Ryanair cuts it hand luggage allowance AGAIN - MSE News

jpsartre

Yes, that is likely to happen although I expect the number of priority boarding passengers will be capped so you should still have more overhead locker space than on other airlines.

joebob

me and the wife are using ryanair in january. we have 1 case booked in the hold could just one of us add priority to our booking to take a 10 kg bag on and the other just queue in the non priority with small bag.

jpsartre

TheShape wrote: »

Next week the overhead lockers will be a lot less full than they will be from November onwards. I imagine that from November most of the priority boarding tickets will sell as there's no financial advantage to letting your luggage go in the hold. If you can pay £6 to bring your luggage onboard rather than £10 to put it in the hold and have to wait to reclaim it at the destination then I imagine most will opt for priority boarding.

Although I guess what might also happen is that some passengers that would have otherwise tried to do with handluggage only will simply pay to check a (full-size) bag.

photome

Stansted to Alicante next saturday

TheShape

jpsartre wrote: »

Yes, that is likely to happen although I expect the number of priority boarding passengers will be capped so you should still have more overhead locker space than on other airlines.

Priority passengers will be limited to 95 per flight as I believe they are now.

Ganga

peterbaker wrote: »

I have flown them continuously for 18 years. Last year about 50 legs thanks. What you say is unfortunately not accurate. On my last trip I had three bags (probably a total of 20kg) including a large strong paper carrier from the airport shops which I have just measured for you at 42cmx23cmx32cm. (interesting eh!).

I was a priority passenger (which means no-one takes a larger trolley off me at the gate or at the bottom of the steps!) and had to gently ask passengers around me - apologies but this blue leather rucksack - is it - yes Madam - do you mind if just move it aside and put it back on top of mine? And I was sitting close to the wing leading edge and even those bins were chocca (usually kept closed and informally reserved for those buying wing legroom seats at £15 each).

Then I had to turn and ask the same question again of those on the other side so I could squeeze in my second bag. My third bag was between my feet and semi under the aisle seat in front of me.

Your observation may relate to a one-off experience or a route where Ryanair have not yet managed to maximise load factors on a regular basis. Mine are mostly from a route that is 20 years old, but not exclusively so.

Oh Ganga, I appreciate if you aren't yet a seasoned traveller, and haven't fully investigated Ryanair, you might not understand the typical numbers sprinkled hereabouts, but no, £7 is not the total price of the flight ... it sometimes still can be for a lucky few canny bookers on some less busy routes, but Ryanair is expert at filling its aircraft - far more so than most of its competitors, and if they know in advance that they can fill it, they wont be selling too many cheap tickets on that one

No the £7 is what Ryanair call the (optional add-in) Priority Charge and for most of this year, that has meant that you can bring ALL THE WAY INTO THE CABIN a 10kg trolley bag, plus a smaller handbag that fits under a seat and plus an airport purchases bag which also is not supposed to be too big. Even non-priority passengers could bring the same bags but they'd have the trolley bag specially labelled at the gate and then taken off them by the loaders ahead of the aircraft steps and trasferred to the front hold. I think Ryanair almost never use the rear hold? Anyone know?

As of 1 November it seems, that last airport handling nicety function is abolished and trolley bags aren't allowed for non-priority customers. I expect Ryanair has knocked that "costly outsourced sub-function" on the head in order to find the extra for the pay deal it has apparently just settled with the striking pilots

The question i ask was probably phrased wrong,i meant was the £7 that was added to the price of the ticket for the total journey,ie there and back.
As for not being a seasoned traveller,whilst we have never used RA we have been to Egypt,Spain,Turkey ( twice ) and Greece this year and there is still 4 months left:rotfl::rotfl:

TheShape

TheShape wrote: »

Next week the overhead lockers will be a lot less full than they will be from November onwards. I imagine that from November most of the priority boarding tickets will sell as there's no financial advantage to letting your luggage go in the hold. If you can pay £6 to bring your luggage onboard rather than £10 to put it in the hold and have to wait to reclaim it at the destination then I imagine most will opt for priority boarding.

jpsartre wrote: »

Although I guess what might also happen is that some passengers that would have otherwise tried to do with handluggage only will simply pay to check a (full-size) bag.

I imagine a bit of both will happen. Anecdotally, i see most Ryanair passengers travelling with hand luggage although I do tend to fly on city-breaks rather than to beach/coastal locations where you may see more checked baggage.

I foresee the priority boarding option selling out regularly on those city routes (cheaper and more convenient than putting your luggage in the hold) and probably an increase in those booking slightly larger bags as the effective fee for checking a larger bag will be £4.

I've got a flight booked in November. I was going to let the cases go in the hold for free but I've booked priority as I'm only away for 3 nights so don't need the larger luggage allowance.

TheShape

Ganga wrote: »

The question i ask was probably phrased wrong,i meant was the £7 that was added to the price of the ticket for the total journey,ie there and back.
As for not being a seasoned traveller,whilst we have never used RA we have been to Egypt,Spain,Turkey ( twice ) and Greece this year and there is still 4 months left:rotfl::rotfl:

No, £7 per luggage item per flight.

ic

Damn - this change has bitten me. We have a long weekend city break booked just after the change kicks in. This was the first time I've not booked a flight with priority after I flew two flights earlier this year following the last change, and found the priority queue was longer than the none-priority. I've just added the priority to our flight as I can't rebook as the price has jumped 50% everywhere since I booked, and we have a none-refundable hotel booking.

With the last change I was quids-in, I already had three flights booked that had extra leg room, so we got the two bags option for free on those as extra leg room seats used to include priority for free. Not any more!

richardw

Meanwhile over in the US of A the original low cost airline has

https://www.southwest.com/html/air/bags-fly-free.html