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By *lentyoffun40 OP   Couple
over a year ago

Lancashire

How do these Robbin bastards get away with charging £20 a kilo for excess baggage ?

It's a disgrace

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

At least they give you advance notice!

Just pack less and travel light - it leaves room for all that duty free on the way home!!

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By *ugby 123Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

O o O oo

Cheap Airline? This is how they make their money out of you...which in turn means it ends up not so cheap

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By *issHottieBottieWoman
over a year ago

Kent


"At least they give you advance notice!

Just pack less and travel light - it leaves room for all that duty free on the way home!! "

This is what I think! I always weigh my bags before I leave to go anywhere. The excess baggage charges are normally on tickets/airline websites

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If the price for excess baggage is clearly stated in their T&C, t hen they can.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"How do these Robbin bastards get away with charging £20 a kilo for excess baggage ?

It's a disgrace "

Book with someone else then

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By *lentyoffun40 OP   Couple
over a year ago

Lancashire

Yeh yeh

We get it and we should have checked

What we saying is

How is that price justified ?

20 pound a kilo is too much

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By *radleyandRavenCouple
over a year ago

Herts

Because there's a limit you've paid for (which can be increased beforehand) and you're expected to stick with it?

I'm a talented packer and even as a female will only use up to 16kg with a 20kg limit and even lighter coming back.

I'm sometimes shocked at the amount of excess baggage people up with. One couple I remember both DOUBLING their baggage allowance (over 40kgs each) and were moaning about how much they had to pay! I mean, what have you put in there!!!

- Amy. x

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By *radleyandRavenCouple
over a year ago

Herts


"If the price for excess baggage is clearly stated in their T&C, t hen they can. "

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

This is not exactly headline news.

Low Cost / Budget airlines have been doing it for years and it has been highlighted so, so many times that I fail to believe that people don't know about it.

Read the carriers T&C's - they are always available on their websites

Pack within your limit or book extra luggage allowance in advance

Stop chancing it - they are well aware that people do this and have checks in place to prevent it.

No one is being robbed

Those that do get charged are victims of their own naivety / ignorance

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If your weight is over...put on as many clothes as you can out of your case,they cant weigh you

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Yeh yeh

We get it and we should have checked

What we saying is

How is that price justified ?

20 pound a kilo is too much "

It is set that high for a reason - to stop people doing it again !

If you do fly Ryanair again, I bet you will pack a bit lighter

What you will find though is that such practices are not unique to Ryanair

Other airlines doing similar are Easyjet, Jet2, Monarch, Thomas Cook, Thompson, FlyBe and more

The legacy carriers such as BA are also adopting this model on their short haul flights too so just make sure you know what you are booking before you press the button.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

What's the limit ? Am flying next month

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"What's the limit ? Am flying next month"

who with ?

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By *reelove1969Couple
over a year ago

bristol

you're going to love the new policy that is due to be introduced whereby your weight and your baggage will be combined ie you may have a combined weight allowance of 100 kg so your baggage allowance will be determined by your personal weight

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By *issHottieBottieWoman
over a year ago

Kent


"What's the limit ? Am flying next month"

Should be on your ticket if you have it or if not the airlines website.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Yeh yeh

We get it and we should have checked

What we saying is

How is that price justified ?

20 pound a kilo is too much "

They will price it as a deterrent. If everyone packed too much they would need more fuel, or not be able to carry the extra weight.

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By *iss_tressWoman
over a year ago

London


"How do these Robbin bastards get away with charging £20 a kilo for excess baggage ?

It's a disgrace "

Was the weight restriction a surprise?!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"What's the limit ? Am flying next month

who with ?"

If you have booked with Ryanair, you have two options to pre-book hold baggage

one is 15 kilo, the other 20 kilo

if you have booked neither, all you have is a 10 kilo cabin baggage allowance - and here is the real killer

that 10 kilos has to fit into a bag no bigger than 55 x 40 x 20cm

turn up at the airport with a cabin bag bigger than that and there is a chance it will be put in the hold at a cost to you of £60 (per flight)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"you're going to love the new policy that is due to be introduced whereby your weight and your baggage will be combined ie you may have a combined weight allowance of 100 kg so your baggage allowance will be determined by your personal weight "

is that policy ?

i thought it was another o'leary publicity stunt, a bit like the paying for the loo and introducing planes with seats removed to allow for a standing area ?

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By *iss_tressWoman
over a year ago

London


"Because there's a limit you've paid for (which can be increased beforehand) and you're expected to stick with it?

I'm a talented packer and even as a female will only use up to 16kg with a 20kg limit and even lighter coming back.

I'm sometimes shocked at the amount of excess baggage people up with. One couple I remember both DOUBLING their baggage allowance (over 40kgs each) and were moaning about how much they had to pay! I mean, what have you put in there!!!

- Amy. x "

Oh I've watched with amusement people turning up with trunks and then kick off as they've exceeded the weight restrictions.

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By *iss_tressWoman
over a year ago

London


"This is not exactly headline news.

Low Cost / Budget airlines have been doing it for years and it has been highlighted so, so many times that I fail to believe that people don't know about it.

Read the carriers T&C's - they are always available on their websites

Pack within your limit or book extra luggage allowance in advance

Stop chancing it - they are well aware that people do this and have checks in place to prevent it.

No one is being robbed

Those that do get charged are victims of their own naivety / ignorance

"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have never flown with Ryanair or Flybe. If I'm going on a package holiday I always book with Thomson and it's 20kg hold luggage. I've never been charged excess baggage.

It is a lot of money agreed but the cheaper the flight, they will make money elsewhere.

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