Ryanair to increase oversized bag bonus for staff

There’s just something so utterly predatory about the flight industry.

It’s not like a bus where you can just wait 10 minutes for the next one. people who are flying HAVE to get on that plane. They can charge whatever they like and keep you at ransom.

I remember a few years back I had a flight to germany with a stop over in the netherlands. I was told at the desk that they could guarantee my flight to the Netherlands but couldn’t guarantee my flight to Germany because they had over booked.

I literally had no recourse. Just go to the Netherlands and hope my connecting flight that I paid for has room for me? I swore never to fly with KLM ever again, but quickly discovered that overbooking flights by 30% is common practice in the industry, and people who paid to leave on a flight being forced to wait potentially overnight is not uncommon.

The only way around it is to pay an extra £15 “optional” charge to book a specific seat number.

I know this has nothing to do with the article posted but there’s just absolutely zero stopping them is there?

I have taken Ryan air flights at least once a fortnight sometimes twice a week, for 4 years, never had an issue with the baggage. I am sure there is some examples of overzealous gate agents that tell you it doesn’t fit, but, if you follow the rules you are okay.

If you want a bigger cabin bag, buy priority or fly another airline.

Ryanair is minimal offerings, for often a minimal price

There should be a surcharge on overweight people too.

How is it fair a 100KG person can take say 25KG luggage yet a 70KG person is limited to the same 25KG.

Charge overweight people extra the same way baggage which is overweight is charged extra.

I know I’ll get a lot of downvotes but I actually really like Michael O’Leary. His model clearly works and whenever I’ve seen him talk in interviews he can back up his actions with good points. I mean what really is the issue with this if you just follow their rules? It incentivises staff to catch people trying to break the rules and incentivises passengers not to attempt to break them.

I’ve flown Ryanair many times and personally never had an issue once with them.

I used to fly Ryanair at least once a month for work and honestly never had an issue with their baggage rules or fees. What’s put me off completely is their social media. I don’t like the way they mock genuine posts from people with real problems or concerns. That “rude for clicks” strategy might seem funny to them, but it’s just rude, dumb, childish and stupid. Worse, it encourages other brands to treat their own customers the same way. The flights were fine, but the attitude has made me stop flying with them altogether.