Court brands Ryanair bag charge ‘excessive’

The passenger, who was travelling from Madrid to Brussels, was made to pay a €20 (£17) fine to bring her 10kg luggage onboard, with a judge in Spain’s commerical court later ruling the case could “easily have fitted in the cabin”, BBC News reports.

Ryanair allows only small bags as hand luggage if they can be stowed beneath the seat in front and charges customers an additional fee for carrying anything more than one personal item onboard.

Larger bags can also require a luggage fee.

In its ruling, the court said the woman should be refunded with interest, deeming the policy to be null and void and told Ryanair “to remove it” from its terms and conditions, pointing to a Spanish regulation that allows passengers to take hand luggage onboard at no additional cost.