I have to bring a medical bag on flights. Before our holiday this year, I contacted them to confirm that I would be allowed to bring it. They said it was fine.
I left Derry airport with no problems.
On our way home, from Faro airport, they wouldn’t allow me on the plane unless I checked it in. In the end, I had to show the staff member why I needed it, I had to do this in front of all the other passengers. She let me on.

About 2 weeks later, after lodging a complaint, Ryanair issued me with an apology. They couldn’t have been more apologetic to be honest.

But their baggage regime creates this kind of situation.

It’s works out quite economical if you put some family members inside the checked luggage. They are not flammable. Also I’ve noticed more and more people travelling with small children inside their hand luggage. This is becoming quite risky as I have noticed an increase in Gestapo at the gate looking for anyone attempting to carry-on kitchen sinks.

There’s an easy to avoid Ryanair’s sly, exploitative baggage charges and their appalling customer service – fly with Aer Lingus or one of the other rival airlines.

Anyone had their taxes used to bail out Ryanair recently? Anyone been forced to book flights with them? Nope? O’Leary, nasty smirking shyster that he is, does no harm to anyone but his willing customers – that practically makes him Man of the Year by this country’s standards.

Danny, thats pretty bad. :(

Ryan Air has a secret agenda….
FLY NAKED ;)

Apparently there also very good discounts if when booking online, you tick the option to fly the plane. A pilot from Yemen was only telling me this yesterday.

Surely it must be cheaper at this stage to buy your luggage seats on the plane then check it into the hold?

It’s a budget airline. If you want to fly cheap – don’t expect much. If you don’t like it – fly with another airlines.

Ryanair are great if you can get the good deal, but it’s a bit rich for him to complain about the ten Euro airport charge if he charges 135 quid for a bag!

As shocking as Ryanair are, it’ because of them flying around the world has become so cheap, you can’t take that away from them. I dont and never will fly with them, but I thank them for introducing huge competition.

I’ve found Ryanair a goodsend on short business trips, I can fly in & out of the UK at times for €30 return, it can cost more to park at the short term car park!

I always try to avoid flying Ryanair whenever possible. This sort of rip off charging plus the hassle you get at check-in over bag sizes just re-enforces my opinion of them; th worst airline i’ve had to deal with to date.

If you book well enough in advance Aer Lingus can be just a cheap. I have got flights to London and Malaga cheaper with Aer Lingus in the past on a few occasions. If you go anyway outside of the norm with “scumbag air” you will be screwed.

Agree stephen,Ryanair are a bunch of cu#ts but if you play ball & do what’s asked of you there’s nothing to worry about,I got charged €30 by aer lingus at the airport last month for checking in a bag

Its the only airline that i can find that goes dublin to liverpool, so no choice really.

Easy way around it is not to fly Ripoffair!!!

Whilst you are invariably treated like cattle with Ryanair, you do get what you pay for. Like they rightly say, if you book everything online, which most people do these days, then a lot of extra charges.hassle can be avoided. It’s not perfect but all it takes is some careful planning.

Tis all the price of flying cheaply.

http://magslife.com/2011/12/08/facebook-home-of-the-idiot/

Ryanair by hiking up the charges are attempting to scare people into checking in bags in advance. €25 per bag: €50 return. Robbing b@*!£$ds. Another reason why I never ever fly with them. Scummy airline

Norman in a lot of cases Ryanair is the only airline flying to some destinations, so people don’t have a choice i.e Gdansk.. I know of some Polish people who prefer to fly Lufthansa to Germany and take a train to their home city rather than deal with Ryanair..and it still sometimes works out cheaper sometimes. Next time O’Leary mentions the travel tax, someone needs to bring up Ryanair’s ridiculous charges.

Adding up all of ryanair extras as well as flying into odd airports throughout Europe leaving passengers miles from where they want to be not to mention was treated like an animal when I fly with them, Aer Lingus it is for me in the future where both fly to same locations.

Who is still flying with Ryanair ?

Gerry the people you know are doing what i suggested.They don’t like Ryanair so get to their destination a different way whats the problem.

This will encourage people to move away from Ryanair. They have run out of ways to take out cost and are trying to hide their prices from customers. Clearly they arw having difficulty to be efficient they tried ti charge me 900 to fly to Malta in October when I could fly to America for 650. Something is not stacking up in their business any more.

Visiting ryanairs website feels like taking part in a three card trick with a street hustler in Albania. Now you see it now you don’t. They have become the “Flyer of Last Resort” for most people. Like all cost cutters their business model is finite. One accident away from meltdown.

They provide an experience akin to Lidl vacuum packed smily pork roll or primark bumper men’s brief multi pack. Best avoided, a consumers delusion of value.

If Ryanair was a meal it would be spam and smash with curried beans.
If it was a sport it would be woman’s cage fighting
It it was a car it would be a trabant
If it was a band it would be Saxon
If it was an item of clothing a tangerine leatherette jock strap
If it was a woman it would be Jordan
If it was a man it would be Michael o’leary

If you really hate R.A so much why fly with them.But remember who brought in cheaper air travel and made the world closer and why is R.A. Are praised anywhere I have traveled by the locals there and the Irish always runs our own down
A sure sign the begrudgers are all alive and well here lol lol lol just get on another airline

Some people are so stupid. Ryanair explain everything if you take the time to look. From charges to bag size it’s all there on their website. Anyone that gets caught out are usually to blame through their own laziness.

Groan…I’d pay twice that amount to keep this tool out of my face .

o leary you tit.
whats next ? we step on a scales nd charge us by weight or will there be a height charge?

With this kind of extortion O’Leary is slowly tightening the noose around his airline, with passenger numbers slowly declining its another notch in the rope. There are some very good websites out there for people to air their views on this sort of thing, one I use a lot is http://www.iHateEasyJet.co.uk (covers all low cost airlines)

Folks if you don’t like the terms and conditions or price.Fly with someone else simple.

You have to play by their rules to end up not paying all their excessive charges. I try to avoid them if at all possible, but as others have mentioned, sometimes their prices are what sways me. If all-in they are 50 to 60 quid less than another option and it doesn’t cost too much to get to where you actually want to go, e.g. If I want to go to london and I choose ryanair to Stansted you have to factor in another €25 for the return train into the centre of london, i would go with them…..

I hate though when you are in the queue to board the flight (particularly in stansted) and they are checking everyone’s bags for size, weight etc. Even though you have made sure that your bag is fine and fits within their regulations, you are still sweating, thinking that they are going to haul you out and make you pay a charge. I’ve seen some people getting pretty angry with them when they’ve had to check-in bags etc that they were trying to carry on…. but in fairness, this is generally people trying to bring on big bags and they have nobody to blame but themselves…

I do not like chaep …. Ryan air is cheap ! I have flown with them and dislike it . I will fly aer lingus when possible tho , always better , more relaxed and friendlier .

And I thought the the Irish public thought that O’Leary was bigger than God and could walk on water, glad to see some people aren’t fooled by his self serving antics. There’s any obvious market for Ryanair and they sometimes get you to places that no one else flies to but if I can I will use anyone else but them! Cheap flights if you can carry everything you need in your pockets particularly your food and drink, don’t require any assistance from their staff, happy to land an hour and a half from where you want to go to on a Wednesday afternoon in mid February and return home sometime the following November, no, I’m happy to go with anyone else if possible thanks

Journal.. we need to talk. Every time Michael O’Leary announces something like this, he’s dangling a carrot over your heads. You fall for it every time. They obviously discovered that all publicity is good publicity and that by getting headlines for wacky announcements they give themselves free advertising. Even moreso when they issue retractions and reassurances when it’s discovered that some of the announcements are false. Fair enough, it gives you guys some ad revenue. But have some dignity, leave that crap to the tabloids.

70-90 million people a year and it’s an Irish company. Stop begrudging one of the few successful Irish companies THAT doesn’t need a bail but brings in alot of tax and tourists.

@Gavin Reilly as the journal always points out to “read the article” is it true that they are charging 135 euros “per bag” or is this for the second unchecked bag. I also refrained from using the euro sign as I’m told your site breaks out in a rash or something.

AerLingus only! ?Ryanshitair is a flying piece of junk with terrible customer care. if you 150cm high or more … mind your knee hehehe

Time to lynch O’Leary.