What do you put in your ski bag

you seem suprised ,cant you get different wines from africa ,chile ect .join virgin wines they have most and send it to your door .

Last year coming back from Italy via Milan, Ryan-air charged me 50 euro because I shared a bag with the wife and it weighed in 3 kg over the 15 kg allowance.
They told me if I wanted to buy another bag and transfer the luggage into it there would be no charge, we had nothing more in the bag and we were charged nothing on the outward journey at Stansted.
Are budget airlines cheaper, I'm not so sure.

tomski wrote:you seem suprised ,cant you get different wines from africa ,chile ect .join virgin wines they have most and send it to your door .

Noooooooo?????
Really?

And there was me thinking YOU had missed the point :roll:

Have you ever tried Austrian Zweigelt red wine, by the way? Its excellent.

Ian Wickham wrote:Last year coming back from Italy via Milan, Ryan-air charged me 50 euro because I shared a bag with the wife and it weighed in 3 kg over the 15 kg allowance.
They told me if I wanted to buy another bag and transfer the luggage into it there would be no charge, we had nothing more in the bag and we were charged nothing on the outward journey at Stansted.
Are budget airlines cheaper, I'm not so sure.

I am very suspicious of the weighing machines used by Ryanair. I recently travelled to Spain with them, with a largish electrical item which the manf. said weighed 11.7 kilos. It fitted into my hard Delsey case and I have real problems believing that in doing so the combined package became 17.7 kilos earning me a £22 excess baggage charge ex-uk. I paid up, as there was really no option there and then.

On the return trip, now minus the delivered electrical item, my case was full with cheap groceries :D I asked to weigh my case at the airport before checking in, and this was refused, I even asked at customer services. When I finally checked in, my case sat on the scales at 14.5 kilos (phew) and with no-one touching it, or even nearby, I saw the scales go up to 15 kilos whilst the check in staff wrote out the boarding card. I watched many others in the same queue being sent to pay excess baggage charges.

Tony_H wrote:

tomski wrote:you seem suprised ,cant you get different wines from africa ,chile ect .join virgin wines they have most and send it to your door .

Noooooooo?????
Really?

And there was me thinking YOU had missed the point :roll:

:roll:

I know. Poor Tom. )

bandit wrote:

Ian Wickham wrote:Last year coming back from Italy via Milan, Ryan-air charged me 50 euro because I shared a bag with the wife and it weighed in 3 kg over the 15 kg allowance.
They told me if I wanted to buy another bag and transfer the luggage into it there would be no charge, we had nothing more in the bag and we were charged nothing on the outward journey at Stansted.
Are budget airlines cheaper, I'm not so sure.

I am very suspicious of the weighing machines used by Ryanair. I recently travelled to Spain with them, with a largish electrical item which the manf. said weighed 11.7 kilos. It fitted into my hard Delsey case and I have real problems believing that in doing so the combined package became 17.7 kilos earning me a £22 excess baggage charge ex-uk. I paid up, as there was really no option there and then.

On the return trip, now minus the delivered electrical item, my case was full with cheap groceries :D I asked to weigh my case at the airport before checking in, and this was refused, I even asked at customer services. When I finally checked in, my case sat on the scales at 14.5 kilos (phew) and with no-one touching it, or even nearby, I saw the scales go up to 15 kilos whilst the check in staff wrote out the boarding card. I watched many others in the same queue being sent to pay excess baggage charges.

This is very interesting, Bandit. I can honestly say that the few times I have travelled with Ryanair, my case has ALWAYS been heavier when returning to the UK according to their weighing machine, despite the fact that I dont bring back more than I take, and also considering I often leave some bathroom stuff behind.
This happened notably at Girona airport a couple of times, once for me when we had to pay 28 euros extra, and another time for my daughter when her suitcase suddenly put on weight and she was left with a similar fee to pay.
I have seen many others in the queue have the same problem and all wondering what happened as they had also brought home the same or less than they travelled with.
I have also witnessed the scales miraculously going up once the bag is on them, as you have pointed out.
I have to say I dont use Ryanair any more, unless I really have to for a short trip somewhere, mainly because their prices are no longer (generally) any cheaper, but also because of their stupid policies for checking in etc. This only adds fuel to the theory that Ryanair are milking every penny out of their passengers, and somewhat on the sly too.

tony h sorry for giving the jmpression that i am a wine fanatic ,i prefere lager,its the wife that likes the grape juice and she only likes white,so i dont get ohhhh really jest :oops: .