Italy opens probe into Ryanair hand luggage charges

Post by shishko » Fri, Sep 21, 2018, 3:10 PM UTC

wastedhours wrote: post #54

bumholio wrote: post #23

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Weight is largely irrelevant. The difference between a airliner full of 45Kg people versus 90Kg people constitutes about 5% of the total plane weight. Some fuel savings but would not be worth the aggravation, client humiliation, lawsuits etc. What it boils down to is volume and time. A passenger takes up a seat regardless of how large he is (...) so he's charged for a seat. Luggage changes that equation far more than…

> A passenger takes up a seat regardless of how large he is I'm only halfway joking when I say I've lost many an elbow into the side of someone substantially larger than I. For some "a seat" is "their seat + several inches of mine". I know it's not really the problem at hand, but it's poor proxy for volume, and again, just shows that the weight fee is just a sham. Just going to start manufacturing a "flight jacket" w…

Post by doctorOb » Sat, Sep 22, 2018, 2:13 AM UTC

iamben wrote: post #8

Not sure how I feel about this. It annoyed my greatly on my last RyanAir flight that in order to take a slightly larger than laptop sized bag (35L) I had to pay for priority which was 8 quid or whatever. A Primera flight I've just booked is now doing exactly the same. Small bag free, bigger bag not so. But, as some of the comments here, I think it sped things up once on the plane. However, adding the extra charge lea…