CARRY ON AIRLINES.. Ryanair to save EUR20m with bags check-in ban.Byline: MICHELLE MICHELLE Mid-Infrared Echelle Spectrograph O'KEEFFE RYANAIR are planning to ban all checked-in luggage in a bid to save EUR EUR In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Euro. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 20 million a year, it emerged yesterday. Holiday-makers will soon be forced to carry their own suitcases through security, departure lounges and across the runway to their plane as early as next year. Passengers will only be allowed bring one piece of hand luggage on the aircraft and a second one will have to be left outside the plane to be loaded into the hold. Aer Lingus slammed the move claiming families who are going on a typical two-week break in the sun with children will be put under pressure to fit everything they need into less luggage. They said it could also add to the problem of lost luggage with tired and stressed passengers inadvertently collecting the wrong bags. But Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary said getting one of their flights will be like hopping on a bus. He added: "The move forms part of our plan to cut back on airport services and reduce costs while reducing the time passengers spend in airports. "We are going to move away from check-in luggage to more carryon car·ry·on adj. Small or compact enough to be carried aboard and stowed on an airplane, train, or bus by a passenger: carryon luggage. n. A carryon bag, suitcase, or other item. luggage. "This is not the end of civilisation as we know it, it only sounds revolutionary. I can assure you it is not." Ryanair is expected to stop passengers checking in baggage next year, but will allow two or more pieces of carry-on luggage as it steps up its drive to reduce airport handling charges. Aer Lingus said yesterday people have "had enough of Ryanair misery". A spokesman added: "Ryanair arrogantly slams the door on families hoping to get away on holiday by dictating that everyone will have to cram everything into a little bag." The Dublin Airport Authority Dublin Airport Authority plc or Údaras Aerfort Bhaile Átha Cliath cpt in Irish (known until 1 October 2004 as Aer Rianta cpt[1]) is the state owned airport authority in the Republic of Ireland. said it needed to see the proposals of the plan before it could comment. Britain's Civil Aviation Authority Civil Aviation Authority civil (Brit) n → Behörde f für Zivilluftfahrt said it won't consider Ryanair's plans until the airline gives notice that it will go ahead with it. Ryanair is already scrapping check-in desks for passengers from the start of October meaning people will have to register online. And the airline is also planning to charge passengers as much as EUR3 to use the toilet and to offer in-air gambling services. CAPTION(S): RADICAL Michael O'Leary |
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