I understand the concept of unbundling.
But could someone help me understand what Ryan's is saying:
"The checked baggage allowance is 15kg per person (no infant allowance).

NO POOLING/SHARING OF BAGGAGE ALLOWANCES IS PERMITTED, EVEN FOR FAMILIES/GROUPS TRAVELLING TOGETHER ON THE SAME RESERVATION.

Customers wishing to check baggage into the hold of the aircraft must pay a baggage Fee for each item of checked baggage, per flight. The Baggage Fee can be prepaid either at the airport, or through a Ryan air call centre, at the rate of £10/€12 per item of baggage/per one way flight.

Customers may purchase up to 5 items of baggage per person. Please Note: That the total Checked Baggage Allowance per person is 15kg irrespective of the number of items of baggage purchased per person. There is no baggage allowance for infants, although a pram/buggy will be carried free of charge."

1st paragraph states that if I have 14kG and my wife 16kG - she pays. I hope we are allowed to transfer that 1kG from her bag to mine - but I am not sure.
2nd paragraph - I thought they already gave me 15kG allowance into the hold. So if I have one bag of 15kG do I have to pay 12 euros for the allowed 15kG being in One bag.
3rd paragraph - appears to confirm my conclusion from the 2nd paragraph. Do they say that if I bring the allowed 15kG in 5 bags of 3kG each they will charge me 60 euros for the allowed 15kG being in 5 bags.
4rth paragraph - Does this mean the no matter what I cannot take more than 15kG even if I want to pay extra.

Thanks for help.:confused:

1: yes, u can physically move it at no extra cost if u have something of hers that fits into ur bag.
2: yes, but the baggage fee is reduced by 50% if u book and pay for it online.
3: yes, but the fee for each extra bag is reduced by 50% if u book and pay for it online.
4: no, ryanair would very much like u to pay extra, at £5.50 or €8 per kg.

the link below might be of help.

http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/faqs.php?sect=CHARGES

ian. :)

1) Luggage allowance is per person, therefore you have a 15kg allowance, your wife has a 15kg allowance, your mistress has a 15kg allowance. If any one person has more than 15kg then that is excess baggage - you can't give your unused allowance to someone else. You can physically move some of the weight from one person's bag(s) to another person's bag(s) to use up your PERSONAL allowance

2) You get a free checked allowance of 15kg - but you have to pay separately for each bag that total of 15kg goes in

3) See 2)

4) Ryanair checked luggage rules (http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/faqs.php?sect=bag&quest=checkedbaggageallowance) - Any passenger checking in baggage exceeding the 15kg checked baggage allowance per person will be charged an excess baggage fee per kilo...

... For health and safety reasons Ryanair will not accept any individual item exceeding 32 kilos and with combined dimensions of more than 81cms height, 119cms wide and 119cms depth.

Hold it!

Just to make this perfectly clear - there is no free baggage allowance on Ryanair other than the 8kg of carry-on baggage they allow you take aboard.

Any baggage you want to check in has to be paid for separately, no matter if it's the first bag or the fifth. If it has to go in the hold - it's not free.

Welcome to the wonderful world of Ryanair! :mad:

This has tripped people up before, so just to make doubly clear (although you did not indicate confusion on this point):

The 15 kg refers to all of your checked bags together. It *does* not mean you can check five bags each weighing 15 kg without extra weight charges (beyond the charges for checking bags in the first place).

Hold it!

Just to make this perfectly clear - there is no free baggage allowance on Ryanair other than the 8kg of carry-on baggage they allow you take aboard.

It's 10 kg (has been for a while)

This has tripped people up before, so just to make doubly clear (although you did not indicate confusion on this point):

The 15 kg refers to all of your checked bags together. It *does* not mean you can check five bags each weighing 15 kg without extra weight charges (beyond the charges for checking bags in the first place).

Correct - but you can split that 15kg into up to 5 bags (then weighing 3kg each) - and pay 5 GBP (ex-UK) or 6 EUR (elsewhere) per bag for the priviledge when you pre-book baggage online, otherwise it's 10GBP/12EUR when paying at the airport or with the call centre. Any baggage weight above 15kg will be charged at 5.50 GBP/8.00 EUR per kilo. And, of course, each passenger's baggage is calculated separately, as you already knew.

It's 10 kg (has been for a while)

How very generous of them... :rolleyes:

Correct - but you can split that 15kg into up to 5 bags (then weighing 3kg each) - and pay 5 GBP (ex-UK) or 6 EUR (elsewhere) per bag for the priviledge when you pre-book baggage online, otherwise it's 10GBP/12EUR when paying at the airport or with the call centre. Any baggage weight above 15kg will be charged at 5.50 GBP/8.00 EUR per kilo. And, of course, each passenger's baggage is calculated separately, as you already knew.



How very generous of them... :rolleyes:


I don´t understand the 15kg baggage policy between 5 bags.....it´s an absolute joke. I had to pay extra luggage when I flew them to GRO a month ago and I´d paid for the extra bag. I really doubt I´ll be flying them again. :mad:

I don´t understand the 15kg baggage policy between 5 bags.....it´s an absolute joke. I had to pay extra luggage when I flew them to GRO a month ago and I´d paid for the extra bag. I really doubt I´ll be flying them again. :mad:

I'm fairly sure that the only reason that policy is in place is so that they can extort extra money from people who misunderstood the policy or didn't read it carefully.

It's garbage like this that drives Ryanair's revenue.

I'm fairly sure that the only reason that policy is in place is so that they can extort extra money from people who misunderstood the policy or didn't read it carefully.

It's garbage like this that drives Ryanair's revenue.
If you doubt Ryanair's strategy, read this article:

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/BUSINESS/07/31/ryanair.results.reut/

Quote:
"Ryanair said steady ticket prices, an 18 percent rise in passengers traveling on its growing network from a year ago and a 53 percent jump in ancillary revenues from services other than ticket sales were the main reasons for the profit rise.

In-flight sales of food and drinks, baggage charges and services such as car rental and travel insurance all helped boost ancillary revenues, which now account for 17 percent of the airline's total sales, to 117.1 million euros."

If you doubt Ryanair's strategy, read this article:

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/BUSINESS/07/31/ryanair.results.reut/

Quote:
"Ryanair said steady ticket prices, an 18 percent rise in passengers traveling on its growing network from a year ago and a 53 percent jump in ancillary revenues from services other than ticket sales were the main reasons for the profit rise.

In-flight sales of food and drinks, baggage charges and services such as car rental and travel insurance all helped boost ancillary revenues, which now account for 17 percent of the airline's total sales, to 117.1 million euros."

I didn't say it wasn't working. I just think it is a despicable way to do business.

Ryanair is fine if everything goes right and you know what you're getting yourself into. But if anything goes wrong, you're screwed. And that's why I prefer to pay a little more to fly on an airline that won't leave me in the lurch.

Unless I can get one of those 0.01€ tickets (including taxes) they keep offering. Then I feel they have a fair point with regard to how they treat me.