Originally Posted by
brian_dromey
At one point Ryanair were guaranteeing 90 bags in the cabin. I think the numbers you have listed are for the -900ER/-9MAX. Google suggests 174 for the Space Bins compared to 118 for the Pivot bins for the -800/-8MAX. The big innovation is getting bags on their short side, rather than flat. 174 would seems a realistic number even for very full FR flights.
When the bags were measured and controlled at the gate there were more bags getting on, since they relented on that the bags have got bigger as people want to take more. Maybe go back to old regime.