Ryanair and pushchairs: what can you take?

[Artijoke]

Ryan Air say an infant can travel to the gate with a pushchair which will then be put in the hold for free. Does anyone know whether this has to be a fold up pushchair or whether we could take our Bugaboo Chameleon with infant carrycot (not seat, our baby is too young)?

TIA

I don't know but wouldn't it be hard to pack the carry cot so it didn't get damaged at that point?

We took our BJCM and a bag, zipping it into the bag at the gate (make sure they put the label on the bag handle not the pushchair. Unless they have a weight limit for pushchairs, I can't imagine a carrycot and pushchair together in a bag would cause them any problems.

Not quite the same but we've taken a travel system (pushchair with a car seat clipped on to it) on Easyjet a few times with no problems. They just class it as a two piece pushchair. Added bonus that you have a car seat at your destination.

Not sure I would want to put an expensive pushchair on a plane. We quickly moved on to a lightweight mclaren which after about 10 flights over a few years was completely trashed and filthy. The bag idea seems sensible (might start doing that when we go away with our new baby!) but it will still get thrown about.