Ryanair - One piece of hand luggage means PRECISELY that

stoneman

alanrowell wrote: »

"Standard" - ie what you'll see in a shop marked as "cabin luggage" is 56x45x25cm. Easyjet cabin luggage size is 55x40x20cm - ie a near one-third decrease in size.

Sorry I shouldn't have used the word "standard" because that can lead to confusion. But my roll along looks like most and fits nicely into the dimension box thing at the airport that EJ use and I can get a good 18-20KG into it

omelette451

dmg24 wrote: »

Ah, that's it - experience overrides the use of scales (because of course, they don't have scales at airports). Silly me! :rolleyes:

It's not so much the weight of the bags that's made this an issue: if you look at the Ryanair press release that sparked this off you'll see it's more about the number of bags taken on board. You don't need scales to count to five.

omelette451

lisyloo wrote: »

You may laugh, but we had an incident (with Alitalia) where the airline employee felt our hand luggage was too heavy (just by feeling it - no scales).
We simply took out most of the stuff and put it in our pockets and gave it too her empty for a feel.
Once we were inside the gate we then put it all back again.

Totally, completely pointless.

I've had exactly the same thing with checked in vs hand luggage with BA on many occasions. Staff in Moscow can be sticklers about the 23kg limit, so when I knew mine was 24.5 I took stuff out and put it in my (already fairly hefty) hand luggage and no one batted an eyelid.

TimothyEBaldwin

The only purpose the one piece of luggage rule serves is to allow Ryanair to charge people breaking it. It also raises the question as to what counts as a piece of luggage.

It's the size, shape and weight of the luggage that matters.

alanrowell

TimothyEBaldwin wrote: »

It also raises the question as to what counts as a piece of luggage.

Or put all your hand luggage in a bin liner when going through security / gate as the bin liner will then count as your one piece of hand luggage

omelette451

alanrowell wrote: »

Or put all your hand luggage in a bin liner when going through security / gate as the bin liner will then count as your one piece of hand luggage

If it's a binbag that falls within the permitted dimensions, fine. I doubt there are many that do though.

Altarf

dmg24 wrote: »

and my boss who goes through EMA almost weekly still manages to take everything but the kitchen sink with him!

He might have problems in the future, as at EMA last week they were strictly enforcing the one bag rule. The woman in front of me in the queue had huge problems fitting her enormous (and full) handbag in her already overstuffed trolley bag.

Paddy2eyes

Armbase wrote: »

I actually ahve a set of hand scales that I keep in my baggage. My hand luggage bag is 45cm x 35cm x 18cm and is within the size.

Wouldn't it be ironic if you weighed your hand luggage and it was just on the limit and putting the scales back into the bag put it over the weight limit.

will-he-payitoff

Paddy2eyes wrote: »

Wouldn't it be ironic if you weighed your hand luggage and it was just on the limit and putting the scales back into the bag put it over the weight limit.

You would have to put them in one of your pockets

Quentin

They usually do allow you to go over by up to 0.9kg before kicking up a fuss.