PICS: Ryanair’s New Baggage Rule Is Already Causing A Major Problem

Ryanair’s new baggage rules were just announced this week and we were all fairly delighted to hear that it would be saving most people a bit of money.

The airline confirmed it would give a free 10kg check bag to all two million non-priority customers who booked before 31 Aug, to travel after 1 November.

All these passengers have had the €8 cost of their priority boarding refunded but Ryanair will still allow them to travel with priority boarding free of charge.

But it appears that this news comes with a glaring flaw that we should have seen coming.

If everyone is using the priority queue to board the plane, well, it’s not really a priority queue any more.

Now that @Ryanair has forced us to pay if we want bring a cabin bag and another small bag,the queue for Priority boarding is ridiculously long. pic.twitter.com/gS9AHBDMlW
— Gordon (@purplegordon) September 6, 2018

Unsurprisingly, people don't seem too happy about it...

Priority queue longer than regular queue for @ryanair flight. Economics of “priority boarding” are breaking down... pic.twitter.com/k1w9vOAl5L
— Gav Wood (@gavofyork) July 5, 2018

Due to Ryanair’s new rules the priority queue is now substantially longer than the non-priority queue. pic.twitter.com/gdxRTxnStV
— Louise McSharry (@louisemcsharry) September 7, 2018