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Old February 22nd, 2009, 01:26 PM posted to rec.travel.europe,uk.railway,uk.politics.misc,alt.travel.uk.air
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Default Ryanair to abolish check-in desks


"pete" wrote in message
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On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:36:39 +0000, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 09:04:04 on Sun,
22 Feb 2009, Neil Williams remarked:
That's a somewhat different agenda, and could be assisted by allowing a
much more generous carry-on allowance.

The issue with this, apart from that it's the Government and BAA that
restrict it by size and to 2 items (all airports now?),


The "2 items" is a bid to reduce security queues, but I don't think the
*airports* have an agenda to restrict carry-on size, other than as part
of a general agreement with the airlines. In fact I think Heathrow is
the only airport where I've seen the "does your bag fit" gauges (in the
transit area) and policed by security people - rather than at the
check-in desk or the gate and policed by the airline staff.

From my observations at EMA, the gate gauges are used primarily to
extract some extra revenue from passengers whose bags are half an inch
too big, rather than to trap those people with hugely oversize bags.


Some pax really do take the **** with what they try to drag onto a plane.


OTOH same airlines TTP with what they *won't* allow you to take.

I once tried to carry on a very small bag on an Air Berlin flight and the
check in staff wouldn't let me because it was a kilo over their ridiculously
tiny weight allowance (5K IIRC) I had to stand there and remove all the
heavy, but small Items, and stuff them into my coat pockets (fortunately it
was spring and I was wearing one!)

tim