Originally Posted by
hugolover
In practice, there is no way they will want to manage 100+ cabin bags into the hold just before departure and thats a lot of bags to carry down to the aircraft, those LHR T1 style bag shoots are long gone at airports!!!
You are aware that (except in Aena airports in Spain), Ryanair do not routinely use airbridges? They have steps from the tarmac and the "drop-off" for gate dropped bags is at the bottom of the steps. So no more work for the staff than if they had been delivered there on a baggage cart.
In the past, Ryanair has actually reduced service to or even dropped airports that force them to use airbridges.