Baggage Ryanair

sabelu

How do I add bags to my already booked flight for wednesday realise I have to pay but its cheaper prior to arrival.

alanrowell

You ring them or you do it at the airport, there's no way of doing it online.

Don't know if there is an option to their 0870 (10ppp office hours only) number

You don't BTW save any money by doing it beforehand.

Personally I'd try to get your existing bag(s) up to the 20kg limit per person & 10kg carryon remembering that you cannot share baggage allowances in one bag

afro_2

You only save money by booking the bags at the time of booking tickets i'm affraid to say! (I've been got by this )

sabelu

What would you advise?
Travelling tomorrow with ryanair want to now take baggage in hold due to security regs whats the best/cheapest way?

alanrowell

There's no best/easy way - you either phone & spend a lot of time (and possibly expense) adding them to your booking or turn up at the airport early to add them to your booking - you need to turn up early as the process for adding bags is convoluted to say the least.

budgetflyer

Lets be honest, how many times is this question going to crop up.
For £7 return you can book online.Just do it !
The amount of people who are going to try to save this £7 not book and then at a later date change their mind and end up paying DOUBLE plus the hassle.

madduck

To be fair, I think that the main problem just now is that people may have booked flights a while ago before the change in hand baggage regulations. When they booked they thought that they could probably carry on all the luggage they needed onto the plane - no problems. Now the situation with regards to hand luggage is different and there is no way of organising a cheaper way of booking checked baggage.

I always booked checked baggage with Ryanair - but then I'm the type of person who could never do the backpacking round the world with a rucksack weighing 10kg type of girl. My makeup bag ways 12kg on its own, never mind the shoes, the hairdryer, straighteners, etc., etc......

cannyscot_2

Yes Budgetflyer as madduck suggested -there are a few of us planning to travel for half term who can no longer take any liquids on board ie contact lense stuff-which we could normally pack on our onboard luggage so dilema is -do you waste you hols looking for it or pay up.

I think it's a fair question as when I and many people booked the actual terms & conditions were £2.50 a bag but Ryannair have quite sneakily got round this by introducing a £1 a minute line to do it.

Sneaky attempts to get money from us joe blogs is what this site is here to prevent -

So fair question me thinks!

peterbaker

Interesting angle for you on this:

Last Friday morning I arrived at the checkin with a 50x40x20 bag ... well actually it exceeded those by a couple of cm but if I'd been so requested, I reckon I could have deftly made it fit in the bin one way or another!

Anyway, conscious that whatever they say at check-in, if I took a dodgy sized bag to the security queue I might still get turned back to go check it in, I smiled at the check-in guy and said "What do you reckon? I travelled many times with this bag as hand luggage before the August troubles - should I check it in? I don't want to have to come back here after getting turned round by security if I can help it!"

He said (with a smile) - "You can check it in if you like". And so I did, at no additional cost!

Contrast this with the smaller bag my girlfriend travelled with on the same route three or four weeks ago and where the check-in person said "yes it should be okay as hand baggage", but then my girlfriend got turned back at security and got charged £7 by Ryanair because the inbuilt wheels wouldn't easily slide into the (different) security sizing bin without that good male-sized but covert shove and squeeze technique that some of us employ!!

That same August small size bag came back to UK yesterday INSIDE my bigger IATA+ type bag alongwith my normal weekend gear, and you guessed it - it all passed as a single piece of hand luggage <10kg!

And the moral of the story? Smile! You might get lucky! And if not? Well you've got to laugh:-)

PS Don't waste time and money trying to pay for extra bags until you get to the airport. You never know, you might get my smiling check-in friend! Even if you don't, it's quite simple once you've arrive at check-in as normal & agreed you need to pay extra - they hold your boarding card at check-in until you come back from the Ryanair Sales Desk with evidence you've paid the £7 per bag extra. (You go straight to the front of the check-in queue when you come back).

alanrowell

Contrast this with the smaller bag my girlfriend travelled with on the same route three or four weeks ago and where the check-in person said "yes it should be okay as hand baggage", but then my girlfriend got turned back at security and got charged £7 by Ryanair because the inbuilt wheels wouldn't easily slide into the (different) security sizing bin without that good male-sized but covert shove and squeeze technique that some of us employ!!

That same August small size bag came back to UK yesterday INSIDE my bigger IATA+ type bag alongwith my normal weekend gear, and you guessed it - it all passed as a single piece of hand luggage <10kg!

In August you were only allowed a very small bag - about the size of a briefcase

Since then the size limits have increased back to the "normal" (well normal for Ryanair) size

So it's almost certain the correct decision was taken on both occasions

peterbaker

Thank you for that Alan. My post was really about raising awareness of the petty inconsistencies which abound in UK airports at the moment which result in inconsistent (but partially forecastable!) decision-making:

Inconsistency 1. The Ryanair check-in guy probably should have charged me for the checked in bag outbound but didn't (lucky me saved seven quid!)

Inconsistency 2. The other Ryanair check-in person incorrectly assessed my girlfriend's smaller bag would be ok for the August regulations, but she was turned round at security because this obviously laptop sized bag had wheels which slightly exceeded the dimensions, and pedantry then ruled at security. That cost her the inconvenience of queuing at another Ryanair desk, parting with seven quid, and then returning to the checkin and finally returning to the security queue. Unlucky her!

Inconsistency 3. My larger bag always (including August) travels as hand baggage when flying into Stansted and I am sure would easily have done so again out of Stansted the other day even though with its sticky out wheels it is a bit larger than the IATA size, because when I actually arrived at the head of the security queue, (with no more than a boarding card in my hand), pedantry on exact bag dimensions did NOT rule at the poinbt of entry and all the old shapes and sizes were being let through ... fair enough!

I shall now add a fourth point:

Inconsistency 4. We all know how the security job is a thankless task and one that if done correctly would mean unreal powers of concentration for the guys and girls peering at the X-ray screen. Well the latest system at Stansted is a two stage X-ray:
(a) the main one which we know and love (you can bring electronics like mobiles and laptops through again now of course, but not toothpaste!).
(b) a new second one for shoes only. Now I say X-ray machine, but I suppose it might be an explosives sniffing machine, but either way, when my shoes went through, I think the operative was too busy standing waving calling and generally trying to attract the attention of a colleague about the timing of his break to see what was going on on his screen!

Now we know that these people can't be expected to be supermen 8 hours a day, and we know that our airport security is based on the onion layer principle (whatever that means), but I ask you - why are we still doing this in the UK when almost all the flights heading INTO UK airspace contain toothpaste in handbaggage?