Best place to buy cabin luggage for Ryanair.

Hi, I've just found a website for which I can't post a link here, but google flylite and you will find it. It sells trolley cases to Ryanair's specifications, very reasonable price too! I've been told by a frequent Ryanair traveller that if you're carrying hand luggage you don't go near anyone with scales, so if your case is the correct size and does not look like it is bulging it shouldn't normally be weighed. Happy holidays!

I travelled Ryanair from Bournemouth last week. I tried my bag in the Ryanair cages at the check-in expecting it to be a tight fit (it was a soft bag that was slightly over in two dimensions but could be compressed to bring it in line). In fact it fitted in ridiculously easily. Indeed I would estimate the cages are about 5 cm bigger in every dimension than Ryanair's quoted limits. The cages say that if your bag fits then you can take it on board and Ryanair tell you to check your hand luggage using those cages if in doubt, so I can't really see how they could then raise an objection at the gate even if you are oversize. They can't have it both ways, though I guess they'd have a good try...

The cages at the gates looked the same size and there were a few of the cardboard boxes around too. There were absolutely no checks on hand luggage size and some of the cases I saw carried on board were ridiculously big, looking a good 35 cm in their smallest dimension. Not only that but handbags weren't required to be put into hand luggage. It was a bit annoying actually as I made a determined effort to play by the rules.

As an aside, passports weren't checked to see if they matched the passengers faces, let alone the details submitted at check-in, so it wasn't a particularly thorough operation. Just to add to the irritation the passengers in the priority queue might have been led to the plane first (taking it on trust the others would wait) but they were still queuing for the front steps while non priority passengers boarded at the back. Still Malaga had no priority queue at all, just first come first served (it may vary between flights, we were bussed to the plane from the oldest gates, whereas another Ryanir plane was connected by airbridge in the newest ones).

At Bournemouth there is a sign up saying that Ryanair allow you to take on one carrier bag containing items purchased airside in addition to your one item of hand luggage but presumably that might not be the case elsewhere.