Ryanair Cabin Baggage Allowance

bazster

Bob_the_Saver wrote: »

Have you seen them use the cardboard box?

No, only the steel frame (as above).

bazster

Bob_the_Saver wrote: »

For some reason 55x40x20cm & 10kg seem to be the 4 most complicated numbers in the whole world to understand.

I can't understand why people even try to push it. Just get a smaller bag for crying out loud. Their airline, their rules.

bazster

Idiophreak wrote: »

Oh OK, when you put it like that.

Yes, you're right...I was lying! Bwahahaha!

It was just a fun ploy of mine, to try and get people charged for taking oversize bags on RyanAir flights! (in which I've no interest)

And I would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for your meddling....

Those pesky kids...

mcfisco

111KAB

Q I have just come back with my wife from a fabulous holiday in Mallorca arranged via onthebeach.com. However, the site booked us to travel with Ryanair. At Manchester airport we checked in two cases that we thought were on the weight limit of 15kg each but they were, in total, 5kg over and they charged us £100 excess. Coming back from Palma we were charged €40 excess baggage. We then went through security and bought some presents that we put in our hand luggage. My wife's hand luggage wouldn't fit in the sizing mechanism so we were charged €50 and had to put the hand luggage into the hold, which caused my wife distress as it contained personal items. Surely there are laws against this type of practice?
Dr Peter Townley, Preston
A: The moment you accepted flights on Ryanair you signed up to the most rigorously enforced baggage regulations in the airline industry. And harsh though it sounds, the Irish airline will have given you plenty of warnings about its rules.
With Ryanair, the 15kg weight limit for checked-in baggage does not mean 18kg or even 15.5kg. But you are perfectly entitled to eliminate excess baggage at the baggage drop: the solution adopted by some travellers who are marginally over the limit is to take out heavy items, such as electrical chargers or books, and put them in pockets.
Coming home, you should have received from Ryanair an email shortly before your flight warning: "Strictly one item of cabin baggage is permitted per passenger weighing up to 10kg with maximum dimensions of 55cm x 40cm x 20cm." And it further specifies that shop purchases "must be carried in your one permitted piece of cabin baggage". Now, that latter rule appears not to be enforced when outbound at a couple of airports, Manchester and Paphos, but everywhere else the dimensions are strictly policed.
In future you may choose to fly on one of Ryanair's rivals: easyJet and Monarch also fly between Manchester and Palma de Mallorca. But bear in mind that all airlines are seeking to increase earnings from "ancillaries" and a good way to do this is strictly to enforce baggage rules. It might strike you as daylight robbery, but to the airlines it is sound business sense.

bazster

A doctor who can't read, can't use bathroom scales, and can't use a tape measure.

Gawd help us.

Bob_the_Saver

bazster wrote: »

A doctor who can't read, can't use bathroom scales, and can't use a tape measure.

Gawd help us.

Probably a consultant then.

jpsartre

Dr. Townley should be happy Ryanair didn't cancel his flight because he booked it through a 3rd party

alrk

sgun wrote: »

I have a bag that is exactly the Ryanair dimensions and will only just fit in the cage. They do check, everytime, any airport I have flown from in the last couple of years.

And make sure any other bags fit in too, even duty free. They are also now really sticking to the "one bag" rule where again a couple of years ago you would have got away with it.

Do you have to allow room for "after security" purchases? We were hoping to cope with the 100ml cabin bag size by buying shampoo etc in boots, but does that mean we need to leave space in a bag for them?

ta

terryw

alrk wrote: »

Do you have to allow room for "after security" purchases? We were hoping to cope with the 100ml cabin bag size by buying shampoo etc in boots, but does that mean we need to leave space in a bag for them?

ta

Yes or put them in your pockets.