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Ryanair Will Fine You £30 If You Have Too Many Carry-Ons

January 22, 2009 at 11:53 AM | by juliab | 2 Comments

Checking in luggage, checking in at the airport, choosing the seat you want… we already knew Ryanair was the airline that’ll sting you for as much as it can. But just when Europe was getting used to its crazy rules, it’s gone one further.

Ryanair is now only allowing passengers one item of hand luggage on its planes, whether that’s a suitcase or a teeny purse. Ordinarily, this would be no problem. We would just get a big bag, stuff our camera/laptop/handbag inside it to go through check-in and decant it all the other side of security. Besides, the cabin crew would be too busy posing in their scanties to even notice.

But not anymore. Anyone who arrives at the gate with more than one piece of hand luggage will be stung for a flat £30 ($42) and then will have the offending bag relegated to the hold. The crackdown comes after one passenger apparently arrived at the gate with five whole pieces of hand luggage.

Maybe now it's about time to look into travelling on a slightly more reasonable airline.

Got your own carry-on hell story? Let us know.

Related Stories:
· Is Ryanair The World's Crassest Airline? [Jaunted]
· Baggage stories [Jaunted]
· News: Ryanair introduces £30 excess hand luggage charge [Press Release]

[Photo of plane: elward-photography]

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  1. egw

    Jaunted Editor

    Five pieces of luggage

    Come on, we've all seen this particular offender on a flight and wanted there to be some justice meted out on him or her! I may have snuck on a third bag at some point, but I've never boarded with a bunch of giant shopping bags which the flight attendants of course cannot check.
    January 22, 2009 at 2:05 PM
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  1. JetSetCD

    Jaunted Member

    guilty

    I have totally had more than one piece of hand luggage on Ryanair. I am not, however, an overhead compartment hog. One time I was coming back from Frankfurt on Continental and I had like, 4 carry-ons. That was because of airport shopping (damn you, duty-free) and a gigantic, Euro-size feather pillow I bought at Kaufhof...which stayed on my lap the entire flight.
    January 22, 2009 at 8:20 PM
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