Passenger charged outrageous charge for taking water bottle on flight

These charges are flying.

A traveler claims she was charged about $63 to convey her water bottle on board her flight.

Ruby Flanagan was hit with the additional flee when taking a Ryanair flight out of Dublin, she mentioned sharing her story with The Mirror.

Though she claimed the finances airline “has a popularity for ridiculous further prices,” she was shocked to turn out to be a “sufferer” due to her massive water bottle.

Flanagan mentioned she booked herself a “non-priority” ticket which might solely permit her a “small” bag onto the flight and opted to journey with a backpack — one she has used to journey many occasions — for the quick journey.

Her roundtrip ticket solely value her about $45 — at first.

She arrived at her gate at Stansted Airport together with her bag tightly packed and her 750 ml steel water bottle tied to the strap and settled into her seat with no issues.

Nevertheless, three days later that was not the case.

Flanagan mentioned that when she tried to board her Ryanair flight out of Dublin she was instructed that her water bottle needed to be zipped into her bag and accepted by the workers who wanted to see it match into the steel field constructed to signify the underseat cupboard space she would have.

“I used to be one in every of a handful of different passengers who had been pulled apart by the Ryanair crew and had been desperately making an attempt to repack,” she recounted.

“After shifting a number of bits round and shoving the bottle in, my bag now had an enormous growth-like lump on the highest right-hand nook because the zip did its greatest to remain closed.”

Sadly, the overstuffed backpack was not accepted by the Ryanair workers this time and Flanagan was instructed she must pay to get her bag on the flight.

“Thrown by the assertion, I requested them why I couldn’t take the bottle in my hand as I did on my outgoing flight,” she mentioned.

“In response, I used to be instructed that the water bottle wanted to suit into the bag; in any other case, it might be classed as a ‘second bag’, which was not allowed with my ticket.”

So as to add to her frustration and confusion, Flanagan claimed she “watched different backpack passengers holding laptops, Burger King luggage and journey pillows move by with out a hitch.”

But, Flanagan and others had been being charged further regardless of insisting that that they had flown a technique with the identical stuff and been completely nice.

“Every dialogue consisted of numerous hand flailing, numerous eye-rolling, the phrase ‘dimensions’ repeated again and again, and numerous pointing — particularly to the fella with the debit card holder on the different finish of the gate who sheepishly waved us over,” she mentioned.

The airline “formally closed the gate” because the arguments continued which brought about Flanagan to enter a “state of panic” having by no means missed a flight earlier than.

She was instructed,  “You’ll should pay for it both method … out, it’s a second bag and in, the baggage too massive, so that you’ll must pay.”

Because the aircraft was set to depart in a couple of minutes, Flanagan lastly shuffled over to the staffer with the cardboard reader defeated. She paid about $63 — greater than she paid for her round-trip ticket — to convey her water bottle on board.

She later realized it might have been cheaper to throw the water bottle away and buy a brand new one however famous “that may’ve been ridiculously un-environmental — and would’ve taken away from the satisfaction of being the over one-millionth plastic bottle of water saved from landfill by refilling.”

Flanagan filed a criticism with Ryanair which was shortly rejected.

Ryanair defended the cost to The Mirror: “This passenger booked a Fundamental Fare ticket for this flight from Dublin to Stansted (4 Feb), which allowed them to hold a small private bag onboard.”

“This passenger tried to board with an extra carry-on, and as it might not match inside their permitted bag, she was appropriately required to pay a normal gate baggage charge (€60). As soon as fee was made, this passenger traveled on this flight from Dublin to Stansted (4 Feb).”

Further baggage might be bought for cheaper whereas reserving a ticket.

Flanagan isn’t the primary passenger to be caught with further charges for what they consider to be a “ridiculous” scenario.

A Ryanair passenger was incensed after getting compelled to fork over a baggage charge as a result of a wheel was poking out of the scale checker.

And one other girl not too long ago claimed that she was compelled to pay cancellation for her sister’s Ryanair flight after her sibling was tragically killed earlier than the journey.