Ridiculous Ryanair luggage charges

Thomas_Hardy

The hand luggage allowance is sufficient for a week's clothing and toiletries, laptop, spare pair of shoes and a few books. What more do you need?

It is not the fault of Ryanair that your bag was the wrong size, nor that there were engineering works on the train!

Do you know how big a 100ml bottle is? I would get a fair few months of hair washes from one!

AlexMac

Yep- The small Sub-0-G bags you can buy in Matalan or Argos for peanuts weigh well under 2kilos, so in 40-50 cheapo Ryanair flights we have only ever travelled with carry-ons- even for 2-weeks trips in Winter (just wear your coats and boots and stuff your pockets).

So thanks to those customers out there who subsidise my trips by paying more to fly their shampoo out with them than I pay for my 100kilos. Worried they'll start charging chunky people like me more however!

katejo

Thomas_Hardy wrote: »

The hand luggage allowance is sufficient for a week's clothing and toiletries, laptop, spare pair of shoes and a few books. What more do you need?

It is not the fault of Ryanair that your bag was the wrong size, nor that there were engineering works on the train!

Do you know how big a 100ml bottle is? I would get a fair few months of hair washes from one!

My bag wasn't the wrong size. I bought a new smaller bag before I packed my things. I only went away for about 4 nights but didn't have any room to bring any extra items back (eg. presents).

Virtually all my trips have been more than a weekend.

Thomas_Hardy

katejo wrote: »

My bag wasn't the wrong size. I bought a new smaller bag before I packed my things. I only went away for about 4 nights but didn't have any room to bring any extra items back (eg. presents).

Virtually all my trips have been more than a weekend.

So your bag was not the wrong size, but you bought a new one anyway, and all this is Ryanair's fault?

It sounds like you need to cut down on the things you take with you, or go back to your bag that wasn't too big in the first place?

katejo

Thomas_Hardy wrote: »

So your bag was not the wrong size, but you bought a new one anyway, and all this is Ryanair's fault?

It sounds like you need to cut down on the things you take with you, or go back to your bag that wasn't too big in the first place?

You misunderstand me . I bought a smaller bag in case my usual one would be marginally too big . I could not cut my things down any further .

Thomas_Hardy

katejo wrote: »

Last time I used them, I had to go and buy a smaller case.

katejo wrote: »

You misunderstand me . I bought a smaller bag in case my usual one would be marginally too big . I could not cut my things down any further .

Which was it - you had to buy a smaller case, or you bought one just in case? Would it not have been cheaper to buy a tape measure?:p

Can you clarify again why you feel the luggage charge is ridiculous? All I can see is someone that over packs and can't follow simple guidelines!

stoneman

But if the base cost was £82 without luggage with RA and £107 with BA and all travel related things being equal then I would have gone with BA.

Free hold luggage, free inflight food and drink, free seat selection before you fly so no stampede to get on, no one standing at the boarding gate asking me to put my roll along into a bin, CC that I can understand because their first language is English, not getting disturbed from my sleep by a loud hailer asking me to by raffle tickets/electronic cigarettes, reclining seats, and of course the riffraff tend to fly RA over BA to save a couple of quid.

Just a better flying experience all round. Even if I didn't need the hold luggage I would have paid the extra £25. But then I would probably be on a reward saver that would cost me £34 and 18K avios, and I would be in CE.
Oh what's the term again, ahhh yes "no brainier"

phatbear

stoneman wrote: »

But if the base cost was £82 without luggage with RA and £107 with BA and all travel related things being equal then I would have gone with BA.

Free hold luggage, free inflight food and drink, free seat selection before you fly so no stampede to get on, no one standing at the boarding gate asking me to put my roll along into a bin, CC that I can understand because their first language is English, not getting disturbed from my sleep by a loud hailer asking me to by raffle tickets/electronic cigarettes, reclining seats, and of course the riffraff tend to fly RA over BA to save a couple of quid.

Just a better flying experience all round. Even if I didn't need the hold luggage I would have paid the extra £25. But then I would probably be on a reward saver that would cost me £34 and 18K avios, and I would be in CE.
Oh what's the term again, ahhh yes "no brainier"

As my previous posts have pointed out though things are seldom equal.

Its rare you would find an airport that serves ryanair and ba and even those that do tend to fly to different airports, for example ba fly to a airport further from gothenburg city than ryanair do.

I for example would have to drive 3 hours to get to LHR or I can drive to STN in less than an hour or SEN in about 10mins if I want to use easyjet so time and cost of fuel etc is a factor there.

As far as claiming that "the riffraff tend to fly RA over BA to save a couple of quid" I would hope this was written tongue in cheek oddly in my previous posting I often saw multi millionaires stepping off ryanair flights.

Despite your claim of "free hold lugagge" its not free really its just factored into the cost of every ticket so even if you dont check a bag in you are paying for the service anyway, hell i'd check an empty bag in on principle!

Of course, as you state, all things being equal, anyone would choose BA over RA but as we all know some are more equal than others.

YorkshireBoy

stoneman wrote: »

Free hold luggage

OP paid (the equivalent of) £12.50 each way didn't they?

free inflight food and drink

Took a couple of ham sandwiches (£1.50) and bought a 3 euro coffee earlier this month when I flew LBA/ACE. Won't lose any sleep over that!

free seat selection before you fly

I'm not bothered where I sit.

no stampede to get on

Didn't see a stampede at LBA or ACE, or at MAN/REU last September...the only other time I've flown Ryanair.

no one standing at the boarding gate asking me to put my roll along into a bin

My "roll along" measures 55 x 40 x 20 cm, and is packed so it doesn't bulge. Unsurprisingly I was waived straight through.

CC that I can understand because their first language is English

The crew on my flight were Irish, and perfectly understandable. The only words they spoke to me personally were "3 euros please".

not getting disturbed from my sleep by a loud hailer asking me to by raffle tickets/electronic cigarettes

I don't recall being disturbed during my 2 hour kip on the 4 hour flight.

reclining seats

I don't want someone's seat back in my face.

and of course the riffraff tend to fly RA over BA to save a couple of quid.

Didn't see any 'chavs' on my flight.

katejo

stoneman wrote: »

But if the base cost was £82 without luggage with RA and £107 with BA and all travel related things being equal then I would have gone with BA.

Free hold luggage, free inflight food and drink, free seat selection before you fly so no stampede to get on, no one standing at the boarding gate asking me to put my roll along into a bin, CC that I can understand because their first language is English, not getting disturbed from my sleep by a loud hailer asking me to by raffle tickets/electronic cigarettes, reclining seats, and of course the riffraff tend to fly RA over BA to save a couple of quid.

Just a better flying experience all round. Even if I didn't need the hold luggage I would have paid the extra £25. But then I would probably be on a reward saver that would cost me £34 and 18K avios, and I would be in CE.
Oh what's the term again, ahhh yes "no brainier"

Thanks for some support! At the time when I booked, RA would have cost me £132 with a small case checked in while BA was £107.My last return flight was with BA though and so many people had their bags with them that all the space was jammed full.