RyanAir

damnyanks

Howdy,

I've to fly from Birmingham to Dublin on Wednesday. I'm coming back from college so will be bringing cloths and books. Figure I'll go over the weight restriction. Does anyone know how strict RyanAir are with the restrictions?

Can't really afford paying extra

por

damnyanks wrote:

Howdy,

I've to fly from Birmingham to Dublin on Wednesday. I'm coming back from college so will be bringing cloths and books. Figure I'll go over the weight restriction. Does anyone know how strict RyanAir are with the restrictions?

Can't really afford paying extra

The best advise I can give is keep your checked in bag to below the 15kg limit and try maximise the size of your carry on, it worked for me a few months ago.
Myself and my girlfriend were in Paris and bought 10 bottels of wine which the store owner boxed in 2 boxes of 5 for us. Instaed of putting these in our checked in bags we put them in or carry ons (there were heavy) and while checking in kept them out of sight (ish) of the checkin person. Worked fine, the checked in were below 15kg and we just about wedged the 2 carry ons into the overhaed.

Bri

Yup I've hidden my 2nd peice of handluggage from check-in and then carried it by disinterested Bouvaix security and flight staff. Helps if you have a 2nd person with ya as my 1st bag was nearly exploding, I had a camping mat seperately and that hidden 3rd bag.

eth0_

They never weigh your hand baggage unless it's a huge huge bag. So pack as much as you can into a large holdall, and be there early so you get on the plane first and can stow your bag before everyone else!

kenmc

try shipping the books? can get a reduced rate on printed material i think....
worth a go.

Invader Zim

por wrote:

The best advise I can give is keep your checked in bag to below the 15kg limit and try maximise the size of your carry on, it worked for me a few months ago.
Myself and my girlfriend were in Paris and bought 10 bottels of wine which the store owner boxed in 2 boxes of 5 for us. Instaed of putting these in our checked in bags we put them in or carry ons (there were heavy) and while checking in kept them out of sight (ish) of the checkin person. Worked fine, the checked in were below 15kg and we just about wedged the 2 carry ons into the overhaed.

Are you allowed glass bottles in the cabin?

eth0_

Invader Zim wrote:

Are you allowed glass bottles in the cabin?

Of course. Duty free shops are AFTER you check in your bags!
It's quite strange, isn't it. You could easily hijack a flight with a broken bottle, just as easily as with box cutters.

trotter_inc

Girl that sits beside me here in work was telling me that her friend was charged for being 1kg over her luggage weight - the check-in clerk might have been having a bad day

Bluehair

Ryanair staff have zero discretion on whether or not to charge for excess baggage, you're over one kg you're charged one kg.

This is enforced in two ways, by disciplining those who don't charge and by rewarding those who do with a monthly commission.

You're allowed 15kgs checked, 10kgs carry-on and whatever you can wear! (in my very broke days I literally wore a weeks worth of clothes until I got on the plane then stripped and stuffed it into my carry on, all those extra pockets were dead handy for carrying stuff too :rolleyes: the things I had to do..)

penexpers

I've gotten away with 30 kg on Ryanair before even when people were checking in for the same flight beside me got charged for the same. It does largely depend on the staff checking you in. I know someone who used to work for them and she said they had to reach 5,000 euro per month in excess baggage charges - after that it didn't matter. They also seem to be more strict in smaller airports, but that's only in my experience.

is_that_so

Seems like they are strictly enforcing it now. Was stopped a few months back and told to take stuff out my hand luggage. I put it back in when I got through. They also gave it an "evil" eye when I was getting on the plane and were suggesting that it go in the hold. Incidently the Siobhan Creaton book on Ryanair is superb, very good read(sorry off topic )

penexpers

Yeah just started reading the book. Very enlightening.

Imposter

When I flew home in August they were weighing everyone's hand luggage in Stanstaed. Going back they weren't. The didn't weigh my hand luggage on the other 3 flights (incl stanstaed going back). It seems like it's a pretty random thing so you might be lucky. Alternatively wear whatever you can.

damnyanks

Ended up getting on with main bag being 2kg over limit. Put an extra carry on bag with 3 books with over 1000 pages (Comp books) under my coat at check in and another carry on weighting about 12kg on the outside.

Probably looked a bit dodgy on airport security cam when I took my coat off and put a bag under my coat