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Old Aug 4, 2009 | 1:22 pm
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Old Aug 5, 2009 | 6:26 pm
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play the rules with ryanair and see who wins ???? they employ people on the ground to screw you
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Old Aug 6, 2009 | 4:26 am
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Originally Posted by First_time_flyer
Does that mean it can be any size up to that maximum..?
The maximum appears to be 15kg in total, as long as you have paid the per-bag fee (if booked online: first bag 10, second and third bag 20 each, the price doubles if you pay at the airport ticket desk)

After that paid for 15kg, you're looking at 15 per kilo.

Ryanair is best completely avoided if you have any bags to check-in, try other airlines.

Originally Posted by First_time_flyer
"For health and safety reasons Ryanair does not accept for carriage any individual item exceeding 32 kilos or with combined dimensions of more than 81cms (height), 119cms (width) and 119cms (depth)."
This passage means 32kg is the maximum Ryanair (and the big UK airports) will accept to go through the baggage system - regardless of how much you have paid in fees.
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Old Aug 7, 2009 | 6:10 am
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Indeed. Want to take a 32kg bag? You're going to be paying (30 x 17kg) 510 in excess baggage fees for a return flight.

As stewardo says, do NOT fly Ryanair if you have baggage to check-in. Period. Do a Google search for the chaos they caused last weekend when they had just 11 baggage desks open for 255 flights out of Stansted.
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it can be any size up to the maximum you stated (which appears rather obvious to me) but not a cm more!
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Old Mar 20, 2010 | 10:22 am
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Ryanair Baggage Help

Hello all,

I will be flying Ryanair tomorrow for the first time, and I am very nervous about the baggage restrictions.

I currently have this carry-on bag, and it seems to meet the restrictions (I think).

http://www.luggage.com/London-Fog-72...e-LFL1051.html

Do any of you have any advice for me? Should I bring a smaller bag for my vacation for 1 week? Thanks
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Welcome to Flyer Talk nycfly89 !

A quick search would have turned up an existing thread on the topic. To keep things organized I am adding your post to that thead.

Thanks for understanding !

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All the baggage questions are answered on their website:

http://www.ryanair.com/en/questions/baggage
http://www.ryanair.com/en/questions/table-of-fees

Read them carefully or you will pay the price when you get to the airport!

You must print your own boarding pass before you get to the airport and there is a cut off time to do this (maybe 4 hours before the flight). Be safe, logon and print it 2 weeks before you go and keep it with your passport.

A few things that AREN'T necessarily obvious for the first time flier with Ryanair:

If you are travelling on a non-European passport then you may have to get the boarding pass stamped at the Ryanair ticket desk before you go through security. This is NOT the same as the normal border controls where they stamp you in or out - it's something specific to Ryanair. They will tell you about this when you do the online check-in.

DON'T try and push the baggage or check-in limits. They will give you about 2kg leeway on checked bags (probably less on handluggage) and then they charge you a lot of money.

They do spot checks on your carry-on luggage at the gate so don't think you can flout the rules and get away with it. If your handbaggage is overweight then you have to pay to check it in at the gate.

If you buy duty free then you have to put it inside your hand baggage. Strictly ONE bag per passenger including things you brought at the airport and it will include a ladies handbag if that's too big too.

Note the check-in and boarding times and DON'T be even 1 minute late or they WILL deny you boarding with no refund and you have to buy a new ticket. Sit on the plane conforted by the thought that you aren't going to be waiting for "the last remaining passengers" who board late and delay the plane by a couple of minutes so it misses it's takeoff slot and is then 20 minute late.

Flights are generally 90% full so if you want a window/aisle seat then pay a few Euros/Pounds the priority boarding and get to the gate before they start boarding and you will get the seat you want. Waltz up to the gate after priority boarding is complete and you will have to take whatever seat is available.

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