It has built its success on ultra-basic fares for even more basic services. Its restrictions terrify passengers from half of Europe. From December XNUMX, however, Ryanair - perhaps in an attempt to make people forget check-ins that looked more and more like checkpoints - decided to open the second piece of hand luggage in the cabin.
From next month, therefore, it will no longer be forbidden to carry a bag or a small suitcase in addition to the only hand luggage now permitted. The news was announced by the manager in Italy of the company with low-cost fares, John Alborante, during the presentation of the new Alghero-Bologna route, operational every day from 3 February, which joins the new Catania-Bologna service operating from December 18th.
So farewell to the tragicomic scenes of desperate passengers who try to challenge the law of the impenetrability of bodies by stuffing everything into the one - and not too big (55 x 40 x 20 centimeters and weighing 10 kilos) - baggage available. The problem is that, in the event of excess weight or the impossibility of inserting the aforementioned trolley into the now famous Ryanair branded basket – the surcharges often exceed the cost of the plane ticket itself.
In reality, the announcement had already been made some time ago – but with the usual deadline of December 35st – in London for Stansted airport. In that case, they had also specified the dimensions of the second hand baggage allowed: 20 x 20 x XNUMX centimetres.
The choice of Ryanair is part of one more broad strategy aimed at giving a human face to what for a long time was considered an airline with rather odious rules. Among the changes taking place, there is also the reduction of choices to click in the endless process of booking a flight or the attempt to find airports that are not 100 kilometers by bus from the chosen destination. The initiative that stands out is that of deciding to silence the bombastic announcements of lotteries, rich prizes and cotillions during the flight, in a triumph of trumpet blasts. But we mustn't exult too much: the rule only applies to night flights.
