“Io scoppio in lacrime”: come la confusione di trasporto aerea ha innescato la riga legale
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz70ny09x07o
di Ambitious_Lan
“Io scoppio in lacrime”: come la confusione di trasporto aerea ha innescato la riga legale
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz70ny09x07o
di Ambitious_Lan
21 commenti
You need a mechanism to limit the overhead bags because there isn’t space for everyone’s.
From experience EasyJet measure suitcases but not holdalls or backpacks
Best solution is to get one that complies with Ryanair sizes as they are the smallest and no other airline will whinge
So he measured the suitcase, but not the wheels – AKA not actually measuring the suitcase?
And then he cried (out of humiliation?) when he had to move his belongings from his suitcase into a bin bag on the way back? Makes you wonder what he had in that suitcase (skidmarks in his tighty whiteys, “personal devices”).
It’s common knowledge by now that cheap airlines try to fleece you every step of the way – you kinda get what you pay for in this regard and it’s often only actually a tiny bit more expensive to travel BA/KLM etc once you factor in the chargeable extras
Great.
Now because of one hysterical traveller we will all have to obey strict carry on rules.
Gone are the years of squeezing in extra luggage
He not only broke down and cried in the airport, he then decided to make that public information. I’d keep that kind of humiliation to myself, I reckon
Looking at the measurements, EasyJet seems to have a really weird size for an underseat bag and I’m having trouble imagining how one that is maxed out would fit under a seat properly. It’s possibly designed to maximise the potential for charging for conversion to an overhead in cases like this. I’d bet the one this guy bought was somewhat more than borderline given that it wouldn’t fit any other airline’s definition of underseat.
I never bother with bags now. Got a Stuffa Jacket and all clothes needed for a few days are worn onto the plane. Then got a jacket to wear as well.
Used on Ryan Air, Whizz and EasyJet with no issues
If you are taking a real cabin bag, not the ‘handbag’ sized under-seat bags that Easyjet, Ryanair, Wizz, etc. allow, then I have found that British Airways is often cheaper for flights that any of those ‘low cost’ airlines once you have added on all the extras.
Even on their cheapest fare BA allows you to bring on both a 40 x 30 x 15cm under-seat bag and also an enormous 56 x 45 x 25cm that you can put up to 23kg in.
And I have a hardshell bag that is the exact 56 x 45 x 25cm size and whenever I use it there are looks from other passengers of ‘*they are going to take that off you*’ but it fits absolutely perfectly into the sizing frame.
Thanks to people like this, we all pay a little less for our low-cost air travel.
1. No shows
2. People whose baggage is over maximum spec
3. People who don’t check in beforehand
4. Speedy boarders
5. Extra legroom people
6. People who buy hold luggage on the day of travel
7. People who pay to sit in a certain seat
They all get fleeced to different degrees and that helps keep the basic cost of a no-frills ticket down.
We should be grateful there are so many people out there who either don’t read the rules properly or are willing to pay a bit more for extra something. They are subsidising your cheap flight.
The rules might be ridiculous and inconsistent but as long as you take the trouble to read them, they will, to an extent, make your own ticket slightly more affordable.
You know this is absolutely an arbitrary and inconsistent policy because you can bring duty free purchases from the airport into the cabin.
The last 15% of people boarding the plane don’t deserve to lose half their legroom to their appropriately sized bag because of everyone else jamming in oversized luggage. Have some respect for other passengers
I’ve started just checking in a 10 kg bag on Ryanair flights. You usually pay 10-20 quid for it, and that buys you freedom from all the wankery over bags at the gate and on the aircraft and freedom from having to restrict what you take with you. People also forget that Ryanair makes its money on the short turnaround times at the airport, so the bags are always offloaded in very quick time, and there’s usually so few checked bags on the flight that it only takes a couple of minutes max for yours to appear on the carousel. A lot of the time all of the checked bags are dumped on the carousel in one load and you don’t wait at all. For the sake of a few extra quid and a few extra minutes you can opt out of an awful lot of the stress.
Anyone who cries because they are told they can’t have an oversized bag should just be kicked off the plane and banned from flying for life.
This guy could have just paid the baggage fee and checked it at the gate. All this nonsense about being forced to unpack his grimy keks into a bin bag is just this dude acting the victim. I bet he loved the sense of victimhood he got from this situation
Bag is too big, because people don’t know how to follow the rules so he feels humiliated and cries in the airport which isn’t too big of a deal, some people are under a lot of stress but what I don’t understand if he felt so humiliated why go to the bbc and tell the nation?
Armed with a measuring tape, but not the wherewithal to search “easyJet compliant”.
Little or no sympathy.
The EU is right that hand luggage sizes should be standardised. But for now, the rules are set out before you fly, and passengers have the choice to pay more to avoid this. It sounds like this passenger got it wrong and rather than accept that and pay the fees, he doubled down and ended up having a bad experience.
Saw this happen at BRS>GLA, bloke had a hand luggage suitcase that fit but they pinged him on the handle sticking out still when retracted. He was very plain with them and didn’t get aggy, and then when they still wouldn’t accept it he turned to the hundred people sat there and asked _”Does anyone have a screwdriver?”_ (to remove it).
I felt for him but I also laughed at the idea of someone saying _”yes”_ and immediately being tackled by security.
dont mean to be a dick here, but he bought a suit case too big. those wheels are part of the case, they dont magically not count. They dont disappear and not take up space in lockers/underseats etc.
I always use a soft case for hand luggage, rather than a hard wheeled case. Its fine to carry on a strap and its lighter and squishy to fit better in the measurement cage or on the plane. Anything less than a week or so and I just take that, not hold luggage.
[cheap flights](https://youtu.be/ZAg0lUYHHFc?si=YBbRe7bemX6i4jcT)
When booking a flight you get asked multiple times are you sure your baggage allowance is enough, these are the sizes you have booked, are you sure it’s ok, if you get to the airport and it’s too big this will happen. Then people turn up to the airport and are surprised when it happens. If you want to fly to Cyprus for £10 there is going to be a ‘catch’. Twenty years ago at the beginning of the budget airline takeoff I could understand this kind of situation however there should be no sympathy now for not reading the rules. I would however support a standard size of free carry on luggage that all budget airlines have to abide by.
Tbh my main issue is the supposed budget airlines aren’t even that cheap anymore. Booked an easyJet flight the other day and it was cheaper to take a single hold bag between us than two ‘big’ cabin bags, which when you also consider not having to comply with the cabin security restrictions (active holiday) was a no brainier even if it means we have to wait for it at the other end (although my recent experience is this has got a lot quicker).