Ryanair Discriminating against families ?

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, John Owens wrote:

> By comparison Easyjet do NOT say no pooling.

Easyjet may say nothing, but I really doubt whether it will let you claim:
"I don't have any luggage, therefore this other person should be allowed
to have a single bag with double the maximum weight."

I think that Ryanair is just saying explicitly what everybody does.

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Yves Bellefeuille <yan@storm.ca> wrote:

>On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, John Owens wrote:
>
>> By comparison Easyjet do NOT say no pooling.
>
>Easyjet may say nothing, but I really doubt whether it will let you claim:
>"I don't have any luggage, therefore this other person should be allowed
>to have a single bag with double the maximum weight."
>
>I think that Ryanair is just saying explicitly what everybody does.

Not everybody else refuses baggage pooling. When herself and I travel
together, we take a bag each. It's our habit to place both on the
scales together when we check in (just a convenience, because we
generally travel light). We have never been asked to weigh them
separately.

Our most usual carrier is Aer Lingus, and we don't use Ryanair.

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Yves Bellefeuille wrote:
>John Owens wrote:

>>By comparison Easyjet do NOT say no pooling.

>Easyjet may say nothing, but I really doubt whether it will let you claim:
>"I don't have any luggage, therefore this other person should be allowed
>to have a single bag with double the maximum weight."
>I think that Ryanair is just saying explicitly what everybody does.

NOT TRUE. By trimming the weight of one case down to 16Kg,
two of us were able to take a 22 kg package on easyJet on
two successive flights without surcharge.

Probably true; but the net result will be kids wielding 30lbs of trouble
boarding, seating, and over your toes in the supermarket...err...meant
the concourse... <g>

Be nice; their just kids after all!
(And may weigh little more than their baggage allotment)

Aside from this semi-jest we might conjure another valid safety related
reason why the weight of cabin stored baggage, no matter who may be
handling it, should be limited.

Tim K

<gone2lunch1@**********> wrote in message
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> So don't tell them. If your airline rep stops to ask whose t-shirts
> are packed with whose pantyhose, they're a lot more on the ball than
> the ones I deal with! The practical intent is probably just the
> opposite: I suspect they're trying to stop the argument that someone
> should be allowed 3 7.5 kg cases because everyone else's cases were
> half the maximum size.

Discrimination is alive and well, families etc be allowed to board
first if they have even one youngster, so quite large parties can have
proirority, they then hold up best part of 150 people, it would make
boarding quicker, and far far fewer would be held up, if those that
need to extra time to board, boarded last rather than first.
If check in bagage of 15kg and hand luggage of 10kg is not enough then
, then they need to learn to travel light. It would be good practice
for when Ryanair charge for all hold baggage.

"Jim Ley" <jim@jibbering.com> wrote in message
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>
> No, RyanAir like EasyJet and most other budget carriers don't assign
> seats, they give you a "boarding group" which they roughly board in
> order of.
>
I guess a few years back they didn't allocate any seating groups at all but
all the seats were pray for anyone. Unfortunately a few bad apples utilized
this and behaved as not seen every day (pushing and shoving their fellow
passengers in order to get "better seats").

Anything other than constant aggravation when they aren't yours...<g>

Tim K

"Magda" <magda@chriscross.hello> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 05:01:58 GMT, in ***********.europe, "Timothy
Kroesen"
> <TKROESEN@peoplepc.com> arranged some electrons, so they looked like
this :
>
> ... Probably true; but the net result will be kids wielding 30lbs of
trouble
> ... boarding, seating, and over your toes in the
supermarket...err...meant
> ... the concourse... <g>
> ...
> ... Be nice; their just kids after all!
>
> Why, they are supposed to be anything else??
>

Andy Pandy wrote:
>
> Nope, just a case of not wanting to end up with all the clothes creased because
> they've been rattling around in a half empty suitcase.

Smaller suitcases may be the answer they are so cheep these days

Normal procedure is families with young children , those requiring
assistance etc , elderly, nos 1-65 as checked in the then those over
nos 65.
Some gates at stansted have queing lanes, lots of the small airports
not and in some places they are not as strict as others, coupled with
the fact that some nationalities do not naturally que.

John Owens wrote:

> 'Checked Baggage Allowance:
> Checked baggage allowance is 15kg per person (no infant allowance).
> Passengers may not use the unused allowances of others. No pooling/sharing
> of baggage allowances is permitted, even when travelling together on the
> same reservation.'
>
> By comparison Easyjet do NOT say no pooling.

I guess that's what you have to live with for flying at UKP 9,- instead
of British Airways at UKP 99,-