{"id":24371,"date":"2018-11-02T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=24371"},"modified":"2018-11-02T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T15:00:00","slug":"ryanair-raises-hand-luggage-costs-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/ryanair-raises-hand-luggage-costs-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryanair raises hand luggage costs again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>As of November 1st, Ryanair&#8217;s hand luggage policy has changed for the second time this year in order to reduce delayed flights.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A statement on the airline&#8217;s website read: &#8220;Main benefits of this new policy will be reduced flight delays and cheaper checked bag option. Pack more liquids into a 10kg checked wheelie bag. Walk to the boarding gate hands-free.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Under the new policy, non-priority boarding passengers are allowed to bring a small personal bag into the cabin free of charge. However, there will be a charge \u00a38 to check in a small suitcase weighing up to 10 kilograms (22 pounds) or \u00a325 for a suitcase weighing up to 20 kilograms (44 pounds).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24416\" style=\"width: 856px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24416\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24416\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-02-at-13.48.17-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"846\" height=\"818\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-24416\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Infographics by Lucija Duzel and Ruby Naldrett | Created with Piktochart<\/p><\/div>\n<p>However, under the policy introduced in January, non-priority passengers were allowed to bring a small handbag into the cabin, alongside a small suitcase free of charge.<\/p>\n<p>Departures suffered major delays due to slow boarding as a result of too many handbags and small suitcases. This led Ryanair to terminate the freehold baggage that they usually offered.<\/p>\n<p>Ryanair customers were not too happy about this and expressed their anger on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jamesashton20\/status\/1057894705860620289\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jamesashton20\/status\/1057894705860620289<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StAndrews68\/status\/1057915054270701568\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/StAndrews68\/status\/1057915054270701568<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Passengers who purchase priority boarding, \u00a36, will still be allowed to bring a &#8216;personal bag&#8217; and a small suitcase onto the plane.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Words: Lucija Duzel | Subbing: Victoria Locke<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of November 1st, Ryanair&#8217;s hand luggage policy has changed for the second time this year in order to reduce delayed flights. A statement on the airline&#8217;s website read: &#8220;Main benefits of this new policy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":24377,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,130],"tags":[1561,1653,2424,2834,2983,3873,4260,4685,4995,5389,6457,6462],"class_list":["post-24371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","category-travel","tag-cost","tag-customers","tag-flights","tag-hand-luggage","tag-holiday","tag-luggage","tag-money","tag-outrage","tag-price","tag-ryanair","tag-travel","tag-travelling"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}