my family will be flying in 2 weeks from London to Glasgow and then on to Rome on Ryanair. Great prices, great times, but while reconfirming everything I find this paragraph "Checked baggage allowance is 15kg per person (no infant allowance). The maximum weight per bag is 32 kilos." I am metricly challenged, but I thought kilo and kilogram were the same, which leads me to believe that the 15 and 32 were switched in the sentences and I should interpret it to read that we can have 2 checked bags apiece, each 33 pounds or less and the total of the 2 bags should be under 70 pounds. I have faxed ryanair, but can't call them, but I need to know soon. Has anyone flown them lately and can they tell me if my interpretation is correct or should we cut it down to one 33 pound bag each. Help!

I haven't read the original statement from Ryanair, but if your quote is correct, that means if you have 2 people traveling together, you can have ONE 30kg bag and no surcharge. If you have 3 people traveling together, than you can have ONE 32kg bag, plus 13kg of extra baggage allowance.

Thanks for your reply. I did quote them accurately, but my allergy medicine befuddled mind was not thinking deeply enough. I think that they mean each person gets 15 kilos free and you can go over that if you want to pay, but the most weight per bag is 32 kilos. Thanks for helping me to think. So I was correct in freaking out and forcing my mother to jettison her fancy bag that weighs 20 lbs unpacked! We have washer & dryer in the apartment we have in London and a washer in Rome, so we will just have to enjoy travelling light!

Health and Safety laws in the UK mean that baggage handlers are not allowed to handle any item of baggage that weighs more than 32kg. Therefore, if you arrived with a 32kg bag, Ryanair will happily accept it and happily charge you the exorbitant excess baggage rates.

Anything that weighs above 32kg will have to stay at home as Ryanair do not transport cargo.

Remember: You are flying Ryanair!! Do not count on them allowing members of your group to pool their baggage allowances.

Correct. The check-in agent may pool the bags just to save time, but you can't count on it. In our case he did put the two bags on the scale at once. Neither was anywhere close to being over, though.

I had the same experience others have had with Ryanair-Stansted is more strict than other airports. A shouting match was going on at the next check-in desk over a lady going over allowance "It is stated on our website...". However, on the way back we were over (and ready to pay the fees), but the luggage was all weighed together, and even though over weight, we were not asked to pay.

Ok, I am back and reporting. Flying from Stansted to Glasgow, they put all 5 bags on the scale, we were over, they never even blinked or said a word, just tagged them and pushed them through. Flying from Glasgow to Rome, we were handed a massive itinerary change of having to fly into an airport 124 miles away and pay 18 euros for the bus ride from Pescara to Roma. To add insult to injury, they weighed our bags and since my sister had brought everything she owned (even after I told her not to), we were about 20 kg over, so my sister started pulling things out of her bag and the girl somewhat snottily let her do it. We ended up about 2 kg over, because my sister got all nasty and claimed hers was not the overweight (another story altogether-one for the sibling rivalry board). We figured that they checked all the bags on the flight mostly because many people had abadoned the flight after the massive itin change and they were losing money so trying to make it up somewhere. The funny thing is, they never ever checked carryon weights, where did that girl think my sister was going to put all of the stuff that she took out of her checkin, but in her carry on?
All in all, would fly Ryanair again and keep the baggage down (and leave my sister in the US). The 69 pence fare from London to Glasgow and the 19 pound fare from Glasgow to Rome far outweighed the inconvenience.

Familyfly, I've never heard of that particular Ryanair trick - putting you on a flight to somewhere else! I'm glad it worked out okay for you anyway.