Hand luggage only discussion

Mary_Hartnell

On the "cheap-parking-at-the-airport" thread, a motorcyclist says you can take a helmet as an essential piece of safety equipment in addition to your normal hand baggage??
But it was Ryanair that tried to charge extra for wheelchairs ? - so I have a feeling you might have a problem convincing the staff.

Eddie_Tierney

In relation to Ryanair and their stipulated size of hand baggage 55 x 40 x 20cm. Most hand luggage have wheels, that push the size of the baggage over the size catered for in the actual measuring frame that Ryanair place your bag into.
My Wife has been caught out with this 1 cm above, and you pay £35 for it to go into the hold.
I have since done a slight modification on the hand luggage. Most wheels are riveted onto the actual case. What I have done, I have drilled out these rivets, and replaced them with small bolts with a removable screw head. The type that are used on electrical terminals.
This means that the wheels can be removed quiet easily prior to going onto the plane. The reason I say prior to going onto the plane, is because, its never in the baggage hall where you are challenged, its at the gate, prior to boarding. This is where they are hitting passengers wallets. Just a devious way to beat a devious man!!

pebblesmax

We've done that too.

richardw

Eddie_Tierney wrote: »

its never in the baggage hall where you are challenged,

You can be challenged before you go through security.

Tippytoes

bestyman wrote: »

Tell them you have a phobia of the plane crashing and find the helmet reassuring

Dear oh dear...I can't remember the last time I laughed out loud!! Thanks so much for that, folks!

iceblue24

zzzLazyDaisy wrote: »

Yes. You have to be able to fit the bag into the measuring crate if asked to do so. I read about someone who actually broke the wheels off his cabin bag to make it fit, to avoid having to check it through.

thats what i had to do last year at Gatwick to get on a Clickair flight. The stand at the bottom of the case was a few mm over the limit, so i smashed it off in front of the stunned guards and saved the £16 check-in fee

mealeys

scotsgirl1 wrote: »

How do you explain this?I took my Ryanair sized suitcase through hand luggage at Luton last week No problem.Returning through Lanzarote, everyone had to put their hand luggage to be weighed at the boarding gate.They had set up a table with a machine for credit card payments.Guess what, my case would no wayfit in the machine.Everyone was complaining of the same thing .I had to pay 35 euros.When we got back to Luton we went to the baggage checker and lo and behold, the case went in and out with no problem.I was told that the staff at Lanzarote were Spanish and contracted by Ryanair.I told them that their checker seemed very narrow.This seems to confirm that it was.I felt that I had been mugged.

spanish bar stewards!! this sort of thing really annoys me and stresses me out before I go on holiday and when I'm getting ready to come home! It shouldn't be like this, when will someone do something about it??:mad:

venus1978

I'm sorry but the size of the handluggage need to be dramatically reduced. Flying a couple of weeks ago with easyjet it was rediculous, almost all of the plane went on the those wheely cases resulting not everyone being able to put theirs in the over headlockers.

I ended up with my handbag under the seat infront of me resulting in even more cramped up space.

Two people were actually removed from the plane due to the arguments that started up over space for the handluggage and some peoples ended up in the hold as there just wasnt anywhere for it to go.

Time for it to change !

elitejohn

is there any legal reason why i cant buy an extra seat for my luggage if it is a cheap fllight surely the weight allowance of a seat would make this a cheaper option as one seat space could surely hold two bags

chrestomanci

Best hand luggage I found for Ryanair was an "overnight holdall" from Tesco - can't find it on the website, but it's basically the medium-sized one on this package. My Tesco had loads of these in boxes, but also sold the luggage separately - the holdall came to £6 total.

Fits in loads of stuff, and always managed to travel with it. It squashes quite well too, so not a problem for the mesh cages and cardboard boxes! Best thing is - it weighs almost nothing.