Ryanair baggage

[KARL]

I have just been looking at Ryanair's site and my reading reveals a masterfully ambiguous explanation. Has anyone very recently travelled with them with more than one piece of checked in baggage exceeding 15kg in total weight to put them in a position to reveal their true practice ? Again, my reading of Ryanair's description is that you can prepay for up to three items totalling up to 15kg in weight and there is no excess baggage charge as such - but there is no explanation as to what the excess baggage terms (two asteriscs) are when you go beyond 15kg. Also, they talk of any single item being limited to 32kg which suggests there is definitely a way to exceed the 15kg. One suspects this is a tightly sprung trap.

[Buenchico]

The 32kg limit is common to all flights from UK airports. It's the maximum weight, under Health & Safety rules, which baggage handlers are allowed to lift.

Quote:
"Checked baggage in excess of the checked baggage allowance per passenger will be charged a fee per kilo" (The bold type is mine)
Source:
http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/faqs.php?sect=b ag&quest=excessbaggage

As I think you've already seen here,
http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/faqs.php?sect=C HARGES ,
you can pre-pay for up to 3 items of baggage, at �3.50 per item, subject to a maximum weight of 15kg. Excess baggage has to paid for at the airport, where the charge is �7 per item plus �5.50 per excess kilo.

Chris

[mikey0118]

Ryanair are a petty airline. I recently heard of somebody who was 1kg overweight and the airline charged him for excess baggage.

Whilst the line does has have to be drawn somewhere - this seems a bit petty to me.

On a recent long-haul flight with Korean Air, my 20kg allowance was exceed by 9kg. They said my bag was too heavy and asked me to sort it out and then accepted it at 26kg. But with a 12kg hand baggage allowance, I wasn't too bitter about it!