Flying with Ryanair soon.....Any advice??!

Slimbert

Slimbert

Suspended / Banned
Messages
6,914
Name
Damien
Edit My Images
Yes
I usually use easyjet as my "budget" airline, but in a couple of weeks time I'm using Ryanair for the first time to go on my honeymoon.

Anyone have any advice or things to watch out for?

I believe the hand luggage allowance is 5kgs each which should be fine for my camera gear, sat nav, phone etc and the hold allowance is 20kgs each, and we should be comfortably under that......

My main worries are the self check in desks at the airport and what I need to do before we set off with the online check in......

Any advice at all is gratefully received!!!:thumbs:
 
I fly Ryanair too regularly and soon enough you will come to appreciate the luxury that is easy jet. If I remember rightly you can take 10kg hand luggage (I've never had it weighed once) and only 15kg hold luggage. For every kilo over they charge you £15.

Weigh your bags before you go, nobody likes you when you hold up the queue trying to re-shuffle the contents of your cases to save yourself the excess fees.

Online check in is easy and the actual check in depends on the airport. You still have to queue up, show your passport and your printout from your online check in and have it all checked before handing your bags in. It's another Ryanair scam to get more money out of you under the pretence that it cuts costs and speeds things up and is all for your benefit.

Do yourself a favour and pay for priority boarding, it doesn't costs that much and is worth every penny as you bypass all the chavs jostling for position at the boarding gate and bag yourself a seat with extra legroom.

As a company we're trying to actively avoid using Ryanair now, they're not that cheap and it's just a misery to travel with them.
 
Last edited:
get to the gate as early as possible as half the flight will be "priority boarding"
take food, drink as they will relieve you of one arm and one leg for each!

oh and STAY CALM!!!!!!!!!!!!:bang:
 
Kev M said:
I fly Ryanair too regularly and soon enough you will come to appreciate the luxury that is easy jet. If I remember rightly you can take 10kg hand luggage (I've never had it weighed once) and only 15kg hold luggage. For every kilo over they charge you £15.

Weigh your bags before you go, nobody likes you when you hold up the queue trying to re-shuffle the contents of your cases to save yourself the excess fees.

Online check in is easy and the actual check in depends on the airport. You still have to queue up, show your passport and your printout from your online check in and have it all checked before handing your bags in. It's another Ryanair scam to get more money out of you under the pretence that it cuts costs and speeds things up and is all for your benefit.

Do yourself a favour and pay for priority boarding, it doesn't costs that much and is worth every penny as you bypass all the chavs jostling for position at the boarding gate and bag yourself a seat with extra legroom.

As a company we're trying to actively avoid using Ryanair now, they're not that cheap and it's just a misery to travel with them.
Click to expand...

Thanks for the advice!

I did book priority boarding, in the hope that I might get a seat with a bit of extra room (I'm a little over 6ft) but it's only a two hour flight (stansted to palma mallorca) so I'll be ok if not. Easyjet do the same thing and I always pay the extra fiver or whatever it is....

The 10 kilo hand luggage works in my favour as I'll be taking my Kata backpack which I can fit plenty of stuff in. Not sure my wife will be too happy with the 15kgs in her suitcase though!!!
 
mmcp42 said:
get to the gate as early as possible as half the flight will be "priority boarding"
take food, drink as they will relieve you of one arm and one leg for each!

oh and STAY CALM!!!!!!!!!!!!:bang:
Click to expand...

Thanks for the tips!:thumbs:

I'll make the effort to eat before we get to the airport as I've never been impressed with airport/airplane food anyway!!
 
I'm always impressed they can land and take off again in 20 minutes. The damn seats are still warm when you get on!:)
 
mercedes said:
I'm always impressed they can land and take off again in 20 minutes. The damn seats are still warm when you get on!:)
Click to expand...

I believe the seats are often warm with sick, with attempted masking of the smell provided by the aftershave and perfume tester bottles - that's what they did on the expose programme they showed a couple of years ago.

Ryanair are fine if you use em like a bus, ie handluggage, and as long as nothing goes wrong ie cancelled flights or owt, but if the proverbial hits the fan, don't expect an easy ride. I much prefer Sleazyjet & Jet2 as far as cheapo airlines go.
 
Kev M said:
I fly Ryanair too regularly and soon enough you will come to appreciate the luxury that is easy jet. If I remember rightly you can take 10kg hand luggage (I've never had it weighed once) and only 15kg hold luggage. For every kilo over they charge you £15.
Click to expand...

I flew with them twice in the last ten days - but only because no other airline flys the route I wanted.

What Kev says is correct ^^ although one of our bags was over 15kg, but under 16kg, on the return journey and we were not charged. I noticed other passengers with hold baggage between 15kg and 16kg and not being charged.

The Ryanair Priority ticket system seems to work better than Easyjet's system. We went for Priority Boarding and were first on when outbound Stanstead>Friederichshafen and got the good legroom seats. I would say only about a quarter of the passengers opted for Priority - although most that didn't still queued in the Priority line until 'given directions'.

For the return, Milan>Stanstead, we ended up well down the Priority queue yet still managed to get the good legroom. There were still some good legroom seats left for the non-Priority passengers for when they boarded which I'll never understand. Mind you, some of the muppets boarding this flight just couldn't make up their mind where to sit. They were given a choice, you see, and that foxed them. The stewardess got quite stroppy with them in the end as they were causing havoc - being early onto the plane and faffing about in the aisle for ten minutes.
 
We just flew Ryanair Stanstead - Pisa return & I'd say that Priority booking is a must if you want to sit together.

Be very carefull when you hand over your self printed tickets, they have a nasty habit of not giving back the return section which 'can' cause problems for the flight home (saw it happen to quite a few people)
 
my favourite things about ryanair are:
paying for priority bus boarding - you pay for speeding boarding and all it does it get you on the bus first

paying to check in - as far as i can tell, there is now no way of avoiding paying to check in

paying £4 per person per flight for using a maestro card. If you book return flights for four people it costs you £32 to pay with a maestro card (which costs them 50p in total)

watching people act like animals to get on the plane first.

my biggest annoyance is when short people sit in the long legroom seats and i'm (6'4") stuck with my knees jammed in the back of the chair in front. In this situation i normally make sure i'm sitting behind those short arses so i can kick them in the back of the chair for the journey.

i'm sick of ryanair. God only knows how they get away with some of their business practices and charges. They truly are the tinkers of the airways.
I try my best to use other airlines, but sometimes its just not possible.
 
[youtube]6VLYpKGVBUg[/youtube]
 
n600445608_2673167_1952850.jpg
 
I'd check the baggage allowance on both flights, remember in Ryanair's world they don't do 'Returns' only single flights.

One of my wife's workmates went on a family trip this summer with Ryanair and the baggage allowance going out was 20kg each but coming back was only 15kg :shrug:.
 
Gary said:
paying to check in - as far as i can tell, there is now no way of avoiding paying to check in
Click to expand...
you only pay for checking in at the airport if you fail to check-in onine.
 
Yeah but you have to pay to check in online too, it's just a lesser amount.
 
Ryanair really are the worst airline to fly with, but sometimes they have to be used. :)

I hate flying at the best of times (crammed into a small seat with 200 other smelly passengers around you, with almost no space to move around and 2-3 hours at either end, whilst nursing a headache from the pressure and dry air...) but ryanairs fees just take the biscuit. I thought the Government put in some law governing how they can advertise their prices but it doesn't seem to affect them (they still don't stick taxes etc onto the ticket costs until you have chosen them (unlike every other airline including easyjet), which means although they may seem cheaper at first glance they may very well not be), and then you need to remember you will be charged around £20 each way to check in, take baggage, pay and everything else. Unforunately we seem to have gone too far away from paying for a little bit of quality. :)
 
Have you booked a seat or just a hanging strap?
 
I'm paying for online check-in on my outbound flight, but not on my return flight:thinking:

The biggest kick in the nuts for me was the £10 per flight I had to pay to use my debit card!! £40 in total...........just to pay!!!!

Still came out the cheapest though so can't complain......
 
Slimbert said:
I'm paying for online check-in on my outbound flight, but not on my return flight:thinking:

The biggest kick in the nuts for me was the £10 per flight I had to pay to use my debit card!! £40 in total...........just to pay!!!!

Still came out the cheapest though so can't complain......
Click to expand...


its like O'Leary sits in his office just laughing his head off whilst he thinks of new ways to take the ****.
He's basically a pikey that runs an airline instead of tarmacing drives.
 
Ryanair! .... OMG!!!! ......
 
A classic case of you gets *** you pays for! If you can and do stick within their many and varied rules (read: excuses to charge you more) and dont mind flying to an airport approx 60 miles away from where you want to go (Neiderheim/Weeze airport anyone?) then yes, they are good n cheap BUT if the **** does hit the fan you are screwed. Heres your 1p airfare back sir. Next flight is on Thursday.
I loath everything they stand for and only ever use them out of necessity. I will happily pay a bit more to fly with anyone else if I can.

Oh and who else hates that bloody annoying jingle when they land on time? It's the one that is suspiciously missing when they arent.
 
2blue4u said:
Not last week I didn't. Nor the week before.
Click to expand...

Yes you do. Try and book a ticket, I've just looked at Stanstead to Zaragoza tomorrow.

Fare: 129.00
Online Check-In: 5.00
Taxes: 28.27
Total Price: 163.26
 
I'm pretty much sorted for info but need to check one more thing......

The 55cm x 40cm x 20cm on board baggage limit is proving a little difficult mainly due to the 20cm bit. Has anyone ever been refused or been charged a fine for being over the limit with their hand luggage? The bag I want to take is 22cm at the thickest point (loads under on the other dimensions and weight) which isn't loads but I don't want to get stung at the airport with fines, or even worse have to put my camera gear in the hold!!:eek:

Anyone got away with it or been caught out with hand luggage??!:thinking:
 
Slimbert said:
I'm pretty much sorted for info but need to check one more thing......

The 55cm x 40cm x 20cm on board baggage limit is proving a little difficult mainly due to the 20cm bit. Has anyone ever been refused or been charged a fine for being over the limit with their hand luggage? The bag I want to take is 22cm at the thickest point (loads under on the other dimensions and weight) which isn't loads but I don't want to get stung at the airport with fines, or even worse have to put my camera gear in the hold!!:eek:

Anyone got away with it or been caught out with hand luggage??!:thinking:
Click to expand...

if you check in online you'll prob get away with it.

just dont look like your are straining when you go through the first part of security
 
btw ryanair are increasing the charge for one piece of hold luggage to £30 for a return, and god help you if your luggage is overweight because the charge for a second bag will go up to £70 from £40!!!
 
Gary said:
btw ryanair are increasing the charge for one piece of hold luggage to £30 for a return, and god help you if your luggage is overweight because the charge for a second bag will go up to £70 from £40!!!
Click to expand...

Cheers Gary, the weight won't be a problem. It'll be well under Ryanairs 10kg limit. It will also be well under their height and width limits, but it will be a centimetre or 2 over on the depth, and I'm not sure how keen they are when it comes to the odd centimetre......

I am doing the on-line check in thing, does that mean my hand luggage won't be checked?
 
Gary said:
btw ryanair are increasing the charge for one piece of hold luggage to £30 for a return, and god help you if your luggage is overweight because the charge for a second bag will go up to £70 from £40!!!
Click to expand...

Hi Gary have you got a link for this information. It'd be good to get it passed round our company so there are no surprises at check-in any more.
 
Slimbert said:
Cheers Gary, the weight won't be a problem. It'll be well under Ryanairs 10kg limit. It will also be well under their height and width limits, but it will be a centimetre or 2 over on the depth, and I'm not sure how keen they are when it comes to the odd centimetre......

I am doing the on-line check in thing, does that mean my hand luggage won't be checked?
Click to expand...

I've taken my Red Snapper bag on 2 Ryanair flights, which is about 24cm wide when laden, and I didn't get stopped - just have it over your shoulder, and don't make it look 'heavy'

I can guarantee that once you hit the boarding gate you'll see somebody in queue who makes you think 'how the f@!* did they get that coal sack through as hand luggage!!'!! :D :D
 
depth wont be a problem as I travelled back from Spain last week they dont check the size unless your bag looks huge and this is at the boarding stage not check in
 
I've seen someone stopped at East Midlands boarding get to have their bag checked for size but the ground staff at EMA leave a lot to be desired anyway. Conversely I've seen women on Ryan Air flights with bags so big they physically couldn't lift them into the over head lockers so I really wouldn't sweat about 2cm too much. They don't measure them as such they check to see if they fit in a metal fram and I'm sure if you lean on the bag there will be a couple of cm's give in it.
 
Also its ok getting out its coming back into the uk where they are more pedantic about things
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top