Ryanair-excess baggage payment

scheming_gypsy

cor blimey. i bet you're a barrel of laughs down the pub with your mug of bovril complaining about everything.

Iona_Penny

Well so far it doesn't look as though there have been any irregular uses on the card , but I suppose vigilance has to be on going. I will certainly be more prepared if I am told I am overweight in the future (luggage!) and insist that cash is all I have.

Think it sounds like a letter to Ryanair will be a waste of effort and I suppase I cant prove the member of staff was a Ryanair employee.

Thanks for all thoughts though.

mystic_trev

I use both Ryanair and Easyjet on a regular basis and have noticed (on many occasions) that Ryanair charge many of their customers "excess baggage" but I've never seen it once with Easyjet! What intrigues me is that it's Easyjet who are heading the way of only allowing Handbaggage on a flight i.e. their few restrictions on the amount of handbaggage you can take on board. However - I think it's only a question of time before both only allow hand baggage and charge for all checked in bags - which is fine with me as I rarely need to!

Piggy-bank_2

I have used most the budget airlines, and suspect that Ryanair have a policy of not charging you for being a small-to-moderate amount over the limit outbound, as they then KNOW that in 90% of the cases they will be able to charge you on the way back when you aren't in a situation where you can do anything about it. They tried to charge us for being 2kg over on the way back to the UK once, but did let us repack. However, the Spanish couple in front of us (presumably on the first leg of their journey) had about 4 suitcases so must've been massively over, yet didn't get charged at all.

Incidently I have never had my hand luggage weighed with Ryanair, and consequently have ended up with heavier handluggage than hold luggage before now )...

IvanOpinion

It always amazes me why people expect more from budget airlines .. you pay a cheap and nasty price therefore all you can expect is a cheap and nasty service from cheap and nasty staff ... that has been my experience of ALL budget airlines. You only have to listen Michael O'Leary when some TV programme gets him on to explain why he has left a planeful of passengers stranded somewhere ... all he does is give a sales promotion about why people should fly Ryanair .. he doesn't care one jot. Same as SleasyJet ... they mess up and then turn their backs on anybody who is slightly irate while making a pretence that they care (i.e. shove them on any old flight sometime to somewhere).

Excess baggage is a cash cow for budget airlines ... they give you a cheap flight and then hope you turn up with loads of excess so that they can get additional revenue.

I do agree with Altarf though ... I am sure the comments were made tongue-in-cheek but people on this site should not be recommending credit card fraud or other forms of theft and decepion.

Ivan

Joto_2

Regarding the non signature on the credit card. This happened to us several times in France this year and on one occasion I handed in my husbands card in error and it went through!
We decided a couple of years ago when we had to move items out of our luggage to hand luggage to use the small hand luggage type of suitcase for smellies, towels etc instead of the main suitcase. This goes on the aircraft if we aren't over our allowance or they don't try to charge us and if we are and they kick up we take it as hand luggage.

blue_haddock

Ivan - I'm also of the opinion that when you book a budget flight you know what you are letting yourself in for. If you want nice service and a meal on the flight pay 3 times as much and go with BA

mystic_trev

blue_haddock wrote:

If you want nice service and a meal on the flight pay 3 times as much and go with BA

Not necessarily so - I've just returned from a few days in Scotland, flying BA from Gatwick. Not only were the flights cheaper than Easyjet, we had a hot meal and free drinks on both "legs" and of course, a reserved seat so no scrum!

before_hollywood

what (some of us) are forgetting here is that you can pick up a ryanair flight for about the price of a bus ticket (not exagerating either).
when i travel my bags are always well under the allowance (i'm not paying more than i have to), and before anyone says anything- i have a nationally recognised travel qualification so i know what i am talking about

Iona_Penny

Hey Guys! Thanks for all your comments. I will certainly take the advice about type of bag for hand luggage. May I just say that I think budget airlines are great value and yes the 'flying bus' and wasn't really complaining about the excess baggage just questioning how not over outbound (nice idea piggy-bank)

I WAS JUST COMMENTING ON THE WAY THE PAYMENT HAD TO BE AND WAS MADE. I realise I am quite a travel novice but have used the budget airlines a few times in the last couple of years and can't knock them for what they provide. will just pack more carefully next time (don't think I need a recognised travel qualification to work that out!)