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Ryanair boss plans to price luggage out of hold
Increased fees for checking-in baggage will make cut costs for airline and change the way Ryanair passengers fly.
Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary
Ryanair will increase its baggage charges, the budget airline's boss Michael O'Leary said today, in a move that could see the charge for hold luggage increase well over the standard €20 fee per piece, each way.
O'Leary said he wants to halve the number of passengers checking in a bag from the present 20 per cent, because eliminating checked-in bags cuts his airliners' fuel burn, reduces handling costs and speeds up turnarounds - all cost-cutting measures that will make Ryanair a leaner, meaner airline giant.
O'Leary said making passengers pay to take baggage into the cabin was also a possibility: "At some point in the future I think it's likely that airlines will do it."
Ryanair is notorious for cutting costs by charging customers for anything in a bid at modifying customers' behaviour. By removing check-in counters to save on wages, clients must print out their own boarding pass or face an €80 penalty to have one printed at the airport.
Even pilots have to fly slower to reduce the fuel burn. O'Leary says Ryanair is trying to fly 2 minutes slower per flight, to save €91 million a year.
Even cabin crew must pay something like €2,800 for their course and then pay for their own uniform.
At the same time, Ryanair demands subsidised landing fees from airports, usually secondary bases over 80 miles outside major cities, to have the low-fares airline's traffic of passengers pass through their airports.
The Malta Tourism Authority spends over €5 million a year in so called 'route development' to open new routes from underserved destinations in Europe from where Ryanair flies.
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If you have luggage, this will cost you at least 50 euros per person for a round trip with Ryanair. More worrying is the fact that Ryanair planes seem to take just enough fuel to make it to their destination inorder to reduce weight and so save on fuel bills. On a flight from Malta to Stanstead, my daughter's plane had to land in France to take on more fuel. The reason given by the captain was that they had encountered unexpected head winds and so had used more fuel.
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FR should have not been allowed to fly into malta at all in the first place or if allowed then same yard stick should have been implemented by the former government. and there were valid obvious reasons to do so. MLA is just one international airport FR fly into secondary airports. competition is healthy but on a same level playing field. we need more carriers flying into malta why not. as long as they can generate new business. FR just took the customers from peter to give them to paul. shame on PN !!!
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Just boycott them. I refuse to fly with them any more. You are treated like cattle. Their website is designed to trick you. Have you ever managed to opt out of the insurance cover that they foist on you? The option is hidden in a drop down list purposely so you cannot find it. I fly other airlines without the fear of being stopped at the gate cos my hand luggage is a centimeter over their size,
Thanks but no thanks.
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I have travelled on different airline, but AIR MALTA remains my favorite, and apart from that we have to safeguard own interests and our own country, like other countries do.
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A farmer once had a donkey that he used to go to the market to buy veggies and fruits to sell. He fed the donkey x amount of straws everyday. Once he decided to remove one straw everyday to save money. He went down to 12 straws a day but finally the donkey collapsed and died and farmer ended up carring the merchandise on his shoulder.
Priscilla Darmenia •
Once I tried Ryanair from Trapani to Malta for an emergency return to home. The flight ticket was not expensive but then I had to pay extra for this and for that, that in total I ended up paying more than 400 Euros. -
If it were not for an emergency with that money I could have sepent a night in a hotel and catch AirMalta from Catania and still have change in my pocket. - Thank you Ryanair but never again I will fly with you.
Joseph MELI •
If Ryanair persist with these total travel cost increase measures they will soon match Air Malta's fare structure and their invidious measures adopted to increase revenue -such as the latest massive commission reduction payable to FATTA members-yet the many "consultant" fees remain on the upgrade as well as high-end (mostly part-time) management pay sructures and scales
