A Warning About FlyBe

shoi

My experience with Ryanair is that they let people get away with wildly oversize bags, in fact the only place that I have been which seems to enforce carry on bag size is Luton Airport.

slewis1985

shoi wrote: »

My experience with Ryanair is that they let people get away with wildly oversize bags, in fact the only place that I have been which seems to enforce carry on bag size is Luton Airport.

That's not what I found recently. Flew from Stansted and they were vigoursouly checking everyone who had a bag looking remotely like it may be too big. Between check in and getting on the aircraft mine was weighed once and I was asked to prove the dimensions by fitting it into their measuring racks TWICE!!!

Finishrich

alanrowell wrote: »

Easyjet is about the only low costs airline that I know of that uses the IATA size of 56x45x25cm as it's hand luggage size

That's interesting, Easyjet have obviously increased it as it was slightly less in early 2009.

My mum got caught out last year just like the OP with a bag she'd been using on other airlines - so I went through a number of airlines flying out of our local airport at the time to check what the sizes were and out of 8, 3 of them were the same all the others were different some larger like BA with the standard IATA size and the others were variations of that but smaller in one way or the other.

Chester85

If you'd bothered checking when you booked the flights you'd notice that FlyBe operate a Dash 8 Q400 aircraft which has much much smaller overhead lockers compared to the larger aircraft that Easy and Ryanair operate

The reason they are so strict is not because they like to make money out of you it's because the plane ain't big enough

As for sitting together...you sit where your told unless you pay and pick specific seats when booking

mertonwall

Use the self check-in terminals at the airport and you can choose where you sit for free. Including emergency exit and extra leg-room seats. otherwise just be pleasant to the check-in staff. It always works for me.

Trolley bags should be banned! They get in the way and make you look like an air hostess. Much easier to use a soft small hold-all or ruck sack which can easily be forced into the hand luggage gauge.