Oh yes, obviously. Of course, and finaly after ballancing the whole thing, I pay for the baggage tax, because as you well pointed it´s worthy.

What I wanted to say, is that sometimes airlines simply say that they have to charge you for the baggage because the more pounds a plane carries, the more parafin it consumes. This is what´s applied when you have an extra pound of weight and varies to the route and lenght of the flight. Some make a flat baggage excess rate, some calculate it more throughfully.

If this were the case, I would understand the baggage charge since, I am making the plane to consume more (I would have to ask to be weighted myselft). But this is not the case. The charge is almost flat and doesn´t depend on the lenght of the flight. It´s simply because they want to reduce the handlers costs. And this understandable.

But I see the rise as a deterrent, and not something which costs more or less to Ryanair. I wonder if they will able to cut corners in the handlers. And being a deterrent, I am trying to tell, that althought at the end I pay for it, because the fare might remain the same, sometimes we are forced to.

And what I also pointed, is that there are different niches, and markets in which the passengers could travel with luggage and other which we can´t. I pay for the luggage, I won´t complain but I find it unfair, since it´s not my option leaving the suitcase at home. Of course, it won´t make go to other airline, since the travelling costs are higher.

I have never understood the obession of airlines for fitting a lot of trolleys into the rack. No enough space is 180 passenger take one at the same time, and as airline experts say, 180 passengers trying to leave the plane with their trolleys usually slows evacuation. And we tend to get the bellongings when something wrong happens.

I think that in the case of a sudden turbulence or CAT, I don´t like the idea of flying trolleys over my head. And we don´t count the amount of time missed because the passengers are not able to accomodate themselves and their trolleys as quickly as checking baggage.

Crew gets upset, doors close more late, and slots are missed.

Barajas the biggest in the world. Not at all. Let´s say only in Spain 🙂

The comparision between train vs planes has been established and the plane still wins for 15 minutes. Fares are high on the AVE, and it´s only convenient if you go from city to city. If you connect AVE from the airport, it´s not really convinient.

Spanish airports don´t normaly have railway facilities except Barcelona. ADIF former RENFE (Spanish railway system) and AENA (Spanish BAA) are two ageing fosiles which don´t talk to each other. There are train lines which pass by airports (Jerez only 150 m away) and don´t build train stations.

So if you want to get to train station (Atocha) from Madrid, you have to get the tube changing couple of times, or taxi (which tend to cheat you). Sorry

I was just thinking about this, and I find some people’s angry responses quite amusing..

Let’s say you’re searching for a flight, and you decide to check Ryanair. You find the flights, you then decide whether to check-in a bag or not, you then accept or decline the insurance, and then you get to the final price. Now if you don’t like the price, surely you can just close the webpage and try another airline?! People make it sound like once you’ve gone through the first stage of the booking process, you are then forced to pay the extra fee’s as if there’s no turning back.

And another point…think realisitcally about how much baggage you actually need, and whether you can avoid all the fee’s just by taking cabin baggage. In December I flew to Lanzarote on TCX, and I know they have a very tight hold baggae limit of 15kg. Seeing as I was going for 10 days, I really had to think about what to pack. Upon check-in, it turns out my case was actually 14kg! Surely that then means that a 10kg cabin bag should be sufficient for 5-7 days away?

The problem is when you can´t choose other airline, and you have travel with a suitcase. So not many options then. It sounds to me like a punnishment.

The varies being higher or lower in the different airports of the network. Working for the cruising industry and having to cruise a lot, it means a relatively high amount of cothing which can´t be fitted into the racks.

All mergers are pretty good for airlines, bad for consumers :confused:

Fortunately I made my Santiago-Hahn booking today 😀

I don´t feel the same. We still don´t know if BA had a direct implication in the crash. No definite conclusions, no idea if the crew contributed to this or not. I am sure they have been heroes, but too soon to say it for sure.

So I feel that someone that has suffered such a traumatic event, should have the right to sue whoever they feel, without being insulted. We simply don´t know how we would react if we had been onboard. My support for them. As far as I am concerned, I would probably wait for the official investigation to finnish, but I surely understand them.

I don´t want to put the blame on anyone, but not clear anyone yet. In democracy everyone should have the right to this, and BA defend themselves if they don´t have anything to it with it.

Sorry folks. That´s how I feel.