Ryanair - no food in hand luggage?

spurious

I don't fly with Ryanair myself, for a growing number of reasons, but this weekend I had some German visitors who flew here with them. They had bought a loaf of German Kurbiskernbrot (pumpkin seed bread) as a present for me. As is the custom in Germany, it was wrapped in light tissue paper by the bakery.

It was taken off them and they were told 'food' was not allowed in hand luggage on Ryanair flights. Is this a new policy, or were they just unlucky? Anyone know? It didn't seem to apply to the chocolate bars they had for themselves.

jhegarty

Ryanair don't check your bags , so it sounds more like airport security to me (perhaps all those poppyseeds set off some scanner ;-))

Danbo!

They forgot to buy you the bread, didnt they?

spurious

Thanks for the reply. It may well have set off something, but wouldn't you think they'd be used to it.

/me has visions of them all scoffing my lovely bread on their tea break (shakes fist angrily)

spurious

noblestee wrote: »

They forgot to buy you the bread, didnt they?

:eek:
My world view is shattered.:)

snickerpuss

I bought some toblerones in Paris, in CDG airport, before I checked in and the lady basically told me I had to eat them all before I got on the plane or throw them out. Why on earth do they sell all that stuff then? Who would buy boxes of chocolates and cheese and eat them before the flight? Anyway, I ignored her and security didn't care.

Huzzah!

axer

I fly very often with Ryanair, actually last flew 7/8 days ago (Dublin-Berlin and 5 days before that was Berlin-Dublin) and I always bring a packed lunch with me (Some good aul' ham sandwiches). I have never had a problem yet. I also always sit in the front row of the plane (when I get those seats) right in front of the cabin crew eating my sandwiches and I have never either gotten a stare from them nor have they ever said anything about it to me.

Me thinks the germans were telling you some Lügen.

robinph

Ryanair don't give a crap what you bring on the plane with you. Various forms of "security" around Europe have slight variations on their translations of the current regulations, and then individual personnel at the checkpoints will either be having a good day or not so may decide to makle you day bad for a laugh.

This has nothing whatsoever to do with Ryanair though, other than that was the name printed on the plane they happened to get on after the sausage was taken off them.

Completely seperate from the "security" though, I think there are still restrictions on what meat products you are allowed to bring into Ireland after the various foot and mouth break outs elsewhere.

ScouseMouse

This surprises me. On a recent trip from Dublin to Liverpool with Ryanair, security in dublin noticed two large denny white puddings in my bag. I opened it and the girl laughed, she had never seen one that big ! I kid you not. These were catering white puddings that are about 10 inches long.

I closed my bag and went on my way. no problems.

mikedragon32

noblestee wrote:

They forgot to buy you the bread, didnt they?

That's what I was thinking.

I've used that excuse before too... That and the old "my bags were already too heavy so I had to leave it behind" excuse work a treat.

(nobody I'd be supposed to be bringing gifts for read this site)

dohouch

read this just yesterday and couldn't resist!
Can I bring my own food onboard?

Passengers are welcome to bring their own food on board, however, in the interest of safety passengers are prohibited from carrying hot drinks on board.

http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/faqs.php?sect=inf&quest=bringfood

Hagar

dohouch wrote: »

Passengers are welcome to bring their own food on board, however, in the interest of safety passengers are prohibited from carrying hot drinks on board.

But they serve you tea or coffee on board don't they? Special safe tea or coffee I presume.

I'm bringing a pot of coddle next time.

MarkR

Maybe it was the seeds on the bread they had an issue with?

axer

Hagar wrote: »

But they serve you tea or coffee on board don't they? Special safe tea or coffee I presume.

I think they just dont want people people walking onto the plane holding a paper cup of coffee whilst trying to get a seat and put the bags in the overhead lockers - all recipe for a burning. I'd say you could bring a flask in your bag if you really wanted to and say nothing.

dohouch

axer wrote: »

I'd say you could bring a flask in your bag if you really wanted to and say nothing.

:pac: Would that be a flask of less than 100ml?

Cabin Baggage Allowance
Only gels, pastes, lotions and liquid cosmetics in containers of 100mls or less will be permitted
http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/faqs.php?sect=bag&quest=cabinbaggageallowance

axer

dohouch wrote: »

:pac: Would that be a flask of less than 100ml?

You could bring teabags through security and make the tea the other side although some do charge for the hot water.

lynchie

Never had an issue carrying food on any airline before. I regularly carry large amounts of sausages / pudding to Glasgow with me and have never had any issues bar one security guy who after checking my bag couldn't stop laughing at me. I don't think there is any issues bringing solid foods through security in EU airports.

axer

lynchie wrote: »

Never had an issue carrying food on any airline before. I regularly carry large amounts of sausages / pudding to Glasgow with me and have never had any issues bar one security guy who after checking my bag couldn't stop laughing at me. I don't think there is any issues bringing solid foods through security in EU airports.

I even brought Bachelors baked beans through with no problems which I thought would be a problem since there is liquid in the tins but it was no problem.

robinph

Hagar wrote: »

But they serve you tea or coffee on board don't they?

Not during take off they don't though.

Woden

dohouch wrote: »

read this just yesterday and couldn't resist!
Can I bring my own food onboard?

Passengers are welcome to bring their own food on board, however, in the interest of safety passengers are prohibited from carrying hot drinks on board.

http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/faqs.php?sect=inf&quest=bringfood

Ah interesting I was stopped for this before and was wondering what the deal was with it and whether they where just being *****.

What I want to know though is. What is the deal with seemingly randomly closing off the first X rows of seats or last Y rows etc. Some safety thing?

enda1

Woden wrote: »

Ah interesting I was stopped for this before and was wondering what the deal was with it and whether they where just being *****.

What I want to know though is. What is the deal with seemingly randomly closing off the first X rows of seats or last Y rows etc. Some safety thing?

Probably because they know its not fully booked and they want to keep everyone in one section. Less top clean etc. when flights over and easier for flight crew to serve drinks etc.?

robinph

Woden wrote: »

What I want to know though is. What is the deal with seemingly randomly closing off the first X rows of seats or last Y rows etc. Some safety thing?

It's to do with balancing the plane properly.

mikedragon32

robinph wrote: »

It's to do with balancing the plane properly.

That's what they tell you.

I'm pretty sure it's bull.

Fratton Fred

If the planes not full, i think they like to have a few seats to seat people who need to sit together. I have seen families with small children sit there before rather than the crew have to start moving people around.

robinph

mikedragon32 wrote: »

That's what they tell you.

I'm pretty sure it's bull.

What would the conspiracy theory type reason for it be then?

Another possiblity is to make the loading of the planes quicker. The seats at the front being more favourable to sit in inorder to make a quick exit, so they block these off and so people move further down the cabin quicker and they save a couple of minutes in loading. Row 1 will generally only be taken up by very frequent fliers who will not tend to hold things up in the loading as much as a family will so they will leave that row unblocked though.

Depending on where I'm flying to I'll go for the very back seats as you can get off pretty quick from there, some airports are slow at bringing the rear steps up though so then being in the front rows is best for the quicker exit.

Dodge

Fratton Fred wrote: »

If the planes not full, i think they like to have a few seats to seat people who need to sit together. I have seen families with small children sit there before rather than the crew have to start moving people around.

I've seen this happen.