Originally Posted by
Teaboy24
The point I was making but probably not very clearly, was that instead of pre-paying for a piece of hold baggage and joining a long queue at bag drop at the airport, some passengers are taking it plus their cabin bag to the gate and giving it to the gate agent to go in the hold when a call is made to relieve anybody of their bags.
On the several times I have been through STN recently I have never seen any fees collected at the gate. They just take any bags and put a tag on it.
Hence my reference to a loophole that seems to exists.
OK. I assume we're talking principally about Ryanair here, but regardless of the airline it seems to be not so much a loophole as a simple failure by the gate staff (who typically will be handling agents rather than airline staff) to implement the airline's existing conditions of carriage.
I wonder what passengers who try that tactic do on the occasions when they don't get asked to give up their bag - clearly when they get on board it's not going to fit in the overhead ?