Ryan Air: You Lunatics!

[mishalak]

Ryan Air is saying that they want to move to not having checked luggage. That we just take the essentials in one carry on bag and buy or rent everything else when we get there. WHAT?? As a clothes horse I certainly hope this doesn't become industry standard. I don't want to have to rely upon what I can find in shops when I get there to wear.

I cannot possibly travel with less than two bags unless it is a very short trip. Well I can, but by Jove I want to bring back books and take at least one change of outfits for each day.

Comments

[sraun]

For Minneapolis, I'm certain you could find a volunteer or twenty to UPS a box to, and have them UPS it back when you leave. It's a work-around, and would require you to be totally without whatever for a few days, but it might be worth it?

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

Well not an issue for now, but it just seemed so out there that I had to write something. I mean who travels with one bag aside from business road warriors?

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

This may well be how RyanAir operates in Europe already (assuming it's the same airline).

Personally, I don't care, as I can go away for a week with no more than one daypack. I'm more interested in getting to go where I want cheaply!

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

I also want to get there cheaply. The thing is that if I end up having to buy up stuff there it defeats that goal. And I've found that I dislike schlepping a big bag through the airport. I'd rather check everything and just take a little bag with my camera and a few other things on the plane.

I heard about this on The World from PRI, so I assume that would be the same RyanAir.

[threeringedmoon.livejournal.com]

But then how would you take all the books and rubber stamps you buy on vacation home? I usually take one bag empty or half empty on the trip out.

[whumpdotcom.livejournal.com]

Drop-shipping boodle you find on the road is a good solution.

minnehaha are experts at that sort of thing.

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

I don't know about anyone else but I carry all my clothes and some food out with me and return with my clothes and the space freed up by the eaten food filled with books.

[whumpdotcom.livejournal.com]

Go to REI and invest in a couple of pairs of ex-Officio travel underwear (boxers or briefs,) and one or two of their t-shirts. You can wash them out in the sink and let them hang to dry in a couple of hours.

Also get a good rollabord suitcase.

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

NEVER! I'd rather walk to my destination than have less than a full complement of clothes. Or more realistically if this spreads I'll just stop traveling by air as it will no longer be useful to me. Travel is about comfort; REI stuff is what I use when roughing it in the howling wilderness.

[jcfiala.livejournal.com]

This is a real airline? Never heard of them before.

*shrug* Well, it's an option for now. I doubt that all airlines will go to this as a standard, because too many people like to bring things with them, or back with them.

But if I'm going somewhere without a lot of baggage, I'll certainly consider it.

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

They're big in Europe. Discount airline over there. I wrote this in response to a report on The World from Public Radio International describing what RyanAir thinks is the future of air travel. Including no checked luggage and everyone printing out their own tickets.

It was an excuse to rant.

[akicif.livejournal.com]

Jack Cohen, the academic who helps a number of SF writers with their alien design (and gives good talks about it at cons, btw) is always hammering home the point that people will often mistake a local thing for a universal.

I've just done the opposite here - I was sure that RyanAir were a small airline, local to the British Isles (if not just Scotland/Northern Ireland), just beginning to expand into Europe and probably more bus-like than train-like (people flying there and back in a day and at fairly short notice, rather than as a holiday airline). Oh, and claiming to fly to X, when they actually fly to an airport fifty miles away with no direct transport link to X....

It's nearly as bad as when I discovered that Carling Black Label, which was the archetypal bad lager of my early youth, was actually Canadian.

I wonder what other global stuff I've been mistaking for local?

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

I don't think they are terribly big in N. America yet, but I just had to rant. I like travel with lots of clothes.

[iamcompubear.livejournal.com]

Its becoming quite common. You do just that ship your baggs to your hotel several days ahead of time. Your bags are in your room waiting for you and you ship them home when you leave exept that witch is nescicary for day to day living(medicines computer change of underwear etc. Ive been known to travel with myself and 3 children and nothing more then carry on for each. It is some times so much easer.

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

For me I'd just stop traveling by air. I'll be like Asimov and never go anywhere except by train. I really don't care for air travel that much with all the stupidity about security checks.

[iamcompubear.livejournal.com]

My husband feels the same way! Me I love to travel to much and would if I had the money. Just me, My laptop, and one rolly polly suit case.

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

I like to travel. I hate the stupid useless security measures like them not allowing me to lock my suitcase. If I had the money (and thus the time) I'd travel by car.

[iamcompufrog.livejournal.com]

They tell you to lock your suitcase to prevent it from accidentally opening...
Then tell you to NOT lock your suitcase to allow them to deliberately open it.

There is NO proof, whatsoever, that the "increased" security has actually prevented one single act of terrorism.

There is proof that the increased security has caused a great deal of trauma, expense, and harassment to people who have no intention of causing anyone or anything harm, and - for the most part - are guilty of the crime of forgetting what is permitted this week.

What I have to go through, as a diabetic, to get my insulin and needles through security is beyond rediculous... So I gamble and put them through baggage...
In an emergency, they can be replaced.

sigh...

[marykaykare.livejournal.com]

I traveled on RyanAir once while in the UK and hated it. The limit for checked luggage at that time was 22 kilos which meant I had to leave things with a friend. I refuse absolutely every to fly on Southwest again and if Ryan goes with this silly rule, they're on the list too. I prefer to be treated like a human being, thanks very much.

MKK

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

What's wrong with Southwest? I ask because I've never flown them.

[marykaykare.livejournal.com]

I hate hate hate their policy of no seat assignments. I really think it brings out the worst in people as everyone pushes and shoves trying to get the seat they want. If you change planes during a SW trip you have to stand in line for a boarding pass all over again since there are no seat assignments and you board by group numbers. And they encourage their staff to be 'funny' and 'amusing'. Very few people are as funny as they think they are. No food and only a small glass of whatever you ask for to drink. No music, no movie. (Okay, I almost never watch the movie, but I frequently listen to the audio programming.) Flying is not much fun on any airline these days but I find it most unpleasant on SW. They used to hand out boarding passes only at the gate so that if you had luggage to check and had to change planes in the course of the trip you stood in line 3 times instead of once. However that's changed slightly on account of the whole security thing so now you'd only have to stand in line twice.

[kijjohnson.livejournal.com]

Since a seven-tier skirt fills a 25" Pullman all by itself, I completely agree with you. On the other hand, such a skirt does make excellent packing material if I have to mail anything....