11455 Ryanair fees

JET2 are usually reliable, make sure you check the hand luggage size its smaller than Easyjet.

It's ridiculous is my comment - they make me sick to tell the truth. How can they justify the increases? And how did travelling with bags become a dinosaur? Presumably going away for anything longer than a weekend is also a dinosaur then? Unfortunately they are my only direct option from Brindisi, but I wish it were not the case. I flew easyjet to Rome in December and it was another world.I don't know Jet2.

One thing I see from the page about fees on Ryanair's website is that the £25= €25 ie parity as far as they are concerned!!!! lol

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"]I think the fees all went up just before Christmas and that is when they set the 'exchange rate' Over the two and a half years we have been flying regularly from the Midlands to Pisa, the cost of the 'Ryanair extras' has shot up. However while we can get return flights for £10 all in and car hire for two weeks for £69 (this February) I will get by with my 10kgs hand luggage and travel steerage. [/FONT]

Yes Ryanair do add all these extra charges and they keep going up but anyone remember the good old days (even into the late 1980s and early 90s) when if you didn't stay a Saturday night you were into costs of around £500 return, oh and there weren't these flights to regional airports - yup it getting more expensive but I'll live with it. I've started looking at how many clothes I actually wear and at Christmas (when we had driven so luggage was not an issue) I reckon I only wore half (if that) or what I took.

Chris

[quote=PennyAW;108452]I see from today's Telegraph Travel section that Ryanair now charges £30 for putting a case in the hold for a return trip, while the weight limit for hand luggage has fallen from 15kg to 10kg. A spokesman from Ryanair says 'travelling with bags is a dinosaur'.......???
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IMHO, they'd have more chance of discouraging hold baggage, if the weight limit for cabin bags was increased to a more realistic figure. Easyjet have no weight limit "within reason", as long as the case meets the volume restrictions.........

We got a 'Ryanair surprise' at Stansted this Christmas when we had to check-in ourselves by machine and then queue up to dispose of baggage (one holdall). Why did we pay a check-in fee when it's do-it-yourself?
We'd actually queued up to check-in before realising everyone around us had these tickets and then it was announced over the tannoy (?) you had to use the machines. Fortunately, I just managed to get the tickets before we got to the desk. I still think we get good deals with Ryanair but as Jet2 fly to Milan from Leeds and Bradford we are seriously thinking about checking their flights out for comparison. Parma is the nearest airport for us Italy side and only Ryanair fly there, that's why we use them.

Coppicer, would really appreciate the name of the car hire company that charges £69 for 2 weeks carhire, cheapest price for 1 week in feb '09 £130 (autoeurope),for a fiat panda.

[quote=castelforte;108581]Coppicer, would really appreciate the name of the car hire company that charges £69 for 2 weeks carhire, cheapest price for 1 week in feb '09 £130 (autoeurope),for a fiat panda.[/quote]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"]When I booked the flights, I was redirected to the Ryanair / Hertz site. I was so stunned by the price I booked it straight away. It has a rate code of RYAN14 so whether it is a special rate they offer for two week bookings I do not know. I have looked on the website but have found no mention of it. Perhaps if you put that code in when you try to book you will get is at that rate. The breakdown for the 4 door panda diesel is £15.57 PER WEEK plus tax, location charge and road tax - total for 2 weeks£69.97 It also includes collision damage waiver and theft protection and is guaranteed. :yes: YIPEE!! [/FONT]

Bouna fortuna Coppicer, Salute.

[quote=coppicer;108589][FONT="Comic Sans MS"]When I booked the flights, I was redirected to the Ryanair / Hertz site. I was so stunned by the price I booked it straight away. It has a rate code of RYAN14 so whether it is a special rate they offer for two week bookings I do not know. I have looked on the website but have found no mention of it. Perhaps if you put that code in when you try to book you will get is at that rate. The breakdown for the 4 door panda diesel is £15.57 PER WEEK plus tax, location charge and road tax - total for 2 weeks£69.97 It also includes collision damage waiver and theft protection and is guaranteed. :yes: YIPEE!! [/FONT][/quote]

Just tried and sadly it didn't work - worth a try though - will try to do it form click through form Ryanair - think you just got a luck break while they were updating systems or something (might be worth checking the details though!)

Yes I did not believe it so I have checked, double checked and printed out the confirmation that gives me the dates and says ' this price is guaranteed'. Perhaps it only has 3 wheels or two gears or no windows!!

[quote=Romano;108549]IMHO, they'd have more chance of discouraging hold baggage, if the weight limit for cabin bags was increased to a more realistic figure. Easyjet have no weight limit "within reason", as long as the case meets the volume restrictions.........[/quote]

Returning to Trieste from Stansted this Sunday, we both had only cabin baggage. The two bags were weighed at security, and both were found to be about 11kg. We offered to dump stuff from the bags, but the security woman said there was no need, and put stickers on the bags saying "Heavy". My wife cheekily removed these when we got through security, but what was the purpose of them? Would they have charged us extra when we reached the gate?

[quote=gradese;108693]............... The two bags were weighed at security, and both were found to be about 11kg. .................... the security woman ....... put stickers on the bags saying "Heavy". My wife cheekily removed these when we got through security, but what was the purpose of them? Would they have charged us extra when we reached the gate?[/quote]

I think the stickers are there so that if someone other than you, for example the flight attendants, needs to get your cases out of the overhead lockers [say to move them to make space for a something else], then they are 'forewarned about the weight, and don't b*gger up their backs.

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We have flown with Jet 2 in the past but they also add on taxes and charge for hold luggage and this year we found them to be a lot dearer than Ryanair on the dates we are travelling. Going with Ryanair from the nearest airport also means John can use his Gold Card to get there by bus and we have no parking fees. All these things have to be taken into account when looking for cheapest option. Ryanair has really transformed our journey by limiting us to hand luggage. I now love travelling light after years of taking masses of stuff I never used.
pam

I booked flights yesterday, Brindisi to Stansted for 3 days, my husband and I and our baby - 375 euros all in - we will be there for 2 and a half days, it's pretty sickening. Unfortunately we can't manage with just hand luggage with the baby's stuff - luckily our friends have a travel cot for us when we get there otherwise that would be an extra 20 euros. sigh...

people do only see the headline prices for ryanair and other low cost airlines then get surprised when they see them get the money back in other ways...at the end of the day, flying a plane isnt cheap. One can either book straight prices (that are clear, include tax etc) with the likes of BA and not be treated like cattle...or book what looks cheap via a ryanair like company, end up paying a similar price and also get treated like cattle. If you didnt know that already then you soon will! The worst offender for extra charges in my book is Monarch...they even ask if you want to pay to allocate your seat on the plane in advance, meaning families for example risk being split up unless they pay to gaurantee sitting together...in my mind its pretty terrible.