seb47 Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 We've checked the Ryanair and BAA websites and it seems we are able to take this item in hand luggage. Does anyone have any contrary experiences?Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickles Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 We have had a satellite receiver in our carry-on luggage recently (2 months ago) on Ryanair with no problems.Pickles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOther Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 Can't imagine why it would be a problem, being mains powered it's even less of a potential threat than a laptop, but then you can never account for jobsworths can you [blink]If you did get pulled insist on talking to the top man and get him to show you where in the regulations it's prohibited, he won't be able to because it won't be, outwith the liquid and blade restrictions they make the rest up as they go [:'(] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheldonrobbo Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 why not just check with the carrier before you go....after all you don't want to have to leave it at the airport do you?? sheldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seb47 Posted December 5, 2008 Author Share Posted December 5, 2008 Thank you for the replies. I will be "Check'n Go" - ing with Ryanair so any problem is likely ro arise at Security and as ErnieY says I can always ask to speak to the head person and ask where in the regulations it states I cannot carry such a box. Worst case scenario I will have to check the hand luggage in to the hold (and pay of course) having packed it in as much bubble wrap as I can get my hands on. sheldonrobbo - Not sure about your experience in trying to contact Ryaniar - mine don't lead me to be too optimistic in obtaining an early response!Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre ZFP Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 If you can't get through to RA (which I can fully understand) try contacting BAA. After all, it's they who run the airport and therefore the security gates, they should be able to give you an answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suandpete Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 We brought one through Stansted on a Ryanair flight in our hand baggage on Monday last with no problems at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hagar Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 [quote user="seb47"].......I can always ask to speak to the head person and ask where in the regulations it states I cannot carry such a box. ....[/quote]Hopefully you should not have problems.If you do I wish you luck with "speaking to the head person". Last month coming back through East Midlands the staff on the belt simply refused to let us speak to any supervisor.They were claiming that my wife's cosmetics had to be enclosed in a "vacuum sealed " plastic bag - not the resealable plastic bag that we just happened to have bought at another airport.Ernie's got it right "they just make it up....."rgdshagar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOther Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 Along those lines I have witnessed people who have dutifully placed their items into the requisite clear resealable plastic bag forced to remove them simply in order to put them in the one provided by an airport worker. I challenge anybody to find me a rule which says what size the bl00dy bag has to be [:'(] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 [quote user="ErnieY"]I challenge anybody to find me a rule which says what size the bl00dy bag has to be [:'(] [/quote]Challenge accepted [:)]Not size, but volume. Maximum capacity 1 litre (which some airports say is about 20 x 18 cm, and other 20 x 20). I suppose that, short of pouring a litre of liquid into the bag to check, they sometimes prefer to use their own bags of known volume. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hagar Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 Problem we had was not the size or capacity of the bag (it was after all bought in Toulouse airport precisely for this purpose and had already been through more than a dozen checks in at least 4 different airports).No - their argument was that it was not "vacuum sealed".By the time I got involved in the "discussion" they already had a young spanish girl in front of my wife in tears. I walked over and said "excuse me can I ask you something" - Answer "no!". me - "I beg your pardon !" I asked to see a supervisor - they simply refused. I tried to explain that "vacuum sealed" bags are not required and in any case would be totally impractical. They just stonewalled us all the way.Irony was I had an identical bag inside my carry-on that I hadn't removed - they didn't even notice it.- Ah the joys of air travel in the 21st Century !!rgdshagar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOther Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 [quote user="Cat"]Challenge accepted [:)][/quote]Touche Cat although I see now that it was not as clear (ha) as it could have been that my use of the description 'requisite' was intended to mean that it was already nominally of the right size (and had likely passed through several airports previously without question) and the change was demanded apparently for no better reason than that 'somebody' had decided to make it thus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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