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Low-cost airline Ryanair is to begin charging passengers extra for checking in their baggage before flights.
The Dublin-based carrier said people with bags and cases would be charged £2.50 (3.50 euros) for every item of luggage checked in from 16 March.
Ryanair said it was introducing the charge in an effort to reduce airport handling costs.
The airline said passengers carrying only hand luggage would avoid the extra fee and be able to check in online
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4647906.stm
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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gregh, Damn that man, he will charge extra for seats next 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| snowbunny wrote: |
| gregh, Damn that man, he will charge extra for seats next |
But just as long as Ryanair offer lower prices than other carriers, does it matter how much they itemise their charges? As someone who flys mostly with hand luggage only I think this is a great idea.
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It's fair enough, I reckon. If you've only paid £20 for your fight what's an extra £5 for two bags?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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hyweljenkins,
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It's fair enough, I reckon. If you've only paid £20 for your fight what's an extra £5 for two bags?
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Thats, each bag each way, and if you fly a lot, it certainly adds up
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| snowbunny wrote: |
| if you fly a lot, it certainly adds up |
Will this extra charge make them more expensive than other carriers?
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rob@rar.org.uk, I use Skyscanner to check my prices. Next trip is with squeezyjet...Ryanair were too pricey, without their little add-on 
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Ryanair's long term strategy is to do away with checked baggage altogether and allow only hand baggage. This is just one step on the way...
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I'm all in favour of fully itemised pricing structures. You pick which bits of the service you want and don't pay for those you don't want.
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Sounds fair enough.. though I still think they should weigh the passengers as well!
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I think that the worst part of Ryanair is the £1.75 per person per flight cc booking fee or £0.40 per person per flight debit card booking fee.
These charges don't even appear as itemised until you've actually paid the bill  .
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snowbunny, then fly with a different airline such as BA, KLM, SAS, etc that doesn't impose the baggage fee.
I love all this whinging about low-cost airlines - Airline is a cracking programme. If you want to be treated like royalty and avoid luggage charges fly First Class with a grown-up airline.
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Ray Zorro, yes.. you should be able to book then pay em in cash when u check in.. see how they like that!
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You know it makes sense.
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CANV CANVINGTON, some US airlines already do that for domestic flights.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| hyweljenkins wrote: |
| CANV CANVINGTON, some US airlines already do that for domestic flights. |
leta face it, stateside we are talking some serious poundage !! 
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Poster: A snowHead
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It's got to be impossible to take a skiing holiday with only hand luggage, so the poor old snowsports enthusiast takes it up the a**e again (figuratively speaking)
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| halfhand wrote: |
| It's got to be impossible to take a skiing holiday with only hand luggage, so the poor old snowsports enthusiast takes it up the a**e again (figuratively speaking) |
I agree that its impossible to go skiing with just hand luggage, but surely it will be Ryanair who would get shafted by any decision to go to hand luggage-only? I can't imagine many people retiring from skiing because they can't fly with Ryanair - they will simply travel with another carrier.
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halfhand, I managed it for a short trip  (but largely due to sharing the allowance with a pint sized daughter who used only about 4kg of her total allowance)
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Ray Zorro, including boots?
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rob@rar.org.uk, my boots yes, not skis (of course), she didn't have her own boots though.
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Ray Zorro, I wouldn't have wanted to be downwind of you! Ok I'll admit a day trip but for overnights where you might conceivably want clean clothes and toiletries.....
Many stories of boots as hand luggage and coould probably stuff a toothbrush, clean skids and socks but I'd have to wear all my ski stuff all the time!
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Oh no, this is terrible, what shall we do? Yes, let's complain! 
If you don't like it, take your business elsewhere. Go back to the carrier you used before Easyjet/Ryanair etc came into existence.
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halfhand, it was just a daytrip, but I think your first comment probably still stands anyway 
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I have just copied this bit below from a recent booking that I made.
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BAGGAGE ALLOWANCE POLICY FOR ALL NEW FLIGHTS BOOKED FROM THE 16TH
MARCH 2006 ONWARDS
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The checked baggage allowance is 20kg per person (no infant allowance)
No pooling/sharing of baggage allowances is permitted, even when
passengers are travelling together on the same reservation.
For bookings after the 16th March the allowance has increased from 15kg to 20kg, but I was a little confused about the sharing of baggage allowances - what would they do if a family put 2 people's stuff together in one larger bag that came out at 25kg (as we often do). Would this then become one persons allowance and they have to pay excess baggage charges for being over 20kg? Anyone able to interpret the Ryanair statement?
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| Ray Zorro wrote: |
| what would they do if a family put 2 people's stuff together in one larger bag that came out at 25kg (as we often do). Would this then become one persons allowance and they have to pay excess baggage charges for being over 20kg? |
Yes, that would be my reading of the T&Cs, but worth emailing Ryanair to confirm.
I guess that they will want to maximise the income they get from charging for luggage, so have new T&Cs to prohibit families packing all their stuff into one large suitcase and pooling their allowances.
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hyweljenkins,
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snowbunny, then fly with a different airline such as BA, KLM, SAS, etc that doesn't impose the baggage fee.
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I do, frequently.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Ryanair changed their T&C's re sharing baggage allowance some time ago, not sure exactly when. I booked just after Christmas for a flight to Grenoble next weekend and it was on them then.
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Hmmm, just checked with them regarding the baggage sharing aspect as we use them often as a family and I hadn't seen that condition before.
No sharing - even between family members.
If you booked before 16th March, every bag must weigh less than 15kg or you will be charged excess of £5.50 per kg on anything over that figure.
If you booked after 16th March, every bag must weigh less than 20kg or you will be charged at £5.50 per kg on anything over that.
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You know it makes sense.
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All the cheapie airlines will get round to this.... Flybe do this now
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Ryanair's long term strategy is to do away with checked baggage altogether and allow only hand baggage.
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Allowing them to use the hold space for freight, I presume.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Lizzard, they say they will save on handling charges and fuel by eliminating checked bags. But if the price is right, I bet they'll fill the holds with freight.
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kuwait_ian, Lizzard, no way will they carry freight. I'm booked to Grenoble on Monday and our flight from Stansted arrives at Grenoble at 1250, it departs at 1315 on it's return leg.
No chance of any freight being loaded and unloaded in a 25 minute turn around.
Any savings they make will be on local handling charges.
Also most airports I've flown to with them have no freight facilities at all, Charleroi, Perpingnan and Toulouse spring to mind immediately, little more than sheds !
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bladeskier, no, it is for carrying freight, at least that's what the boss said a couple of years back when he announced it.
But by "freight" I don't mean 40 foot containers, it's more business parcels/post, etc, which can be loaded and unloaded like standard baggage.
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Wear The Fox Hat, and if you had an important business document/package, would you trust it to Ryanair
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For bookings after the 16th March the allowance has increased from 15kg to 20kg, but I was a little confused about the sharing of baggage allowances - what would they do if a family put 2 people's stuff together in one larger bag that came out at 25kg (as we often do). Would this then become one persons allowance and they have to pay excess baggage charges for being over 20kg? Anyone able to interpret the Ryanair statement?
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Yes, we experienced this recently when I took three people to catch a Ryanair flight from Grenoble to Stansted. They had not actually noticed the 15kg limit, and had not been charged any extra to fly out from Stansted. Guess they got lucky - their combined baggage, including 3 lots of boots, weighed more than 45kgs but less than 60. But on the way back they were charged and told that there was no pooling. So they paid more than they would have done with pooled baggage. Still, they did better than the last friends I took to Grenoble, who found their easyjet flight cancelled because of a French ATC strike. Ryanair were still flying; I suppose they decided that ATC was one of the frills the could do without...
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no way will they carry freight
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So they're going to fly about with empty hold space? I think not. Little freight things, as WTFH suggests.
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