MSE News: Ryanair to cut hand luggage allowance

Hand luggage (apart from small bag) will not be allowed in the cabin anymore unless you purchase Priority Boarding. Otherwise it will be placed in the hold, (free) no ifs buts or maybes.

On the other hand the cost of checked luggage will decrease.

Judging by some of the elephant trunks I saw being taken on board as hand luggage, something had to give here.

Ryanair are a brilliant airline. Without them many of us would be paying a heck of a lot more to go on our weekend trips and jollies.

I've travelled Ryanair many times and had great value and service. I have also seen many p**stakers trying to blag their way onto flights with oversized bags etc. I recently returned from Portugal and saw three people whipped out of the queue and billed a hefty amount for trying to blag oversized bags as hand luggage.

The message is just pay by the rules.

Agree with zag,,all the faffing about will delay departure...its true though that the hand luggage thing needs managing due to abuse.

I'm struggling to understand why this is even worthy of a 'story'. I fly regularly, all over the world, the 'mucking about' I see from passengers with so called 'flight cabin baggage' often beggars belief.

I'm no fan of Ryanair, I've done one return trip with them to Dublin and that was enough for me, never again. That being said, I'm not going to sit here and whinge at whatever business model they choose to operate.

Ryanair are a privately owned company are they not? and they operate ultimately in the interests of their shareholders and to maximise whatever profit they can where they see fit. If travellers don't like it, then with the greatest respect, I'm sure there are other choices one can make? People constantly attracted by 'low air fares' topped up by pay for this, pay for that, what does one expect?

As for being 'separated' from friends and family through so called 'random' seat allocation, I admit, that isn't much fun, especially for families, but again, if there's something a potential customer doesn't like about how this Company operate, then find another way and if you can't, make do and move on. We've all heard the stories, there's enough press about it. Sorry that sounds harsh, but that's the reality.

If Ryanair suddenly lose hundreds of thousands of customers, then they might alter certain business decisions, but seemingly, no matter what the next thing they come up with, people will still fly with them. That's borne out by the sheer amount of people who use the airline. They must be doing something right!

zagfles wrote: »

Err, because it's useful news about a popular airline's baggage policy which will affect lots of MSE readers, perhaps?

This 'useful' news will be undoubtedly be stated somewhere in the small print of Ryanair's T's&C's and online when booking if folks could be bothered to read them.

As I say, why is anyone whingeing at this? They're a private company operating under their own business model. I'm a MSE reader myself, but even I understand that private businesses make their own decisions, sometimes believe it or not, after scrutinising their OWN customers feedback. That may be difficult to comprehend, but there it is. I'm not being deliberately antagonistic here, I'm just a realist. If customers aren't happy, then make another choice, that's all I'm saying!