This is from an advertiser in our Bulletin, Debra Foremski via Jane Makepeace and Suzanne Standland:

We may just make a tiny weeny dent in their billions by passing this on. Just so you are warned….

Ryan (we are raking it in) Air fact. My friend has just booked her newborn onto a flight. My friend and her husband were flying on one of the deals which meant that they were only paying 2.00 pounds each however, they were charged a 20.00 pound standard fee to carry the baby on board and the little mite didn’t even get a baggage allowance! Funny, I always thought that infants under two travelled free!?!

Now read below about this new, latest money making scheme Ryan Air have just come up with……So, if you buy your duty free in the airport, it may just cost you muchas, muchas more…..No such thing as a cheap flight…..D

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Dear All,

Please pass this on to everyone you know.

It seems Ryanair are now sneakily applying a new charge at the boarding gate to anyone who has purchased duty free or food, and where these items DO NOT fit inside your 1 piece of hand luggage. Before now you were obliged to have only 1 piece of luggage as you passed through security, allowing you to make your purchases of wine, cigarettes, mags, presents etc. and therefore take extra shopping bags on the flight with you. This is no longer the case and they are now prepared to delay flights in order to charge people 30€ (at the gate) with more than 1 bag.

Jane

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Suzanne Standland
Date: 2009/2/3

Here’s the detail I received from Ryanair re hand baggage restrictions at the boarding gate. Any extra bags/duty free purchases HAVE to fit into your one piece of permitted baggage, or else they’ll make you pay 30 quid/euro or deny boarding..Pass it on please to anyone you know who may be travelling & not realise !
Best regards, Suzanne

> To: suzannestandland
> Subject: Cabin Baggage Restrictions
> From: info@frsc.net

> •PLEASE NOTE THAT ONLY ONE ITEM OF CABIN BAGGAGE PER PASSENGER (excluding infants) WITH A MAXIMUM WEIGHT OF 10KG AND DIMENSIONS OF 55CM X 40CM X 20CM – http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/faqs.php?sect=bag&quest=cabinbaggageallowance
>
> •IMPORTANT– YOUR HANDBAG, BRIEFCASE, LAPTOP ETC. MUST BE CARRIED WITHIN YOUR 1 PERMITTED PIECE OF CABIN BAGGAGE.
>
> •We reserve the right to cancel your reservation without refund and to deny you boarding, if you arrive at the boarding gate with more than one item of cabin baggage or if the item exceeds the maximum permitted dimensions
>
> •Cabin baggage must contain no prohibited items – http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/faqs.php?sect=bag&quest=prohibiteditems
>
> If you now wish to travel with a checked bag, you can add this to your reservation up to 4 hours prior to flight departure by clicking the following link and retrieving your booking.
>
> https://www.bookryanair.com/SkySales/FRManageBooking.aspx?culture=EN-GB&pos=SBFORM
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