Ryan Air Checked Baggage

MidLifeCrisis_3

Have just booked a hol travelling to Gerona, Spain with TravelRepublic. Knew it was a no frills airline and paid £20 x 4 check-in for 4 + £20 x 2 baggage as figured our kids (3&5yrs) won't need their own cases and it will be bad enough managing 2 young kids, 2 cases and 4 travel bags, let alone 4 cases:eek: .

Just got the confirmation from Ryan Air and it states "No pooling or sharing of baggage allowances is permitted, even within a party travelling on the same reservation.". This has freaked me out a bit, as there was nothing about this when booking with Travel Republic so should I contact them now and pay for 2 extra bags or can we add the kids stuff to our cases up to 15kg each?

Thanks

MLC

Pee

You and your OH can each take a bag in line with regulations, i.e. under 15kg and include your children's clothes in there. It means that if your bag weighs 16kg, even if your OH has a bag weighing 2kg, you will get charged for that bag being overweight.

jimd-f

they are not going to open the cases. as long as they are under the 15kg limit you will be fine.
the no pooling means that you cannot have 1 case at 18 kg and the other at 12 kg. in this scenario you would pay excess baggage on the 18 kg one.
remember you also get 10kg each as hand luggage

benjus

Each person with checked in baggage can check in up to 15kg. As an example, consider two people on the same booking, with an allowance of 15kg each.

If each person had a 15kg bag they would be fine. However, if one person had a 5kg bag and the other a 25kg bag, the person with the 25kg bag would be charged for 10kg excess weight, while the person with the 5kg bag would have wasted most of their baggage allowance. Most airlines would simply weigh the total (30kg) and accept it as being within their combined baggage allowance (30kg) - but Ryanair does not allow this.

What you choose to carry within the bags is your own business - so taking your childrens' stuff in your bags is no problem.

All passengers (except infants) can also take a single item of hand baggage up to 10kg.

MidLifeCrisis_3

Thanks, that's what I'd hoped, but I'd have worried about it til we went otherwise. Will make sure we travel light!

MLC