Cheap flights, stung on excess baggage

I will never travel with ryanair again and I wouldnt advise anyone else to!

Ryanair treat their customers like filth and this is generally known and well documented.

Michael O'Leary is an arrogant bombastic loudmouth who runs an incredibly succesful and profitable business.

If you don't like him or his airline, don't travel on it. There are plenty of others. At least Easyjet treat customers with dignity.

I quite agree with McFly! There are too many moaners today who expect to pay nothing to fly abroad and also receive 5 star service in the process! As he rightly says...it was only a few years ago that cheap no frills flights were almost unheard of and you'd have to pay a couple of hundred quid for most short haul return flights. We've never had it so good! Stop moaning and research your baggage allowance before you depart! It's not rocket science, there is no secret agenda...it is all there on the airline web sites. If you don't like the service provided, don't use that airline again.

Even with baggage fees you couldn't have gone to Valencia for the price you paid with Ryanair compared to only 10 years ago. If you had the foresight to check in three bags for your return it would have only cost you a fiver so you can't compain to Ryanair for your complacency and bad planning.

I don't think just because you are travelling with a discount airline they should treat you badly. Baggage handling is an important part of travelling. The contractual conditions for such handling should be made plain in the ticket when one buys it. Included in the contract should be a plain statement of how long you are expected to queue to drop your baggage. Heathrow airport sounds like a third world one. I shall try to avoid it.

I refuse to bring presetns for friends family or relatives. I expect my baggage allowance to be 25 Kgs as standard.

I fly to North America a few times a year and do it mostly on low-cost airlines (unless there is a deal). I pack as little as possible and can usually make due with just a carry on and buy what I need in terms of extra toiletries (and I'm female). No hassle waiting at baggage pick up, no weight to worry about, and no wondering if my bags will be lost. Yes, it means you can't buy loads or bring people presents, but it avoids the hassle. If I have to bring luggage, I use the smaller suitcase because its hard to go over in weight with it. If you're flying discount air, you have to be prepared to play the game.

I have to complain. I have been travelling by air for more than forty years now, but this years tops them all for passenger discomfort and stress.

Today I travelled to Heathrow Terminal 4 early in the morning. British Airways and other airlines could not give a damn. British Airways makes you queue for 1 hour in a cattle market just to drop your bag. It doesn't matter if you have already booked online, you are merely a lump of meat to them. I exclaimed I was bloody disappointed by the wat I had been treated to the baggage drop operative. He told me that if I swore again I would not be allowed to travel. What an indignity!

Then we queued for another half-an-hour to go through security.

Then we suffer the commercialism of airports with rip-off prices in so-called "duty free". Did you know BAA themselves own half the shops as a monopoly in the airside zone? What a crooked arrangement! We have such useless laws in this country to protect the consumer.

Don't bother complaining to the people in power: they just don't want to know. The operatives have no power, their supervisiors have no authority. The system is one where everyone who counts is hiding from you as they are really scared.

Here is a useful page that has links to the baggage rules for most of the European airlines. It may help others avoid costly mistakes.

http://www.allcheapflights.co.uk/Travel-Guides/6/Airline-Luggage-Allowance

Easyjet are just as bad. £6 per hold luggage or £8 at the airport. Expect to pay for things nowadays, nothing is cheap anymore and no real bargains around unless you are on the internet all the time and have gone cross eyed or your blood pressure has gone off the scale, trying to book a 'deal'.
Just play the game, wear all your clothes on the flight, don't buy anything on the plane and complain when fat people don't pay extra for their weight. Or stay at home and eat as much as you can to join the fat people who seem to benefit from the airlines bargains.

Well done ryanair I say.

WHY only go with two cases, their was five of you, so each take their own, Problem solved.

the RULES about overweight baggage is there for a REASON.

Bet you don't do it again.