This is NOT a stealth attack on Ryanair but I am using them as an example.
If an airline like Ryanair does all it can to discourage hold luggage their planes will weigh less at take off. So less fuel burned. Saving. And they will use less fuel carrying their fuel around. Saving. Bigger profits. No savings passed on to SLF of course.
No problem with that provided you accept their prices are not cheap when all the sneaky bits are added on.
Question. Do Ryan air use the space in the hold for freight instead?
More profit. fine. But attention is currently on security and I have read that security checking of freight is very slack--they are concentrating on old lady's shoes and my extremely dangerous belt instead. The Yeman bombs seem to have been found after a tip-off.
If freight
is a weak spot I am not reassured to read that around 15 percent of world air freight goes in passenger planes.
I would like to read the views of anyone who would care to put me right (politely please)
