Ryanair have announced they intend to charge to check-in luggage. “To reduce airport handling costs” says the article.
I don’t know why Ryanair continues to succeed. In every experience I’ve had with the airline, whilst I’ve saved money, I’ve become hugely irritated by their mode of operation (See my most recent experience, flying from Glasgow Prestwick to Dusseldorf Weeze), and count my flight experiences with them as amongst the most miserable I’ve had (and I’ve had a few bad ones along the way!)
Give me Stelios and easyjet any day. Ryanair just seem to be going for every possible cost-saving they can, from even more remote airports, to ruthless boarding policies. Easyjet does a lot of this, but seems to have drawn a line. In comparison to Ryanair, they’re positively plush and up-market.
Charging for checking in luggage? Sure it might save some money, but I fear it’ll simply encourage people to try and squeeze ever more into their hand luggage (already taken to extremes by many people, to the detriment of everybody else trying to squeeze a regulation sized bag in the lockers), and further undermine - in my mind at least - that this airline has gone too far in cutting costs, to the extent they risk making the travel experience even more miserable than it already is with them.
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January 27th, 2006 at 12:56 pm
Maybe Ryanair are trying to put you off, so you won’t travel and less fuel will be used. Subversive or what?