Ryanair: £30 charge if you can't fit duty free in your hand luggage

[Duh_OZ]

That's about $40 in US currency?

Full read: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/feb/03/ryanair-hand-baggage

Snip:
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Under the hand luggage rules, any passenger who attempts to board with
more than one piece of hand lugage will be charged £30 at the
departure gate. If they refuse to pay the extra fee, they have the
option of dumping their purchases at the gate or missing their flight.
The hand luggage weight limit is 10kg, with maximum dimensions of 55cm
x 40cm x 20cm. As well as duty free purchases, laptops and handbags
will have to be contained in the single piece of hand luggage to avoid
the fee.
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Wonder how many will try and hide a laptop or purse inside a jacket?

[Michael]

In my experience they generally don't enforce that rule too rigerously -
I've certainly boarded several Ryanair planes carrying airport purchases
separately from my normal carry-on.

Presumably the rule's in place to prevent major abuses or people trying to
carry several bags of airport purchases onto the plane.

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[Tom P]

I was wondering more how much time they must waste at boarding gate
extracting £30 from the punters with more than one item, but then
Ryanair's idea of money-scrimping sometimes get absurd:

When you do an online check-in, you get the customer copy AND the
boarding card printed on the same piece of paper. It's great for
tree-huggers, but the result is that the poor wench at the boarding gate
has to tear the piece of paper down the dotted line BY HAND for every
one of the 150+ passengers getting into one of their 737s, which does
slow the whole process down a bit, especially as she has to count the
boarding passes and check the IDs all at the same time.

T.

[Pro]

Here's an idea.
To speed up your process
Tear your boarding pass/receipt just enough so the Gate Agent only has
to tear a very little bit to separate the two.
Easy. Simple.
Pono do the right thing.

[tim.....]

"Tom P" <tomb...@freenet.dd> wrote in message
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> Duh_OZ wrote:
>> That's about $40 in US currency?
>>
>> Full read:
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/feb/03/ryanair-hand-baggage
>>
>> Snip:
>> ==========
>> Under the hand luggage rules, any passenger who attempts to board with
>> more than one piece of hand lugage will be charged £30 at the
>> departure gate. If they refuse to pay the extra fee, they have the
>> option of dumping their purchases at the gate or missing their flight.
>> The hand luggage weight limit is 10kg, with maximum dimensions of 55cm
>> x 40cm x 20cm. As well as duty free purchases, laptops and handbags
>> will have to be contained in the single piece of hand luggage to avoid
>> the fee.
>> ===========
>>
>> Wonder how many will try and hide a laptop or purse inside a jacket?
>
> I was wondering more how much time they must waste at boarding gate
> extracting £30 from the punters with more than one item, but then
> Ryanair's idea of money-scrimping sometimes get absurd:

I doubt that they waste any time at all.

You "pay up promptly or you don't get on the plane", they certainly aren't
going to hold the plane whilst you argue

tim