we've a 0655hrs flight out of Edinburgh in June.
The website at Ryanair next let's me find what I want.
Anyone got a link to done information.
Thanks in advance. There's 9 bikes on the trip, so I'm trying to keep the hassle minimised.
There be rules, lots of rules, print them, read them and eat them before they catch you!
No other option than checkin for bikes though and they won't open before they open as they will have to pay staff more and baggage handling for more work
I’m guessing you’ve not flown Ryanair before....
Have you booked the flight yet?
Plenty of good options, Easyjet surprisingly erm, easy for bikes, Emirates and especially Virgin also good but guess they do different destinations to your Ryanair flight?
KLM are a pain in the proverbial.
If you've already booked then I guess you have to do what Ryanair say.
Amazingly, Ryanair do have day-before bag drop. It seems airport dependent though, and it looks like they may only do it from Dublin:
https://travelupdate.boardingarea.com/night-bag-check/
You'll be lucky if they let you take all 9 bikes/all 9 bikes get there on your flight let alone check then in the night before.
Besides which... You're planning to trust airport baggage to safely keep 9 potentially expensive bikes overnight??!!! Airports work stil when there's s continuous flow of people and bags... Changing that flow is asking for trouble!!
Given it's Ryanair, as cp says, I'd be clarifying with them that they will accept 9 bikes on one flight. Even though they've taken the booking and money for bikes, there's no guarantee that they will be on the same flight. Also, I'd be stood there first in the queue when check in opens that morning.
No way I would trust ryanair with 1 bike let alone 9!
You can check-in 60 days before the flight but the check-in desk for weighing the luggage only opens two hours before the flight.
With your luggage I’d be early in the queue, I find their staff helpful.
Post edit: the 60 day check-in is online only.
I'd be stood at the check in at 4:30 in the morning, with all documents, passports and baggage neatly lined up on trolleys ready to go.
Anyone not there on time gets left behind.
so you have 9 bikes in your party .... better hope theres not another party of 9 or itll take them till oh.....september to get them all on the next flights.
It may not matter who gets their first tbh, in fact there's every chance the first bikes loaded onto the baggage cart may be the last on. Many airlines sell most of their hold space to freight companies, up to 80% in some cases, which offsets flight costs for us, this is generally why bikes get left to the next flight - Easyjet flight rom Edinburgh to Geneva is famous for it, BA have really mucked some mates of mine about too when they have been doing l'etape du tour too, it's far from a budget only airline issue.
You have no chance contacting ryanair and getting any kind of reasoned response, it's in the lap of the gods, though I believe they get most things right, you only ever hear of the problem flights...
What cp says above - you want them taking your bike bag and putting it straight on the flight - you do not want them taking it, putting it somewhere and then hoping that the folks on the next shift remembr to find it and put it on the flight. Anything that's not normal process is a risk.
Yep, absolutely agree. Every chance there will be no one on the desk anyway, until check in opens.