According to Ryanair website, checked baggage weight requirements are limited to 15kg. If my conversion is correct that equates to about 33lbs. I'm thinking that exceeding the limit would not be altogether that difficult. Does Ryanair strictly enforce this limit? Also, any excess over 15kg is charged at Stg4/06per kilo. Can anyone translate this excess charge for the metrically impaired? Thanks

4 GBP or 6 euros per kilo (2.2 lbs).

The exact use of symbols on their website is as follows:<BR><BR>&pound;Stg4/?6 per kilo <BR><BR>&pound;Stg, as suggested above refers to GBP, or pounds sterling as the abbreviation is meant to imply.<BR><BR>? is apparently a euro symbol. I am mystified how/why this symbol is working in some parts of the world, and not others (or at least I guess that's why no computers in America seem to be able to display it).<BR><BR>Maybe I have mis-interpreted - - could it be a function of NEWER computers now have something different in the character sets (something in the operating system that perhaps its display?) - - and has nothing to do with geography.<BR><BR>Will there never be a ptach for this for older computers. Does anyone have a clue about this symbol.<BR><BR>I realize that this is close to hijacking this thread. If anyone has an answer, feel free to start a new thread about this subject.<BR><BR>Best wishes,<BR><BR>Rex<BR>

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I have the euro symbol displayed on the E key, so I have to press Alt Gr. It does not work on this Fodors board, you will only see a question mark. <BR>My computer is a quite new Packard Bell with Microsoft XP.

Daneil - - am I to take it that you are in Norway? Are there ANY websites on which you see the euro symbol - - AS a symbol (as opposed to as an "image")? Could you look at the ryanair page cited above and tell us what you see?<BR><BR>http://www.ryanair.com/conditions.html<BR><BR>And if YOU can't see "it", with a new computer - - IN Europe - - then who can?<BR>

Yes, I am in Norway and I can see the euro symbol on ryanair´s website and eurostars (fares) and many others, including LP´s Thorn Tree boards. Is a c with two horisontal bars in the middle a good description?<BR><BR>I just did a google search for "The Euro currency symbol" and here are some sites that may be useful:<BR>www.microsoft.com/typography/faq/faq12.htm.<BR>www.microsoft.com/windows/euro.asp.<BR>www.formula.co.uk/euro.htm.<BR>http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1140.html.

Here's what I got from the first one I tried!<BR><BR>www.microsoft.com/windows/euro.asp.<BR><BR>================================= ==<BR><BR>Our Apologies...<BR> <BR>The page you are looking for has moved or no longer exists—or you might have entered an incorrect Web site address (URL).<BR><BR>===================================< BR><BR>I'll keep trying. It will be interesting to learn if there is something simple that Fodors can do on their servers. But that seems unlikely. I wonder why you can see the euro symbol on the ryanair website and I cannot. Just got new XP-based computer for our daughter yesterday. I'll have to try looking on her computer.<BR><BR>

Same thing here.<BR><BR>http://www.microsoft.com/typography/faq/faq12.htm.<BR><BR>================================ =====<BR><BR>Sorry, there is no Microsoft.com web page matching your request. <BR><BR>=====================================<BR>< BR>Who wants to try the other two!?<BR>

Strange. They work on my computer!

Accessing the euro symbol in Windows:<BR>"On standard US keyboards hold down either Alt key and type 0128 on the numeric keypad part of your keyboard."

Accessing the ? symbol for me is hold down the Alt Gr key and press 4.

the question mark should have been the euro symbol! Obviously it doesn't work on fodors.

Where are you from fiona? I don't think american keyboards have those.<BR><BR>

Tom<BR>I'm from Scotland.

Can´t you get www.microsoft.com/windows/euro.asp in America? All info and free downloads are there. If you do a www.google.com search for "Euro currency symbol", don´t we all get the same sites?<BR><BR>UK keyboard AltGr+4.<BR>US-International AltGr+5.<BR>US-standard Alt+0128.

Daniel,<BR><BR>This tip helped (partially?) crack the mystery. I did just what you suggested, and went to www.google.com with exactly this search you suggested - - and indeed the first site it retrieved was <BR><BR>http://www.microsoft.com/typography/faq/faq12.htm<BR><BR>just as you said.<BR><BR>BUT! Google offers one powerful capability you don't find elsewhere -- they have all kinds of pages CACHED -- so even though the page is no longer available (to us here in America?) - - you can still read it if you click on the cached version.<BR><BR>and I read there that Mircosoft basically has NEVER made support for the euro symbol on Windows 95 (and yes, this is what I use for most of my everyday online stuff).<BR><BR>So, I went to a Windows 98 computer - - and sure enough, the symbol on the ryanair page (which is TEXT - - NOT an image) displays just fine.<BR><BR>Conclusion? The software running THIS Fodors site is running on Windows 95 or some other similar (fairly out of date) platform. I don't know how many other computers in the US (or in the world) are still running Windows 95 - - millions - - maybe tens of millions. Conversion is slow, but little by little it is occurring.<BR><BR>Fodors needs to step forward (and I guess I do, TOO!)<BR><BR>I still think this would be good to start a separate thread on this subject, but I am still speculating a bit as to the underlying cause of this problem (i.e., the operating system on Fodors host servers).<BR><BR>

Here in the UK Alt Gr + 4 =Euro symbol (?)

Interesting tech talk -- but what about the first question: Does Ryanair strictly enforce the weight limit? Also, do they talk a total weight for a family and divide by the number of travelers?

I think they "screen" the weight of your bag with the "arm test" of the counter agent. If it feels like it might weigh over 15 kg, then they put it on the scales. So, I suspect that a 17 kg bag might not get a surcharge. I don't recall paying any surcharge on that trip but it was just my wife and myself, and we were traveling pretty light (though not light enough to get around the blasted FIVE kg rule of BA for the trans-atlantic trip - - had to check rollaboards - - though no surcharge to do that, of course).<BR><BR>But I wouldn't count on "getting by" with a 30 kg bag, nor even two 12 kg bags.<BR><BR>Baggage surcharges are an integral part of how they keep their fares low.<BR><BR>I have flown Ryanair twice before, and both flights were full of students, business people and all kinds of others of all ages. Often making a weekend trip to see family or just a quick getaway. Many of those fly with well under 15 kg.<BR><BR>They have NO incentive to see Americans trying to "get around" Ryanair's collection of baggage surcharges. Those surcharges help keep Ryanair fares low for the mostly European crowd that is making it the fastest growing (and shooting to be the most successful) airline anywhere.<BR>