Ryanair Discriminating against families ?

Simple
Before booking check the location of the airport and factor in the cost
and time of onward transfer. If it works out flying with someone else
is better , do so.
Flying to the smaller airports often considerably reduces the delays
caused by conjestion and the the transit time.
Friedrichshafen, Salzburg, Linz , Graz are all really quick and near
twon.

Andy Pandy wrote:
> "tim (moved to sweden)" <tim_in_sweden2005.uk> wrote in message
> news:43a008F1mb84pU1@...
>
>>>Indeed - in fact we always deliberately wait until last before boarding,
>>>it
>>>means less time standing in a queue, we just wait until just before the
>>>last
>>>person is going through. I can't see any advantage in boarding first - you
>>>won't
>>>get there any quicker.
>>
>>You will if you are flying to one of those places where they
>>check passport throughly, from a booth at the top of the
>>airbridge.
>
>
> On arrival? I've never experienced passport control on the airbridge. Which
> airports do that?
>
It does happen occasionally, although I can't recall it happen on a
Ryanair flight. Presumably someone upped the security level on that
particular day, or they were looking for someone.
T.


> Anyway - that's getting off the plane - not on. Getting on last doesn't
> necessarily mean getting off last.
>
>
>>The difference between first/last off the plane can be 40 minutes.
>>Obviously irrelevent if you've checked luggage, but I rarely
>>do.
>
>
> We always do.
>
> --
> Andy
>
>

Andy Pandy wrote:

>> It would be good practice
>> for when Ryanair charge for all hold baggage.
>
> Weight is the factor rather than size - so perhaps they should charge
> heavier
> people extra ;-)

I believe Southwest Airlines already do

Flying Rat wrote:

>
> didn't you bother reading the original post? Or think it through?
>
> If Ryanair have a policy which prevents allowance sharing, passengers
> will do that before they get to the airport.
> trying what you suggest might seem clever to you, but it won't seem
> clever when they rip your ticket up and the rest of the queue starts
> applauding.
>


Nowhere in the stated policy does it say that you can't
redistribute weight at the airport. It says you can't
share ALLOWANCE ... it does NOT SAY that you can't share
or redistribute physical objects. I suspect that they would
be withinb their rights to tell you to go to teh back of
some line while doing it, of course.


Certainly I have NEVER on any flight anywhere, in 45 years
of flying, seen myself or any person I'm flying with
be bothered by baggage allowances on large airplanes. On
small (6 or fewer seats) ones (charter) there have been instances where
we had to juggle weight ... but it always got done (of course,
charters are usually a lot nicer to work with than scheduled
sardine transport.)

Do European airlines actually weight things? I'm used to seeing
Mexicans walk up to the checkin carrying vast arrays of stuff,
on their way home.

Doug McDonald

"Doug McDonald" <mcdonald@SnPoAM_scs.uiuc.edu> wrote in message
news:dqtjd9$7i6$1@news.ks.uiuc.edu...
> Flying Rat wrote:
>
>>
>> didn't you bother reading the original post? Or think it through?
>>
>> If Ryanair have a policy which prevents allowance sharing, passengers
>> will do that before they get to the airport. trying what you suggest
>> might seem clever to you, but it won't seem clever when they rip your
>> ticket up and the rest of the queue starts applauding.
>>
>
>
> Nowhere in the stated policy does it say that you can't
> redistribute weight at the airport. It says you can't
> share ALLOWANCE ... it does NOT SAY that you can't share
> or redistribute physical objects. I suspect that they would
> be withinb their rights to tell you to go to teh back of
> some line while doing it, of course.
>
>
> Certainly I have NEVER on any flight anywhere, in 45 years
> of flying, seen myself or any person I'm flying with
> be bothered by baggage allowances on large airplanes. On
> small (6 or fewer seats) ones (charter) there have been instances where
> we had to juggle weight ... but it always got done (of course,
> charters are usually a lot nicer to work with than scheduled
> sardine transport.)
>
> Do European airlines actually weight things?

Yep.

Ryan's staff usually ask to weigh my carry on even
when it looks basically empty.

tim

Weve had cabin baggage weighed occassionally and on one flight ex
Lubeck airport, one security staff member were stopping everybody from
entering the departure lounge after check in with more than one carry
on bag (except for handbags) "stating only von bag", even my second
one which was a carrier bag must be checked in. Rechecking size in the
frame and weight with bathroom scales.
Everybody repacked and / or put things in coat pockets etc, then
reversed it in the departure lounge.
It gave the impression that they were trying to increase the amount of
checked in baggage, perhaps the airport is paid per item.

Stansted is 56km ,not a lot of difference

Following up to B Vaughan<me@> :

>>buy something cheap in duty free and use the bag.
>
>I rarely buy duty free, but I think I remember that they seal the bag,
>so you really couldn't stuff part of your luggage in it.

Nah, never happened to me. They just print on your boarding ticket what
you've bought.
--
Tim C.

><rr1980_5@m> wrote in message
>news:1138199809.337421.201820@g47g2000cwa.googleg ro...
>new rules for Ryanair passengers from March 16th

Oh dear, my attempt to start this somewhere else failed.

>Hand Baggage Allowance - 10kg - Best in the Business

Except for Easyjet's 'unlimited' that is.

tim

And from the website, only 25% of pax carry hand luggage only.

I really am suprised that it is already this low.

I'm sure that it will be higher with the new rules :-)

tim