Ryanair has announced that it is increasing its checked-in baggage and airport check-in fees, with immediate effect from bookings made today (January 23).
The budget airline has raised its checked-in baggage charge from £5 to £6 per bag, while the airport check-in fee has increased by £1 to £3.
Justifying the decision, Ryanair’s Peter Sherrard claimed that the move was part of the airline’s attempts to encourage its passengers to take advantage of both their free online check-in service and their ten kilogram hand baggage allowance.
“These will not be the last increases in Ryanair’s checked in baggage or airport check in fees, which will continue to increase over time until we reach our objective of persuading at least 50 per cent of all Ryanair passengers to travel with hand luggage only, use our free web check-in service and avoid airport check-in queues,” he said.
“This will in turn allow us to reduce the number of airport check-in desks that we rent and the handling staff we employ so that we can continue to pass on these handling savings in the form of Europe’s guaranteed lowest fares.”
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January 29th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
If you are crazy or unlucky enough to check in 3 bags for a Ryanair flight you are looking at £66 return! And that’s if you stick under 15kilos, go over that and you pay £7.50 extra per kilo.