A news item on RTE Irish television last night said that Ryanair has said that it cannot rule out charging for bringing carry on luggage on board its aircraft, although a firm decision had not been made, the RTE news felt it significant enough to report on.
I'm nearly sure that I read somewhere in the past few weeks that some other airline (can't remember which) has already introduced this charge and thought, bad move. In FR's case not so much that people will abandon FR as such for another airline but the large numbers of their passengers who presently fly a lot will fly less often due to the extra cost. The original move to charge only for hold luggage left people with choice but charging for cabin baggage means that only day-trippers don't lose out. Or will even a laptop qualify as carry-on luggage? Let's hope that this is another case of pay-to-pee publicity as I'm confident that the introduction of such a charge would be a step too far.