Yes this will be £4 for each way and per person. My daughter just booked 4 flights for her husband and 2 children and the cost was £32! Scandalous.

Sue

Why did they book with Ryanair then? was it the cheapest available.

Dave

Dave, My gripe isn't about the cost of the air fare I have just paid £223 to fly return plymouth to Manchester tomorrow and was only charged £1 debit fee so why does ryanair charge £16 debit fee I'd feel much better paying for a dearer flight than thinking I was being ripped off with charges.

Hi Maggie,

I do understand how you feel and don't approve of Ryanair's methods of charging but at the end of the day most put up with it because all in all they offer extremely good value, I certainly have and I am sure many others have gone where I could'nt afford to go before,my wife and I flew to Tenerife last christmas for £104 return total, they have got to get their profit from somewhere because no one can fly you to Dublin for £4. I don't buy refreshments on board or pay for priority boarding or buy insurance from them. I did'nt mean to offend you but I seem to take a different veiw of Ryanair and see the final total of what I pay as being most relevelant, whatever it certainly gets us talking about Ryanair and I would imagine that's what Mr O'Leary wants.
Dave

Yes my Daughter is flying to visit my Son and needed 4 flights to Dublin. In the end she booked it as 3 and then a single booking.
She and the children will book in on line and just have hand baggage as they are only going over for a few days. Her husband will check in at the Airport with one suitcase and this will be £24 for the bag and the Airport check in. In the end they wanted to fly from Leeds/Bradford but the cheapest option was to fly from Doncaster.
Yes the flights were a lot less than and it is not possible to fly to Dublin from Leeds with another airline. It is just that the rule regarding the card use either credit or debit card and I think that a per person charge is not really justified.
That said I am flying with Ryanair next Friday until Monday and there was a £1 flight but for 3 days I could not get a booking accepted saying that there was a security issue.
3 days later when I made the booking it is FREE from Leeds with £30 tax and the flight back is £10 total I have paid is £63 plus. That is the charge for the bags and the card.
Still pretty cheap as it was £98 to fly to Belfast. Yes they need to make money but I wish they would just put the flight costs rather than all the add ons. Just my opinion.

Sue

Sue - no I actually got it to confirm £1 each way per person with NO ADMIN for Visa elctron; at the top of the screen you get a cost breakdown (minus admin) but when you enter details it shows amount to be taken - which includes the admin and when selecting visa electron it genuinely confirms £4 whilst all others confirm £20.

I also opted out of checked baggage; as you can take a small holdall to 10kgs as carry - on this should be sufficient for a day or two; just buy toiletries after security

Thanks good to know that! I was not able to get the £1 fare as there was a 3 day problem with all this warning symbol and even if you decided to ignore this is would not let me book. Still even at the £63 or whatever it is not a bad deal.

Sue

It seems Ryanair are cancelling some flights because, in their own words, "non delivery of aircraft from Boeing, because of a strike in the factory". I thought that the airline was grounding some aircraft in the next few month to save money. So, on the one hand, they say they haven't enough aircraft, then they say they are taking some of the existing ones out of service. This seems very strange.

Is'nt it that they are not flying the under used routes, they have introduced some new routes recently that they see as perhaps more profitable, they always seem to want to expand their business.

Dave

Can anyone advise me whether i will be able to use an holdall I have as hand luggage travelling from East Midlands airport to Malaga the size of the holdall is 45cmsx30cmsx25cms I have seen on the department for transport website that the maximum size is 56cmsx45cmsx25cms however on just looking at ryanairs website they are showing the max size as 55cmsx40cmsx20cms are the handluggage checked for weight and size at the airport? Should I be alright to use this holdall or would they say it is too large and charge me to put it in the hold?

I think that you will be OK I have flown numerous times with Ryanair to Dublin over the past 2 years. Have never had my hand baggage measures although mine meets the criteria or weighed. I have seen a lot of bags bigger by quite a long way and people just seem to get through with them. Travelling on Friday again but unless things have changed since my last flight in June. Will let you know.

Sue

I always make sure that my hand luggage fits in the frame at the check in desk, but seem to be the only one who does, people take all sorts of sizes on board and you would be unlucky with the sizes you quote to get the knock back, But at Stansted a young lady behind was turned back from entering departures because of the shape of her holdall/bag and when we got on board albeit an Easy Jet flight there were many bags larger.

martinl - In May I was behind someone who was sent back from security at Stansted to check in a bag that didn't look as big as some that were let through. It seems to depend on who's manning the security. I have never seen anyone turned away at the gate. There are boxes both at check-in areas and gates and if staff wanted to be awkward they could make you try to fit the bag into the box and deny you boarding. Having said that I agree that some bags, in particular, backpacks seem very much bigger than 20 cm. I am travelling tomorrow with a roller bag measuring 52x38x20 (so it said on the label) and as it laid down I can squash it down to 20 cm but cannot try to fit it into one of the measuring boxes as it doesn't have a handle on the longer side and I could not get it out of the box so will just hope that nobody challenges me. When it is standing on the wheels, it is actually 22 cm (so little too big). Can you not make sure that yours can be squashed down 5 cm? Or argue that because the other measurements are a lot smaller, the volume of the bag is actually not too big at all.

To me it seems a bit of a 'job's worth' when the difference is only a couple of inches or centimetres.

If they make you check it in - you'll be charged £24 for the return journey (cheaper to buy a new bag before you go!)

Also, people go shopping once through security and bring loads of bags on board - nothing is ever said about that to my knowledge.

I've just returned from Girona with Ryanair, got the flights for £1 each way with no additional charges. bag sizes didn't seem to be an issue give or take a few centimetres and as mentioned in an earlier post many people were boarding with additional bags of shopping.

at gerona airport i have often seen ryanair staff at the bottom of the stairs leading up to departures whose only reason for being there is to look at bag sizes and stop people whose bags look to be too big.
when i travelled earlier this year they tried to intimidate one of my friends because they thought he was travelling alone and was slightly older than the rest of us. fortunately i was able to intervene and resolve the matter.
even though my bag is about the right size, it is 2 inches too wide but will squeeze into the cage as it is never that full,i always now look to see if they have someone at the stairs, and just wait till they have gone.
gerona airport can be a breeze on a good day, but on a bad day with this sort of practice and their dodgy scales at check-in i am always very careful to keep within ryanairs rules.

You may have a point about the scales at Gerona.
I had packed one bag with the exact stuff I had at Newquay and the case was 13.5 kg but at Gerona it was 16kg

Also If you go up to departure lounge by lift you will by pass the staff on the stairs and jump the q.

Ryanair will raise fees until 75% of passengers carry hand luggage only

Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary said the airline will keep raising baggage fees until 75% of its passengers carry hand luggage only.

At a press conference yesterday, the airline's chief executive told journalists: "It's all about efficiency. Passengers won't have to go near a check-in desk or pay for over-priced facilities at our rip-off airports."

Ryanair already charges £12 each way for passengers to check in luggage - £8 for the bag and another £4 for airport check-in.

O'Leary also warned that the economic downturn and rising fuel prices would see another British airline collapse in the next few weeks.

He predicted that two other European carriers would also go under before the end of the year.

He said Ryanair's passenger numbers were up by 20% in September, pointing out that BA's traffic fell by 6%.

Ryanair used the press conference to issue yet another attack on its rivals for their "unjustified fuel surcharges".

It called on British Airways, Air France, Lufthansa and Aer Lingus to reduce their surcharges by at least 40%, to reflect the fall in oil prices.

It said prices have fallen by more than 40% from a high of $146 to under $90 per barrel.

The airline pointed out that BA has recently reduced its cargo fuel surcharges, but said it "continues to scam its passengers for fuel surcharges".

Ryanair published figures showing that while oil prices are now almost three times higher than they were in May 2004, BA's short-haul fuel surcharge is six times higher and its long-haul fuel surcharge is over 40 times higher.

At the Advantage Travel Conference last month Richard Tams, BA's general manager UK and head of global corporate sales, said any benefit from the recent fall in oil prices had been wiped out by currency fluctuations and the airline's fuel hedging.

He admitted the airline was coming under increasing pressure to incorporate fuel surcharges into its fares.

Ryanair, which launched 1 million seats for €1 last week, has now released 1 million seats for free, including taxes and charges, for travel from November 15 to December 16.

Flights must be booked before midnight Thursday (October 9) on the airline's website.

With permission from TravelMole

Does anybody know why I cannot print my boarding pass. Have checked in online and when it comes to printing the boarding pass, all I get is ryanair.com and Page 1 of 1 on the top line and ....skysales/FRBoardingPassDisplay.aspx and date on the bottom line. The middle of page is blank. Is there something going on with RyanAir's website at the moment?

Have 6 boarding passes to print for next Tuesday so would appreciate some information or help.

Cic

There must have been a glitch in their system. All has now gone through. Some were already checked in and I just reprinted and some I had to check in from start.

I see that I could now check in return flight at the same time (for 23 Oct) so that makes it easier when I don't have to find internet and printer abroad.

Cic