tommy.irene

Ryanair is to allow passengers bring a second small carry-on bag on board, in addition to a free 10kg cabin bag allowance from Sunday.
The low-cost airline has also cut its boarding card reissue fee from €70/£70 to €15/£15 for customers who have already checked-in online.
Ryanair will also introduce a “My Ryanair” passenger registration system at the end of December, allowing even faster bookings.
It will be followed by a “Share the Fare” feature, allowing passengers to share fares via social media, a “Fare Finder” feature, where customers can search for fares via price point, route or travel period, and the implementation of mobile boarding passes.
Ryanair’s Robin Kiely said: "Ryanair is continually striving to improve our passenger experience and we are very excited at these significant improvements to our industry leading customer service.
We are actively listening and responding to our customers so that they can continue to expect low fares and on-time flights, but can now enjoy a second small carry-on bag and reduced boarding card reissue fees for those who have checked-in online, along with easier website access, 24 hour grace periods and quiet flights, with further improvements set to be rolled out over the coming months."

tommy.irene

Ooops, here is link: http://brne.ws/e5g

Ryanair increases baggage allowance on flights
www.breakingnews.ie
Ryanair is to allow passengers bring a second small carry-on bag on board, in addition to a free 10kg cabin bag allowance from Sunday.

Neptuno

It really annoyed me when staff turned a blind eye to someone with several bags, yet would swoop on another passenger with a tiny handbag, making her put it in her hand luggage. When she protested the unfairness of it they threatened to not let her on the flight if she didn't stop complaining.
Now apparently they are all sweetness and light!

EMR

I just booked flights for next summer, they were over £60 less than EJ.
EJ have no wt limit for hand baggage ( yet ) but we can live with RA's limit.
£10 for a reserved seat each way is too expensive compared with EJ under £4 so we will have to get to the front of the queue.

fionamw

Nowhere I could find did it say that the second small carry-on bag would be free of charge.

tommy.irene

why does the front of the plane go faster than the back of it..

billgates

It must do - the front of the plane always gets there first.

Dick Dasterdly

No idea really, unless they normally allocate seats in order from front to back or from low numbers to high ?

Maybe passengers think they'll get off the plane faster and sooner up front, though at the end of the day it makes little difference and is usually a pointless exercise.

Many passengers preferred rear seats at one time believing them to be safer in the event of an accident, though I suppose in the event of a bad one they'd only survive for a micro second longer than those up front.

johnnyone

It's to get off first, to dash to the car hire office. I always reserve an overwing exit seat, get off without rushing, have a coffee then collect the car. Far more relaxing.

angiescarr

Well Well. They've realised you catch more bees with nectar ;-) Nust have found a gag big enough for mr OL

VFR

Yes I always chuckle as the plane pulls on the brakes and the vast bulk of the rear passengers then stand to get their overhead bags & then wait .... and wait.

Same at the luggage carasol where they all get as close as they can to await "their" bag & block your vision access in the process.

teuchterpete

Just flown Malaga-Gothenburg and no problems with extra shop bag. They even sent me an. e mail to say I could have one

rafikiphoto

Was the flight full? How were the extra bags accommodated? Seville to Stansted flights are often a nightmare finding a spice for the regular hand luggage so I'm wondering how they will cope now with all these extra ones.

angiescarr

I believe it's as long as it fits under the seat in front of you.

billgates

It's one thing if you're just going on holiday when time doesn't really matter and you can just relax and wait for everyone else to get off the plane first. You're in a holiday mood and probably had a few little drinks with it. Chill.

But when you travel regularly then you just don't want to be standing queuing all the time. You've got better things to do, you have to be somewhere else, you've got appointments to keep, meetings to prepare for, presentations to compose.
Flying is no longer a pleasure, hasn't been for years. It's a bus, it's uncomfortable, it's time-consuming, it's tiring. Airports are awful places full of stressed-out people, long queues at check-in desks, long queues at security-control. People who don't travel very often are sometimes confused by the latest security requirements, you just want to scream at them - no, you can't take that 2 litre bottle of water through security, it says so there. Or when you're at the back of the queue waiting to get your hand-baggage back from the scanner but someone at the front is complaining about why security want to confiscate the forty items of toiletries stuffed in every available pocket, and just how unfair it all is.
So you just deal with it and keep calm and wait your turn, confident that you've complied with all the requirements regarding bag size, weight and contents.
When your gate is called most people stand and queue. If you don't join the queue then you board last. No problem really except that there's no more room in the overhead lockers for your bag. Your seat is a middle seat between two larger-sized people that are clearly travelling together but hoped that by taking the window and aisle seats then no-one will want to sit between them, thereby giving them three seats to spread out over. You have to squeeze in the middle and then put your bag under your feet which means your knees are up around your ears. And the little darling in the seat behind you that keeps on banging the back of your seat is quite adorable really. Never-mind, it's only a three-hour flight.
Sometimes it's easier to just join the people queuing and make sure you get an outside seat and that there's still space above for your bag. Great, now relax while boarding finishes and the problem of no more room in the overhead lockers for the many passengers still trying to board is their problem, not yours. Unfortunately seeing as your bag is tagged with a pink label (Monarch flights) which indicates a smaller sized bag, the kind cabin-crew lady politely asks if you could just place your bag under your feet so that this huge trolley bag can fit into the locker. Knees around your ears again. If you dare to object to this by saying you were here first then they will threaten to put your bag, not the huge trolley bag but your bag, in the hold, thereby adding at least a half hour to your time for collecting your bag. Alternatively the same kind, polite cabin-crew lady will ask if you mind her moving your smaller bag just down here where there's a space just big enough. Fine for the bag, not fine for you because you are seated near the front, your bag is now near the back. You're now going to be one of the last to get off.
But that's ok because you can just sit and relax and wait for all the other silly people who just can't get off quick enough. Eventually it's your turn and you can now trek back up the cabin and retrieve your bag.
Then you join the back of the queue for passport control.
You finally get to the passport desk and the queue splits into two for the (only) two desks. Just one family in front, so nearly there. Except they can't find their passports. She had them, no, he had them, maybe they're in this bag....
And on and on and on.