Advice needed on baggage security

[Steve Rainbird]

> We are flying to France next week, Ryanair Stanstead-Dinard. Due to the
> 15kg weight restriction on hold luggage I am tepmted to use rucksacks, as
> they are about 1/2rd the weight of suitcases. Is this a wise thing to do?
> Are we likely to had baggage looted?
>
> TIA
>
> John

Don't see what difference it makes. If they want to nick something they
will.
--
Steve

[Graham Harrison]

> We are flying to France next week, Ryanair Stanstead-Dinard. Due to the
> 15kg weight restriction on hold luggage I am tepmted to use rucksacks, as
> they are about 1/2rd the weight of suitcases. Is this a wise thing to do?
> Are we likely to had baggage looted?
>
> TIA
>
> John

If you're really worried go to a camping shop and buy one of those mesh
thingies that surround the pack.

[david_r98]

On Aug 1, 2:13*pm, John Moppett <johnmopp...@***************> wrote:
> We are flying to France next week, Ryanair Stanstead-Dinard. Due to the
> 15kg weight restriction on hold luggage I am tepmted to use rucksacks,
> as they are about 1/2rd the weight of suitcases. Is this a wise thing to
> do? Are we likely to had baggage looted?
>
I have often taken a rucksack as checked luggage and never had any
problems. Of course, I have never used it to carry any obvious
valuable. If a poor baggage handler is so desperate that he wants my
dirty underpants, I am happy for him to take them!

I am very tempted by the flight to Dinard and the chance to explore
the area: do have a good time, and report back on how things went.

[Roland Perry]

In message
<32e0d669-607f-47fe-8db4-cd0338f370c6@59g2000hsb.************.com>, at
04:01:08 on Sun, 3 Aug 2008, david_r98@***********m remarked:
>> We are flying to France next week, Ryanair Stanstead-Dinard. Due to the
>> 15kg weight restriction on hold luggage I am tepmted to use rucksacks,
>> as they are about 1/2rd the weight of suitcases. Is this a wise thing to
>> do? Are we likely to had baggage looted?
>>
>I have often taken a rucksack as checked luggage and never had any
>problems. Of course, I have never used it to carry any obvious
>valuable. If a poor baggage handler is so desperate that he wants my
>dirty underpants, I am happy for him to take them!

The baggage for point-to-point lowcost airlines is handled so rapidly
that I don't believe there are many opportunities for theft by staff.
They are too busy just loading and unloading it. The major problems are,
I suspect, when interlined baggage spends hours being stored at transfer
airports - where there is even a requirement for bags to be examined for
"security reasons".
--
Roland Perry

[Graculus]

> We are flying to France next week, Ryanair Stanstead-Dinard. Due to the
> 15kg weight restriction on hold luggage I am tepmted to use rucksacks, as
> they are about 1/2rd the weight of suitcases. Is this a wise thing to do?
> Are we likely to had baggage looted?

Many airports have a kind-of clingfilm wrapping service, which does exactly
that to your luggage, somewhat discouranging pilfering. Don't know if
Stansted and/or Dinard have such a thing, though. Wish I'd done it on my way
back from Nairobi - I may still have had my SLR camera.