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Ryanair to abolish check-in desks
In message , at 12:42:52 on Thu, 26
Feb 2009, tim..... remarked: (and I don't routinely know what type of plane I am on. I barely notice if it has two big turbines at the back or propellers on the wings or if it was made by Boeing or Airbus, I certainly don't know if it's a 600 or an 800 - if indeed both/either of those exist) I'd suggest you don't make assertive statements about 737-800 luggage bins, in that case. In message , at 12:01:21 on Thu, 26 Feb 2009, tim..... remarked: There is just enough room in the overhead lockers of a Boeing 737-800 to take one piece of hand baggage of the given size for each passenger if the plane is full leaving a little extra for coats and things. Not in the ones that I have been on. -- Roland Perry |
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Ryanair to abolish check-in desks
In message , at 12:42:20 on Thu, 26
Feb 2009, pete remarked: the flights aren't any emptier than during the summer. Yes, because they adjust their schedules and fares. Their website has loading figures which are very consistent all year round. So the mad rush to board is not so much to get a plum seat as to be able to stash your bag somewhere close to where you'll be sitting. There are vanishingly few "plum seats" on modern airbus/737/777-style aircraft (it's largely a feature of last-century wide bodied aircraft, and more importantly you'll be stuck for hours in a poor seat), so finding a place for luggage is indeed a good reason to be on board early. -- Roland Perry |
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Ryanair to abolish check-in desks
MC wrote:
"Roland Perry" wrote in message ... In message , at 12:26:34 on Sun, 22 Feb 2009, tim..... remarked: That was a problem when we had toddlers and used to carry milk (for feeding). Of course, that has other "issues" now as well. The only time someone tried to bounce my hand baggage as overweight was Emirates (7kg I think). It was a while ago, but I probably transferred a book to my checked luggage. -- Qantas weighed my wifes carry bag once and found it was a couple of kilo over so rather than make us put the stuff in our cases they "gave" us one of those zip up shopping bags to which we transfered said items. We ended up having an "extra" carry on bag (three in total between the two of us) which did not seem a problem to them. They sited saftey issues of one bag weighing more than 6 kilo should it fall from the overheads. That is a real problem in the event of severe turbulence, and I would imagine that loose/flying objects are the main cause of injuries in such situations. Closely followed I expect from injuries to people who were not wearing seatbelts (so they become the loose/flying object). I've heard of occasions when people's heads are forced into the bottom of the overhead bins with them ending up as paraplegics. Nasty. Most airline & aviation "rules" are there for safety first and foremost. |
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Ryanair to abolish check-in desks
In message , at 14:55:53 on Thu, 26 Feb
2009, chunkyoldcortina remarked: They sited saftey issues of one bag weighing more than 6 kilo should it fall from the overheads. That is a real problem in the event of severe turbulence, and I would imagine that loose/flying objects are the main cause of injuries in such situations. Closely followed I expect from injuries to people who were not wearing seatbelts (so they become the loose/flying object). I've heard of occasions when people's heads are forced into the bottom of the overhead bins with them ending up as paraplegics. Nasty. Most airline & aviation "rules" are there for safety first and foremost. And the bins have allowable weights marked on them, much greater than 6kg per passenger. As for seat belts, airlines are very conservative and insist they are worn even in very slight turbulence, or when turbulence is predicted (but doesn't happen). -- Roland Perry |
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Ryanair to abolish check-in desks
"Roland Perry" skrev i meddelandet ... In message , at 03:40:51 on Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Lennart Petersen remarked: I suspect that people with a "non EU/EAA/Swiss" passport will be asked to use the bag drop "not a check-in desk honest guv". And what if they have no luggage? While it may be unusual, it is not at all impossible on a morning flight to Europe as the person could be returning that afternoon. And furthermore it's not unusual nowadays with carry-on luggage only. Please explain why you think you can evade airline visa checks simply by carrying hand baggage only. I didn't say that. |
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Ryanair to abolish check-in desks
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 |
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Ryanair to abolish check-in desks
In message , at 16:39:57 on
Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Air remarked: 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. The rucksack is the 10Kg of hand baggage, you can have 15kg in the hold for a modest (compared to a week's cruise) fee. Is 25Kg really not enough each? -- Roland Perry |
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, at 08:57:34 on Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Iain Bowen remarked: 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. You have completely missed the point. The gum-chewing agents you refer to will be making virtually no checks on EU passports, because they don't need to. And they'll making just one check on a non-EU passport holding online checker-in: "Go away, this maybe isn't valid, but I have no way of telling". Which is why I expect that such pax will still need to check in (albeit at a desk renamed a "bag drop"), so they can be issued with a "real" boarding pass, and the gummers can then assume the passport was checked for validity when the boarding pass was issued. -- Roland Perry |
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Ryanair to abolish check-in desks
In message , at 16:22:39 on Thu, 26
Feb 2009, Lennart Petersen remarked: I suspect that people with a "non EU/EAA/Swiss" passport will be asked to use the bag drop "not a check-in desk honest guv". And what if they have no luggage? While it may be unusual, it is not at all impossible on a morning flight to Europe as the person could be returning that afternoon. And furthermore it's not unusual nowadays with carry-on luggage only. Please explain why you think you can evade airline visa checks simply by carrying hand baggage only. I didn't say that. So what are you trying to say? -- Roland Perry |
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Ryanair to abolish check-in desks
"Roland Perry" wrote in message ... In message , at 12:42:52 on Thu, 26 Feb 2009, tim..... remarked: (and I don't routinely know what type of plane I am on. I barely notice if it has two big turbines at the back or propellers on the wings or if it was made by Boeing or Airbus, I certainly don't know if it's a 600 or an 800 - if indeed both/either of those exist) I'd suggest you don't make assertive statements about 737-800 luggage bins, in that case. I was making the comment generally abut flying with FR FR haven't scrapped their old planes they are still using them tim |
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