Ryanair and pushchair

[tostaky]

Do i need to pay for my pushchair or not if i fly with Ryanair?

You don't need to pay for the pushchair, it's free. And I don't think you even need to mention it until you check in. You do however, need to book and pay for any large baby items (e.g. car seat)

See the link here

What I don't know is if they'll let you keep the pushchair until boarding or whether they'll want to take it at check in. We're off to the south of France with RyanAir in October and planning to take our fabric sling as hand luggage just in case they whip the buggy off us.

i've flown birmingham - derry with ryanair (and also birmingham to belfast city and intl, not ryanair) and the protocol seems to be that you keep the pushchair up till the door of the aircraft. this is great in some ways, but if you're trying to elbow your way onto the plane to make sure that your family can sit together, then you lose your place in the queue a bit when you're wrestling the child out of the pushchair and collapsing it. and then you have an extra collapsed pushchair to deal with along with all your other c**p. it's fine when there are two adults involved, but recently i flew alone with dd1 + 2 and in both directions a helpful man (passenger) took charge of my pushchair for me. i could have managed, but this made it much easier.

they also don't consider (particularly in birmingham) that they might make you walk down some steps onto the tarmac before you climb up into the plane and this is obviously really annoying if you have wheels.

on arrival, sometimes the pushchair is waiting for you at the bottom of the steps when you get off the plane, other times it comes on the carousel. this might depend on whether or not you have to climb stairs to get back into the airport terminal, as was certainly the case the last time i flew.

Thanks Janek. We're flying with another couple and we've got priority boarding too. Hoping either I'll take DD and DH sort the buggy or the other way around. Between the four of us we should be able to manage hand luggage & DD even if the buggy is on the carousel.