More Ryanair Woes..

dmg24

The formula is easy- read the rules b4 you book. Stick to them

Can we have this in big letters at the top of the Travel Board please?!!

budgetflyer

Copyright © 2007 budgetflyer :D

I suppose I could licence the wording for a half share of Martin Lewis Enterprises

GlennTheBaker

Well I think its absolutely disgraceful that these companies lay down rules, people agree to them and then the company applies them. So wrong.

MrSmartprice

We travel 2 or 3 times a year using Ryanair, usually when we can get their cheap flights. We read their T&Cs and stick to them rigidly, as they are well known for cashing in on the people who haven't bothered to read them.

We are off to Dublin in a few weeks, and our two return flights have cost precisely 4p in total. We will take cabin baggage only and not bother with their in-flight service so they will not make much form us this time.;)

Sadly I wonder sometimes if people should be allowed to leave their street without supervision, let alone the country!:rolleyes:

dmg24

Sadly I wonder sometimes if people should be allowed to leave their street without supervision, let alone the country!:rolleyes:

Sorry Budgetflyer, I think MrSmartprice's is more apt! x

poppy_f1

same thing happened to me a few years back with klm, they let me away with the excess baggage on the way out but coming back i had to cough up

eevie

We've just returned from Carcassonne and had to pay excess baggage for 2 of our 5 cases. We knew it may be a problem as we were all slightly over on the way out from Liverpool, but not more than one kg on each case, no charges were applied. But on return we were charged as one case was 18.5 and one 16.8, we were charged for 3kg. It was really difficult on the return journey as we had no way of knowing how much each case weighed. On check in we had a bit of a mad scramble to try & reduce one case which was quite a bit over and shove stuff into a case that was slightly under. Our hand luggage was full to bursting point! Given the queue at check in I didn't think it appropriate to start re-jigging all cases. I was expecting to maybe pay some excess so couldn't complain. I had considered paying for another bag when I booked the flights, but as it was our bags only just fit into the hire car.

My biggest bugbear is that I have to struggle with hand luggage filled to the brim to make use of the cabin allowance, whilst trying to keep the hold luggage to 15kg. It would be much more comfortable all round if it could have all gone in the suitcase.

MarkyMarkD

Your excuse is pretty feeble, eevie.

At any airport you can get there early enough to weigh your bags on a spare check-in desk. They are never ALL in use.

And then you can move things between bags to get them all under the limit.

Donnie

Newsflash

Ryanair employee waives baggage hold charges after learning that customer's baggage was damaged on a previous journey!

Yes, it's true.

She tore up the payment card and allowed me to put my baggage in the hold at no extra charge.

cannyscot_2

Bearing in mind the queues now due to security people taking advantage of cheap flights with Ryanair etc should be forced to read the baggage allowances , having stood in a few queues recently you could not believe the amounts that some people try to put in the hold. They then spend ages faffing about the cost etc etc and keeping the rest of us who go to the bother to read the conditiond, get the right bag etc etc.

I recently made a mistake when booking 4 of us on a uk flight and had taken 5 handbagge -usually 5 of us travel -I was not stopped and had no problem.-Luckily but if I was i would have paid to check one in and accepted it was my mistake.