Ryanair baggage cost!!!

[Diian]

Ryanair... I know!

Booked a flight for Easter, £38 rtn for DH and myself, but when I went to add a cabin bag they wanted £109!!!

When I have flown before it was £6 each way. On the Ryanair website they want £20 per cabin bag each way (£80). It is cheaper to buy one hold suitcase at £26 each way.

When did these charges become so steep?

It's £11 a kilo extra if you're over at the airport and £55 to check in at the airport rather than online (which might well be a problem for some people who don't have access to smart devices). What a rip off!

And if you have the wrong size bag, it is £69 payable at the gate not £25!

It has been more expensive at peak times for many years. £38 does not cover the true cost of your flight, hence why they add on extras. You should have priced it up fully when booking.

And if you have the wrong size bag, it is £69 payable at the gate not £25!

Then you make sure you have the right size bag.

It's not rocket science is it?

Its the downside of very low airfares. You know they are going to bump the prices up somewhere else. I have often found its cheaper on other airlines once the extras are taking into account (and certainly less stressful)

I always use Ryanair and Easyjet, if travelling with the former I don't buy any bags and just bring a rucksack (that should but doesn't fit under the seat, I've never had any problems). On my last flight a man brought a very large cabin bag on that didn't fit in the overhead locker, and when he alerted staff she cheerfully replied that she'd put it in the hold for him. The lesson I took from this is that if you have the extra money just in case, there is the chance that you can get away with not paying for cabin baggage.

Oh and when I have had cabin bags neither airlines when flying out from UK have ever checked the dimensions of the bags. I had to leave a bag in Tel Aviv once as they measured every single bag and mine was 0.5cm over because of the handle. I said I would remove the handle but they said that wasn't allowed

Last time I flew RyanAir my bag cost more than my seat did.....i contemplated booking a seat for it and using the Argos catalogue listing as it's photo ID

It is more of a surprise that this is news to anyone, it’s their business model! Cheap seats and extortionate extras

It’s worth checking with BA as sometimes they’re cheaper to include everything

Get a jacket with many large pockets !
This was a tip from a former employee.

£38 rtn for 2 people is an absolute bargain! You wouldn’t get far in the UK by train for 2 people.
Just travel light with a small bag, or pay the extra for hold luggage, it’ll still be cheap at £38 return flight + £52 return hold luggage.

£38 each return (sorry for the confusion).

Just wear all your clothes at once.

Maybe the wording in your post is wrong, but if you went to add cabin bags after booking the flights then £109 isn’t out of the ordinary. Everyone who flies Ryanair with a certain frequency knows that you book everything from the get-go, otherwise they’ll charge you double. Same for printing a boarding pass at the airport, extra hold suitcase at the counter… these things need to be booked right at the beginning for them to remain reasonably cheap. And it’s not just Ryanair who does this, most airlines will tell you that it costs X to add a suitcase as you book, and X+£30 to do it at a later time.

Ryanair are cheap but only if approached a certain way

Ryanair are dreadful. My flight was cancelled in late March 2020 - obviously- and it took 8 months, 22 complaints, hours and hours on the phone and finally a complaint to the regulator to get my money back.

Heard the CEO on the radio stating that anyone saying they hadn't got a refund was a liar.

Never ever again.

It’s called “ancillary revenue.”

Been a feature of the industry for a while - offer eye catching prices on seat only deals, seal the deal and then clobber the passenger with high charges for bags (especially checked bags), any manual intervention such as check-in, changed booking charges and then when on board the aircraft stuff like food and drink..

TBF to the airlines passenger duty, airport fees, navigation fees, fuel and other fixed costs all add up. If you pay much under £30-40 for a short sector Ex-UK the company quite probably isn’t making much if any profit on the transaction.

Oldish article but it will explain it better than I can:

simpleflying.com/airlines-ancillary-revenue-2020/

When I was booking it on the 'My Travel site, it was £38 each return (£76). We added a cabin bag each, it bumped it up to £185 (it said £109 for cabin luggage... I thought that was the whole flight price, not just the bags so took the bags off). I have since gone on to the Ryanair site and bags can be added at £20 each way for each cabin bag or £26.99 for a larger hold bag. This can be booked from now up to 2 hours before departure. I think once we know we will be definitely be going I will add one hold bag. I was just shocked by the price.

Oh okay, that sounds much more like their normal prices. Third parties try to make money where they can as well, always best to check with the airline direct!

Priority boarding is always more, I find easy jet approx £30 each way

No sympathy at all. Not exactly a secret the business model of Ryanair.

I was a bit surprised at the £55 to check in at the airport. Not so much all the baggage charges and add ons. But it can end up cheaper flying with, for example, BA if you have to have checked in luggage.