Ryan Air Luggage Weight

[slid_away]

Hi All
We are due to go away soon and are flying for the first time with Ryan Air. We have 25KG weight limited per person, 15KG in the hold and 10KG hand luggage, which seems plenty but because you can not take any liquid's in hand luggage it has to all go in the hold, i.e toiletries.
I've been told today though by a friend that you can actually take 15.9KG and 10.9KG because they will only charge once you go over 1KG and as your still in your 15KG bracket you can not be charged.
I've never heard this before and don't want to go to the airport over weight and have a charge for it.
Can anyone confirm if this is true or not please?
Thanks to all in advance
Kind Regards

[NoMercy]

I can't confirm the 15.9kg rule, but I was 2 kilos over when I last flew with them and it cost me either £30 or £40... can't quite remember. Personally I think they are a bunch of crooks.

[cc1]

I've never had my handluggage weighed by Ryanair, if it looks normal they don't bother you, and you will have checked in on line, so until security, no-one comes into contact with it.
Once through the security, you can buy toileteries from airside shops, or buy them at your destination. Wear a coat of many pockets, they can hold your heavier stuff, books etc.
Since travelling with Ryanair, we've found we can manage with a lot less!

[naomi24]

If you're wise you'll stick strictly to the limits you've been given. Ryanair is not an airline that looks kindly upon its customers. And as for hand luggage - it really is ONE item. I've known ground staff to insist that people who are carrying a bag wear their coats rather than carry them over their arm, and to insist they dump newly bought duty frees that won't fit into their hand baggage. Sorry, but be warned.

[Dris]

I travel wih Ryanair all the time and I wouldnt take ANY chances with them.They are the most ruthless airline.
Try it out if you want but I wouldnt chance anything with them personally.

[NoMercy]

I was actually man-handled at the gate for having a laptop AND a handbag. lovely fluffsters.

[naomi24]

I believe it NM. The only reason I've ever travelled with them is for the convenience of the flight timings, but when I saw people having to dump their duty frees and wear their coats, I decided I'd never travel with them again - and I won't.

[boxtops]

if you have a handbag you have to put it IN your hand luggage, it's not an extra. Places like supadrug sell small sizes of lots of toiletries, ideal for holidays, there is no need to take huge cans of hairspray etc with you - or you can usually buy the same or similar stuff there when you get there. It is not worth risking being overweight, Ryanair is getting a reputation for applying the rules very rigidly. You can take a small amount of liquids in hand luggage (5 x 100ml containers, all in a clear plastic bag) which is enough for me in terms of hand cream, lipstick etc. If you have medications, don't forget to take them in your hand luggage in the original box with the prescription label on the front, then if you are stopped there is no doubt what your pills or medical sprays are for. Not worth risking going over - and if you are over, you will have no space for bringing back those holiday souvenirs!

[Buenchico]

The vast majority of Ryanair's passengers take ONLY cabin baggage. (Over 70% of travellers do that. On the Stansted to Dublin route many flights have no hold baggage at all). So that means that a lot of passengers are trying to carry as much as possible in their cabin baggage. I've witnessed lots of occasions where Ryanair staff (or airport staff working on their behalf) have rigorously enforced the 'one bag only' rule, insisting that passengers cram things like handbags and airport purchases into their already-full cabin bag. I've also seen Ryanair staff checking the dimensions of cabin bags (by attempting to put them into the 'cradle' which defines the maximum measurements for cabin baggage). However I've NEVER seen anyone actually WEIGHING hand baggage, so you chances of getting away with a bit of additional weight there are quite good.

I would have expected Ryanair to interpret their rules for hold baggage based upon "per kg or part thereof" (so that, for example, 15.1kg would count as 16kg) but their website only refers to 'per kg'.
http://www.ryanair.co...estions/table-of-fees
So you might well be safe up to 15.4kg (because that rounds to 15kg) but anything above 15.5kg would seem to be potentially expensive.

Chris

[coccinelle]

I often travel with Ryanair but not from the UK and they do abide by this rule of 15.9KG because they can't really charge you for 1 KG overweight when you are not! However, I've never had my hand luggage weighed but they often ask to see it so they want to see how you lift it!! I've also been on flights in Italy and Spain and people have been overweight but allowed through no problem; it all depends on the airport I think.

[Dris]

cocinelle overwiht people is a different aganda in fairness.

Chris I have had my bag rammed into the cradle on several occasions and sweated it through.

I just wouldnt take a chance -I along with NoM have stories i could use to back up but they are too lengthy but you just have to take my word for it.

I use them as they are cheap and convenient for the airport I travel to plus their flight times are handy-so I weigh up the good with the bad hence I still travel with them and indeed am just back just a week or so ago using them.

[coccinelle]

Dris ????????? is that a dig? or is that a joke?.................

[slid_away]

Thank you so much for all your answers.
I guess the bottom line is...don't risk it!!!
Thanks again, you have all been a great help

[Dris]

cocinelle -neither as the thread was about hand luggage and the space therefore in overhead lockers.I dont do digs im forthright albeit in a kind way :)

[piggynose]

you´ve been badly informed slid_away, i only used ryanair 3 weeks ago, and 15kgs means 15kgs!! i know, cuz i had to keep removing things til i got to about 14.9kgs. i kept removing 1 book at a time, and when i got to 15.3, i still had to remove something, hence it was 14.9 at the finish

[spudqueen]

We flew with Ryan Air a couple of weeks ago. We had bought some of those scales to check ourselves, and luckily we didn't go over 15kg either there or back. They DID weigh our hand luggage. I had put all my books in there as I knew that they would weigh quite heavy. I also planned on the way back to put shoes in my hand luggage if I was going to be overweight, but I wasn't. Do check on their website the size of hand luggage as I think it's slightly smaller than some other airlines allow. They do also check that your hand luggage will fit in one of those cradles. And don't assume that you can go mad in the shops once you've gone airside, on our flight home (just over a week ago) they weighed and checked size of hand luggage at the gate, just before getting on the plane, so if we'd bought a load of stuff we'd have had to dump something. Having said all that, as long as you abide by the rules and know what to expect then the flights are fine. This was the second time I'd flown with them this year, just because no-one else is doing flights to the places I want to go!

[Andyvon]

I've used Ryanair a few times, but only because their times and routes happened to be the most convenient. Unlike other airlines, Ryanair seem to treat their passengers with something almost approaching contempt. That may well be down to the way Ryanair treat their employees. If a company treats it's staff badly that invariably shows in the attitude of staff towards customers.

My father spent his life in the airlines and he stays in touch with the industry. Ryanair squeeze as much as possible from their staff and they cut every possible saving to the bone. They employ newly-qualified and inexperienced pilots that other airlines don't touch because they can pay them the lowest salaries. New pilots accept that as they are gaining the experience they need to work for better employers. Unlike other airlines Ryanair make their pilots pay for their own training by contracting them to stay until all costs have been recovered. Ryanair also make flight and ground crews buy their own uniforms and flight crew even have to buy their own drinks and food like the passengers!

Don't expect too much i the way of customer service slid_away.

[boxtops]

dris, coccinelle, I just read this, I think there is cross purposes in the posts - coccinelle said "people were overweight" but I think she meant luggage, not the people!

[Buenchico]

Andyvon's post might be accurate with regard to Ryanair but it's misleading in the way that it portrays them as different from many other airlines.

The vast majority of airlines (even 'full fare' carriers) now require pilots to pay for their own training. There's so much competition for places that there's no need for airlines to fork out for training costs. (That's just the same as if you want to train to drive an HGV. It's extremely unlikely that any haulage company will pay for it).

To the best of my knowledge, ALL budget carriers expect their cabin crew to pay for their uniforms. (I know that easyJet were charging their staff £500 for uniform about 10 years ago).

Ryanair's boss, Michael O'Leary, is one of the few successful businessmen to publicly admit what they all know. i.e. that it's profit (and not staff or customers) that really matters. He's to be congratulated for his honesty as much as he is for his enterprise.

I can hardly wait for the day when BA goes bust (hopefully alongside many other full fare carriers, such as Alitalia). Such antiquated business operations have no place in the modern world.

LONG LIVE RYANAIR!

Chris

[237SJ]

Nice suggestion Christ to want to see airlines go bust and thousands of people lose their jobs. Maybe you`ll then take up Ryanair`s offer to stand at the back of the aircraft like cattle when Michael OLeary removes the seats. Not a good standard to aspire to

[Andyvon]

God - has it changed that much Chris! I do confess that my father was telling me this quite some time back when Ryanair were the only airline to start all this. I wouldn't be in the least surprised if Ryanair were the first and other airlines have now followed.

My father was a flight and ground engineer with many airlines from the 50s to the 80s. He joined Monarch when they started in 1967 with just 2 Britannias. Aircrew had a lot of respect and glamour then. It seems that's all gone now (along with flight engineers!)