Ryanair Baggage allowance 15kg - how strict?

madelaine

Was looking at Ryan air web site last night, going to book a flight, if i understood correctly they now charge £10 per bag to be checked in.

dmg24

£10 for a RETURN flight (i.e. £5 for each leg), or for a single leg if booked through the call centre or at the airport.

alanrowell

Ryanair Fees

£5 per bag per flight if booked at the time of booking, £10 per bag per flight otherwise

And if you decide to fly with no checked bags you CAN remove the "optional" online checkin/priority boarding payment that Ryanair will "helpfully" add to your booking - you get a message saying "You have selected our Online Check-In/Priority Boarding service, passengers who qualify for this service can avoid check-in queues and be priority boarded onto the aircraft. Don’t forget to check-in online from 2 days up to 4 hours prior to the scheduled flight departure time. Click to [URL="javascript:assignSelect('1','BAG0','0 Bags');calcBaggage('1');viewCheckinDetails('1');"]Remove[/URL] this service and just travel with 0 bags."

Clicking on "remove" does remove the cost. Don't forget to remove the Insurance as well

cheekyweegit

mobilecat wrote: »

My friend went last week and had to shuffle the contents of their stuff because it was overweight HOWEVER we went to Shannon last week and only took hand baggage with a 10kg limit and they never weighed the hand baggage.

I was in Brussels last week thanks to the 1p flights flying from Glasgow Prestick to London, Luton, then on to Brussels, with hand luggage only.

I weighed my case in the house before leaving and it was 9.5kg. The first leg of the journey from Glasgow to Luton, it wasn't weighed at all.

From London to Brussels a security guard picked up my bag and did a manual guesstimate and said, yip it's ok. Not a set of scales in sight.

From Brussels to London on the way home, again it was not weighed.

From Luton this time on scales by a female security guard and I weighed in at 10.8kg and my friend just under 12kg, but she let them both through and just warned us for future reference of the hand luggage allowance of 10kg. We were prepared to start putting on extra clothes if necessary here to make sure we were within the weight limit.

There is a distinct lack of consistency at Luton though, as I had a handbag tied to my case with just the small plastic bags in for my smellies, for ease to get them in and out to be scanned, this was disallowed by one set security guards (men), as was my clear toiletry bag which I had to empty my smellies out of to put in the clear plastic bags, but after transferring my smellies to the clear plastic bags and putting them in the same handbag was allowed by a female security officer (who also weighed our cases).

My friend at Luton walked through with her Boots meal deal no problem in a carrier bag along with her case (no juice though), and a 1 litre bottle of coke at Brussels which had been opened and was almost full. She also had a bum bag round her waist full of stuff, which apparently was classed as a belt, not a bag. She never declared her smellies on any of the journey's, which were all under the 100ml limit anyway, but nowt was said after her cases were scanned.

The crazy thing is my smellies went through on from Glasgow Prestwick to London, to Brussels without declaring them and my case was lighter, but when it was weighed, I had my sarnies in there, and a pair of shoes extra (small pair of flat pumps), I was surprised it was over 1kg heavier without my smellies. But I declared my smellies on the return leg in the plastic bags, but I was stopped after my case was scanned and had to empty it and get it manually scanned and searched thanks to a small jar of breakfast honey - you have been warned. The honey was classified as liquid. That one surprised me!

Hope this makes sense and helps.

nollag2006

Am flying to Dublin from Luton (the world's chavviest airport) next week, and we only have two bags as carry on. Can Mrs nollag take her handbag with her in addition to our carry on bags?

alared

In a word yes

brightonman123

are the plastic carry on bags supplied, or do you have to buy them before you check in?

benjus

brightonman123 wrote: »

are the plastic carry on bags supplied, or do you have to buy them before you check in?

At some airports (e.g. Stansted) they supply them, at other airports you have to buy them (usually from vending machines near security). You don't need them before you check in, but you do need them to get through security.

benjus

I usually travel with cabin baggage only but I don't think I've had to pay excess baggage when I've travelled with checked in baggage. One time at Stansted I turned up with a case I thought might be over. There wasn't a queue at checkin so I smiled at the Ryanair girl and asked if I could just check the weight first. It came out at 18kg but she just said don't worry and sent it through.

Another time at East Midlands there were three of us travelling and all the cases were a a few kg over. We took some stuff out of the cases and got it down to about 16-17kg each - they were happy with that.

I've been challenged on the size of my cabin baggage but I don't think it's ever been weighed - not with Ryanair anyway. ThomsonFly weigh cabin baggage at checkin.

davidbfc

Earlier this month, I was last to check in at Girona. 2 desks were allocated to our flight and both I and the people in front of me were overweight. The other people weighed in 2 cases, 1 at 18 kg and one at 12kg and I weighed in one at 18 kg. They started switching items from the heavy case to the light case and I started putting things in my carry-on. Both desks switched off their scales at the same time (each thinking the other could check us all in) so ours desk had to "reboot" their scale which appeared to go through a self calibrate procedure (taking about a minute) during which time no one could put things on the belt. When the other people reweighed their cases, they both weighed 12kg even though nothing had been taken out, only transferred from one case to another. We all realised that this was an average reduction of 3kg per case, but the check in staff shrugged and said "Sometimes the scales they are funny. Ryanair rent them and we complain to the airport often". I quickly put all the stuff back in my case and hey presto my 18kg case weighed 15kg, so no excess charge.

Ryanair are no doubt profitting from all this, but it is the airport, who rent the desks and equipment to them, who are at fault for providing unreliable equipment