Ryanair relents

Steve C Cronin

Steve C Cronin

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This link will show that Ryanair have at last stopped insisting on your airport shop purchases being pushed inside your standard "Carry-on" bag and that they are no longer included in your 10kg weight allowance.

http://www.eastmidlandsairport.com/emaweb.nsf/content/Shoppingbag?OpenDocument&ns_campaign=C-2013Q3-EMA-C175-S&ns_mchannel=email&ns_source=ODM-Email&loc=row2

However, is this also true of incoming flights from other airports? Well according to both my wife's experience on 16/10/13 and mine a week later, the answer is yes. At Corfu, there were none of the old Gate experiences of "You MUST put that in your carry-on bag sir".
 
Steve C Cronin said:
This link will show that Ryanair have at last stopped insisting on your airport shop purchases being pushed inside your standard "Carry-on" bag and that they are no longer included in your 10kg weight allowance.

http://www.eastmidlandsairport.com/emaweb.nsf/content/Shoppingbag?OpenDocument&ns_campaign=C-2013Q3-EMA-C175-S&ns_mchannel=email&ns_source=ODM-Email&loc=row2

However, is this also true of incoming flights from other airports? Well according to both my wife's experience on 16/10/13 and mine a week later, the answer is yes. At Corfu, there were none of the old Gate experiences of "You MUST put that in your carry-on bag sir".
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Flew Ryanair from Bournemouth to Faro last week & there were actual signs up in the airport saying shop purchases could be carried onboard in a separate bag. It was noticeable that few peeps bothered.
 
As said Ryan Air are the last resort to fly anywhere, they have to be worst airline experience I've ever had, and the rudest couldn't give a ***** about you or your luggage staff I've ever come across.

Not having joined up thinking doesn't surprise me at all, the fact they actually have staff who can think does though!
 
OR4751 said:
Who in his right mind flies RyanAir? :confused:
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Newer aircraft than some cheap carriers, quite often they're the cheapest by quite a margin and flight times also have a bearing on it for us. This trip home, £98 each way for 2 people including 2 hold bags, nearest competitor was around £80 dearer and we would need to leave home at 2.45am for 4am check in on return leg. I just read a book, switch off from the constant sales pitch and take my own butties.
 
And another thing!! Ryanair's list of articles not to be carried in the cabin didn't mention spanners! I had a set of small spanners confiscated as a consequence!! The security lady said it was in case I tried to take the aircraft to bits. I pointed out that they were imperial spanners and wouldn't fit, she was not convinced!!
 
pcatterall said:
And another thing!! Ryanair's list of articles not to be carried in the cabin didn't mention spanners! I had a set of small spanners confiscated as a consequence!! The security lady said it was in case I tried to take the aircraft to bits. I pointed out that they were imperial spanners and wouldn't fit, she was not convinced!!
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My guess is that you'd be lucky to get spanners on any flight these days. If you weren't taking the aircraft apart you might be throwing them at the cabin crew?
 
pcatterall said:
And another thing!! Ryanair's list of articles not to be carried in the cabin didn't mention spanners! I had a set of small spanners confiscated as a consequence!! The security lady said it was in case I tried to take the aircraft to bits. I pointed out that they were imperial spanners and wouldn't fit, she was not convinced!!
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Security have their own guidelines as to what is or isn't allowed and in general appear to know little about the airlines varying rules. I've had problems with security twice at Liverpool, once with a welder and the other with an inverter. They were of the opinion the articles should be in hold baggage whereas the airline said electronic items should be in hand luggage. Had to get the supervisor both times and he let them through.
 
GrahamM376 said:
Security have their own guidelines as to what is or isn't allowed and in general appear to know little about the airlines varying rules. I've had problems with security twice at Liverpool, once with a welder and the other with an inverter. They were of the opinion the articles should be in hold baggage whereas the airline said electronic items should be in hand luggage. Had to get the supervisor both times and he let them through.
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You were very lucky to even get to talk to a superviser! Even then they usually back up their staff member by decreeing that black is white and the customer is never right, in my experience.
 
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