Originally Posted by rafikiphoto (Post 11018017)

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.

Originally Posted by billgates (Post 11018320)

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.

Originally Posted by Dxf (Post 11020492)

Hola
Just read this newsletter; about half way down there is some news about Ryanair - don´t know if I believe it all though !!!

http://www.cadizcasa.com/newsletters...ER_Issue10.pdf

Davexf

Originally Posted by Antecuser (Post 11021736)

they said theyre are going to losen up theire rules by allowing one small item from the tax free shop and so on
(SNIP)