first timer ryanair

luap25

just some info please have read loads and think i have it all sorted but a know it all in work has put a spanner in the works.

My hand luggage is 55/40/20cm and weighs well less than 10kg i have no cases to checked in . Have checked in online printed my boarding cards and also sent pdf to my email and thought thats it just get to airport go thru passport control the on to my gate # and of we go..

but a so called friend has said i still need to go and queue at check in so they can weight and check my hand luggage.. is this correct ? and is there any thing else i need to know ? thxs all x

phatbear

luap25 wrote: »

but a so called friend has said i still need to go and queue at check in so they can weight and check my hand luggage.. is this correct ? and is there any thing else i need to know ? thxs all x

your so called friend is wrong

you have checked in online therefore just go through security and make your way to the gate, you may well have your bag weighed and measured at the gate if they suspect its overweight/size, ive taken dozens of flights with RA and this has never happened to me though.

Anything else you need to know?

If you have a handbag it has to fit in your handbaggage too as well as any shopping you may buy airside.

Also buy your food and drink prior to boarding to save getting stitched up mid air.

mazza111

Liquids, beware of the liquids on flights rule too. Nothing worse than arriving at the airport to be told your bag is too big/small etc to have to buy them from vending machines at £1, any airline btw, not just ryanair.

paulineb_2

Your friend is wrong, all I will say, is having flown ryanair recently, I wont do again. My case is smaller than yours, the smallest case you can buy. But when I was at palma airport, a lot of people couldnt fit their case in the gauge and I honestly thought mine wouldnt fit even though my case is tiny.

Some peoples cases had fitted fine at prestwick on the way out and not at palma and next year Im flying easyjet or jet 2, I really do not trust ryanair after that. Sometimes they weigh your case and sometimes they put it in a gauge and sometimes they dont, thats been my ryanair experience so far.

eezer

Flown with them many times and never had a problem, but sadly gone are the days when it was cheaper to fly to Dublin for tea than to get the bus into town, but there are still real bargains if you play the game.

The one piece of hand luggage rule is a bit misleading. You are allowed to take an additional carrier bag from an airport shop. It's amazing what fits into a Boots bag.

Also do your homework. Assuming you haven't bought priority boarding which is a bit of a rip off, find out which gates they normally use at your airport and loiter by them to beat the rush when it's announced. Often you can find out online before they appear on the screens at the airport.

Take your own food and drink on board. £3 for a cup-a-soup is a tad expensive.

You've done the hard part by negotiating the online check in and not buying an extra samsonite case, hired a car from hertz, bought a phonecard etc etc. The rest is easy.

rs65

eezer wrote: »

The one piece of hand luggage rule is a bit misleading. You are allowed to take an additional carrier bag from an airport shop.

Are you sure?

According to their website:-

Strictly one item of cabin baggage per passenger (excluding infants) weighing up to 10kg with maximum dimensions of 55cm x 40cm x 20cm is permitted. (handbag, briefcase, laptop, shop purchases, camera etc.) must be carried in your 1 permitted piece of cabin baggage.

eezer

rs65 wrote: »

Are you sure?

According to their website:-

Strictly one item of cabin baggage per passenger (excluding infants) weighing up to 10kg with maximum dimensions of 55cm x 40cm x 20cm is permitted. (handbag, briefcase, laptop, shop purchases, camera etc.) must be carried in your 1 permitted piece of cabin baggage.

Very sure. There are signs in both Manchester and Lanzarote airports saying that this is allowed. I've done it with no hassle at all.

Here's a quote from a bbc 'your money their tricks report':

AENA, who run Alicante Airport, told us: The Air Navigation Law was passed in 1960, however, it has been updated several times over subsequent years in order to ensure that it reflects current air transport circumstances.
In particular, article number 97 of the Law was modified in March 2011, and regulates the obligation to transport at no extra charge, as hand luggage, the items purchased in the shops located in the boarding area of an airport so as to avoid any practices that infringe passenger’s rights, and the commercial activity of the airports.

marsman802

Spot on. The airlines must not hinder sales of goods in an airport. Commercially they must support otherwise those precious slots were used as bargaining chips but now it's bound in law.

I'd love to hear stories of people using this angle to smuggle more.

w211

You could always buy and wear one of these :-)

http://www.rufusroo.com/shop/

lurkylurky

eezer wrote: »

Very sure. There are signs in both Manchester and Lanzarote airports saying that this is allowed. I've done it with no hassle at all.


And at East Midlands and Tenerife South last week.

Be careful about putting extra stuff in your carrier bag though. We once saw staff at the Gate sniff out a tablet computer somebody had put in their carrier bag.

photome

paulineb wrote: »

Your friend is wrong, all I will say, is having flown ryanair recently, I wont do again. My case is smaller than yours, the smallest case you can buy. But when I was at palma airport, a lot of people couldnt fit their case in the gauge and I honestly thought mine wouldnt fit even though my case is tiny.

Some peoples cases had fitted fine at prestwick on the way out and not at palma and next year Im flying easyjet or jet 2, I really do not trust ryanair after that. Sometimes they weigh your case and sometimes they put it in a gauge and sometimes they dont, thats been my ryanair experience so far.

Easy jet (handling agents) were doing the same thing on return from Krakow last month but not on way out. its not limited to ryanair, guess you could drive