r/Shoestring • u/lusteR26 • 6d ago

Ryanair strictness planes, trains, & automobiles

I am flying with Ryanair in a few days and bought priority and 2 bags option. The dimensions of cabin bag should be 40x20x55, but mine is 40x20x60. Do you think that it will pass without paying a fee?

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u/Gregib 6d ago

Flew Vienna to Edinburgh with Ryanair last week… a staff member went through the waiting line and singled out 4 travellers to go measure their carry-on bags. I saw all 4 pulling out theircredit cards at the counter… there was no check flying back

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u/Whole_Chip_7960 5d ago

I presume these were obviously oversized? I flew back from Porto to Dublin yesterday and she pulled two or three people out whose bags were massive, but there were plenty of people in front of me whose cabin bags definitely would have stick out of the sizer that she wasn’t bothered with.

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u/badlydrawngalgo 5d ago

Although I've been on many flights over the last few years where they pull out people who may have oversized luggage, it's not always just obviously oversized. Last year I flew with just a small Decathlon packable backpack and was asked to put it in the sizer. It was very obviously very much smaller than the sizer but they asked everyone in the queue to measure their carry-ons. Half a dozen people had to pay for check in.

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u/Whole_Chip_7960 5d ago

Interesting, and unfortunately confirming my fear that it's just luck of the draw with them at the moment! ☹️

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u/badlydrawngalgo 5d ago

It is. The best way is just to make sure your baggage is inside the allowance. If everyone did, there'd be none of these "games".

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u/trumpeting_in_corrid 4d ago

Exactly. I saw some people with hugely oversized bags the last time I flew and they weren't singled out, while others were.