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A Ryanair passenger flying from Palma de Mallorca Airport (PMI) came up with a rather genius way to get around paying for a checked bag. He snapped the wheels off of his carry-on bag so that it would be compliant with the airline’s strict size restrictions.
He broke the wheels off his suitcase to avoid having to check it in with Ryanair, saving €70. How much did that suitcase cost him? pic.twitter.com/3jN7NeBr2c
— Fly Cheaply (@FlyCheaply) May 20, 2024
The passenger managed to avoid paying the ~$76 fee for a checked bag, but he was left with a suitcase without wheels. Staff look on and are stunned when it actually works. This is hardly unique to this one instance and passengers try daily to get around the carry-on limits imposed by low-cost carriers.
Last month, I wrote about a woman at Chicago O’Hare International Airport (ORD) that emptied and abandoned her suitcase instead of paying Spirit Airlines a fee to carry the bag on or check it.
WCGW if you try to cheat with the baggage size
byu/dead_man_alive inWhatcouldgowrong
The video above shows a male passenger stuffing his bag into the sizer. Baggage sizing is confusing and even if you buy a bag that is expected to fit in an airline’s baggage sizer, it might not. Some manufacturers do not account for the wheels and thus the bag becomes outside of policy. Many US carriers (American, Delta, and United) do not have the baggage sizers front and center like they used to, but the low-cost carriers like Spirit and Frontier are still making lots on nabbing passengers out of policy at the gates.
Anthony’s Take: This passenger found a genius way to avoid paying the fees, but I hope his bag was worth less than $76 as he’s made it virtually unusable for future trips.
(Featured Image Credit: @FlyCheaply via X.)
(H/T: View from the Wing.)
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