone heard anything?

lizzyd66

Just noticed it myself. Would be very interested to hear if they really will enforce it. The bit about not being allowed duty free bags unless they fit in your luggage is a bit harsh!

P. Breathnach

I have heard the explanation that they decided to tighten up because they were not earning as much as they had hoped on checked baggage. Force more into the hold, get more money from the punters.

Baggage handlers are no longer cost units; they are profit centres. I suppose it enhances their self-image, and they go home happier.

Latchy

They can make up any rule they like and they will as long as it makes money .But if they overdo it with to many restrictions such as baggage people will get fed up and go back to the ferrys specially between ireland and uk

zagmund

It's getting to the stage now where people are choosing to avoid Ryanair rather than risk falling foul of one of their myriad arbitrary rules and regulations.

I came back from Reus a few weeks back and *everyone* in the other queue had to pay significant sums for excess luggage, most of the people in my queue had their hand luggage weighed and got a stern speaking to from the check-in agent for having more than one piece of hand luggage.

We made sure before we left for the airport that each of our bags was under 15kg and our hand luggage was about 10kg each precisely to avoid incurring the wrath of the Ryanair enforcement droids. Naturally, along the way we picked up newspapers, sweets, etc . . . and ended up marginally over 10kg for one of the pieces of hand luggage. By the time we would have got to the plane some of the newspapers would have been dumped and the food would have been eaten so our bag would have been back under 10kg. This wasn't acceptable to the droid, so we had to go off take stuff out, jam it in pockets, etc . . . and then return to have our bags weighed again.

I'm not interested in being treated like a scumbag while going about my ordinary business. Micheal O'Leary can forget his "well, if they only pay €1 fare what do they expect" - these tickets cost several hundred euro.

To top it all off the plane was late, there was no info at the gate, the queues formed at two different gates because the displays didn't say which gate was ours, the usual scrum formed when the Ryanair gate agents turned up late, one rather loud passenger had to take over the role of boarding agent and shout out "Are there any more priority boarding people ?" because nobody in the scrum could hear the crappy announcement they made, and then the crew on board had the cheek to run through their usual "As a courtesy to your fellow passengers and to help us make up lost time, please go faster . . ." - at this stage everyone was so sick of Ryanair that I reckon they would happily have gone as slowly as possible just to bug the crew out, make them late home, etc . . .

If I could book Ryanair flights and be sure the rules and regulations wouldn't be changed by the time I flew and would be enforced consistently I might be tempted to use them again, but in practice I know they keep changing their rules every few months and the enforcement varies from airport to airport and agent to agent. I'm done with Ryanair.

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po0k

It's a knacker coach service with wings.
You pay for what you get, unless you're late booking in which case you'd be better off on Aer Lingus.