Irish budget airline Ryanair has announced that Trunkis and similar bags designed for kids travelling on planes will now be allowed on its flights at no extra costs
Ryanair customers can now take extra luggage with them on flights if they bring a particular bag.
The budget airline has announced that customers can take a Trunki for their ‘free’ small bag on flights, even though it exceeds the regulation size by 50 per cent. A Trunki is a ride-on suitcase for kids. At 46 x 21 x 31cm, it was designed to fit in the overhead locker, and as something children can wear as a backpack when they’re not riding on it.
However, the size of the bag was causing issues. Posters on Mumsnet reported not being able to take it as free hand luggage when travelling with the budget airline. One Mumsnet user explained how she assumed there would be no issues taking a Trunki on a Ryanair flight, only to find out that wasn’t the case.
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She wrote: “We assumed we could in 2019. We couldn’t and had to pay on the way out. On the way back we put them in our pushchair bag for free to avoid paying the extra cost.”
Ryanair has now updated its Travelling with Children page to confirm that Trunkis are allowed at no extra cost. “Yes, children (2-11 years) are permitted to carry one Trunki case, which may exceed these dimension limits of the small bag (40 x 20 x 25cm). As well as Trunki cases, other brands with similar dimensions are also accepted on board,” it reads.
If you are looking for a different brand of rolly-suitcase then Bounce has some tips. The luggage storage company advises: “If you are traveling with children, there are a number of different luggage cases on the market designed to double up as seating for a young child. These include cases from MiaMily and Trunki.
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“Your youngster can sit on the case and roll alongside you, saving you the effort of carrying them in your arms alongside managing all your luggage. These types of cases are also small and lightweight, which makes them eligible as a carry-on for most airlines.”
If you are travelling abroad this summer, it is well worth knowing the rules, particularly if you are doing so with Ryanair. The budget airline has a long history of charging customers who get the rules slightly wrong. The Mirror recently wrote about various tricks employed by passengers in a bid to get around the strict Ryanair bag rules, including using packing cubes.
“When put to the test by the experts, they discovered that using vacuum packaging and cubes actually resulted in fitting less than if they simply folded their clothes into the bags,” we wrote.
“In a similar vein, folding proved marginally better at accommodating more clothes compared to rolling them. Our results show you can forget the hype around vacuum packing and compression cubes. Even rolling our clothes didn’t give us an advantage.”