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Hi Everyone,

We are flying out next week (hoping to resolve some issues with Taray, incuding the pool) with Ryanair, East Midlands to Murcia.

In order to avoid the practice of Ryanair of charging for eveything they possibly think of, in particular for baggage and airport check in, this time we have decided to go for on-line check in and hand luggage only.

As you avoid the check in desk at the airport and go straight to departures, can anyone tell us if they actually check the weight of the hand luggage in departures at either end? because we are sure they would love to charge extra if they found you were 0.01kg over over the 10kg allowance.

Otherwise we have always found them to be OK, always on time, early more often than not.

Any advice would be appreciated

Regards

Dave & Janet

I have used online check in from dublin-murcia on my last six visits, and so far the cabin crew who check your ticket at the gate have never refused anybodys hand  luggage. If you stay within the bag size, and you dont look as if you are struggling with the weight you are ok.
 
                                                                        Tom.

Thanks Tom,

We've also had a couple of PM's saying the same thing, we just had visions of being checked down to the last ounce so that they could screw another few more Euros out of us.

Hope to get some more info on the pool next week.

regards

Janet & Dave

I flew out from East Midlands with Ryanair to Murcia a couple of weeks ago.  There were Ryanair points at which you could check whether your hand luggage was within the size guidelines.  Nobody asked to check the size or weight of my hand luggage (or anybody else's as far as I could see).  Looking at people in the queues to board there was hand luggage of all shapes and sizes!  On the outbound flight they wanted to see the liquids in the 20x20 plastic bag in security.  Inbound, they didn't bother with that.  They were more concerned about metal objects and they have a video showing people removing belts, watches, jewellery ...  Again no checks on size or weight.

Outbound we landed about 15 minutes early and on the return we took off 10 minutes early and landed 35 minutes early.  It was a shame that it took the ground crew 20 minutes to get a bus to us to take us to the terminal.

Diane

Hi

I agree that if you don't seem to struggle with the weight of your hand luggage and the dimensions are ok, then you don't have to worry. 

However, a word of warning. On our return from Murcia with ryanair about 2 weeks ago, we were unable to check in online due to not being able to access the correct web page. So we had to check in at the airport. We weren't charged for this ( I explained that we had attempted to check in on line) but we did have to have our hand luggage weighed. We were overweight by a couple of kilos and were told to remove some items before going through security. We didn't and nobody checked further. But there were people in front of us checking in who were made to remove things from their suitcase before they were issued with boarding cards.

So be warned. Try not to be overweight in case this should happen to you.


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 Lets hope it doesn't get this bad!  

NEW AIRLINE RULES


Attendant: Welcome aboard Ala Carte Air, sir. May I see your ticket? 

Passenger: Sure.

Attendant: You're in seat 12 B. That will be $5, please!

Passenger: What for?

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