On 26 Feb, 16:39, Air wrote:

All this makes the agreement between Costa Cruises & Ryanair even more
mystifying to me. Anyone going on a 7 + day cruise with family in tow,
needs more than 15kg. A rucksack is of no use.

http://www.cruiseindustrynews.com/cr...9-costa-a-ryan...

Which means more money for Ryanair, for heavy luggage, having the
temerity to check in and use their check-in desk. Ka-ching.

As for the non-EU passport thing. I've checked in online for LH a few
times, all I am asked is do I have an EU passport and I can print a
boarding pass.

By suitable waving of documents, I can get as far as the gate to the
flight to Bankfurt where it will be checked "without scanning" at BHX
by Aviance's finest. I must admit, they haven't shown the levels of
training for document and identification - some of them are still
talking "Walking and Chewing Gum 101". No reason why it won't be
different for FR as LH as FR are more likely to go for even cheaper
handling agents.

Iain