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Ryanair – carry on luggage
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Thanks for all the input folks :) Pete, they check you at the boarding gate, not just check in!
The carry-on rules are now becoming specific to airlines, and certain airports.
a couple of years ago allt eh UK airports were strict ont eh single item rule, and it really was 1 bag only, though duty free purchases in that airport wouldn’t be counted as they were made after clearing security. It was a secruity efficency rule.
Now Ryanair have implemented it but seem to be somewhat hit & miss with enforcement.You can get caught practically anywhere now so I’d strongly advise you to check the terms of your airline, AND each airport you will be travelling through.
I’ve been hammered for carry-on baggage exceeding weight restrictions in NZ, just general lets rip of the visitor antics in Russia. A tiny carry-on bag that weighted about 8kg, in aditions to oh maybe a 10kg checkin bag landed me with a $120 charge at moscow ?!as for the camera backpack mentioned in the original post. I’ve the exact same bag, and when fully loaded with cameras + laptop mine tips 13Kg+ But since I’m a fairly average sized girl as long as it’s on my back the airport staff tend not to ask me to weigh it. So far it’s gotten through ryanair and Iberia safely enough, though the last ryanair trip was the first time they weighed it.. Stansted I think was the airport where the check-in girl insisted I put in on the baggage belt for tha carry-on tag. Trust me I was hoping it wouldn’t be too heavy. thankfully I didn’t have a laptop in it. A couple of others in my group had gone through as online check-in and got stopped by random airport staff on the way to the gate for our flight. They were made test their bags and weren’t permitted to “squeeze” the bags into the measuring device. So got charged the €30 each and yet when they got to the gate the Ryanair staff told them the bags were fine and they shouldn’t ahve been charged.
The 2 girls charged for the bags made the case since they had been charged€30 they shouldn’t be required to carry the bags on as that was effectively the baggage check-in fee.
Was in Disneyland Paris last week… on the way over no problem whatsoever with Aer Lingus… checked
in one bag between 3 or us (2 adults and one 6 year old) and I had my usual hold-all style bag that I have
flown with for the last 5 years or so and the missus carried my small camera bag.On the way back is where the problem started. Our check in bag weighed 22kg… they ignored that… then they
insisted on weighing my hand luggage hold-all bag… 8.7 kg… and they weighed my wife’s hold-all bag (full of
cuddly toys from disney… ;-) 7.8kg.. I had to check in my hold-all (for €18) which was smaller (but heavier)
than the wife’s but she didnt have to. They said there was a 5kg limit on the hand luggage as the flight was full.
We eventually got on the plane and where left sitting in it for 2.5 hours on the runway while it waited to be de-iced.
Not an enjoyable event with about 50 kids on board.What I never understand is whats the difference in checking it in and putting it in the overhead locker. Its the
same weight regardless. Surely it should depend on size only for hand luggage (within reason obviously). I
absolutely dont mind paying for extra baggage but the lack of consistency is soooooo frustrating….!Richie
CianMcLiam wrote:
Thanks for all the input folks :) Pete, they check you at the boarding gate, not just check in!
Indeed they do as I found to my cost when I was refused boarding on a Ryanair flight in Madrid once. Invariably I have one checked bag and no one ever seemed too fussed about the camera bag on the back if you were paying for the checked bag.
On that occasion I had the Tamrac Expedition 7 (meant to be Airline compliant) with 500f/4, 4005.6, wide-angle, 1DII, a 40D and assorted chargers etc. and again there were no questions at check-in. When I got to boarding gate however one of the ground crew was asking people to place carry-ons in the basket and mine was about 2cm too broad. It weighed 13kg when I checked later but the refusal was on size grounds.
Surfers, cyclists and golfers all have a charge they can pay to have gear carried but photographers and musicians, who can’t really put gear into hold, seem to have no facility. Since then I’ve relied on distributing stuff around a variety of pockets and inner linings of fleece etc.; using a office-type shoulder bag that fits basket for the bigger stuff. This is limiting as I’ve no camera bag to use on arrival and it means using the hire car as a bag (if you know what I mean).
Thing is I’d gladly pay, say, €75 to get the bag on board in the first place. Anything but the stress and anxiety of the current approach!!
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