The Sunday Times (Travel sect. p4 27/06) report that Ryanair are increasing hand baggage allocation this week to 10kg/ pax. A quote from Ryanair says "We are moving towards no hold baggage and hope the additional allowance will encourage pax to carry just hand luggage".
Will this work..?
I know it's not likely to happen like this, but a 737-800 with a full load of 189 pax (from Ryanair's site) all bringing their 10kg of hand luggage, that's 1.89 tonnes of hand baggage to be stowed in the cabin, where..? The lockers are will be stuffed, under the seats is sometimes practical, but I got to think this is just going to be mayhem for the SLF and the peanut chuckers (sorry.. peanut sellers on Ryan..)
I'm sure they are looking to save money on hold baggage stowing, but will this be at the cost of longer turn arounds as the crew try and stuff all the bags into any avaialble space and then on landing everyone tries to find their carry-ons.
