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What can I take on a plane?
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Only if by "plane" you mean "time machine back to the 80's"
Okay, I was gilding the lily a tad when I said that RyanAir landed me nearer to Finland when I flew with them to what they laughingly referred to as Stockholm.
In actual fact, the airport they flew into was Skavsta, 66 miles from Stockholm, that’s like saying we’ll take you to London, but you’ll land in Portsmouth, Hants.
I appreciate that Heathrow, 16 miles, Gatwick, 41 miles, Luton, 34 miles, and Stansted, 38 miles are all termed London airports, as in “welcome aboard our flight to London blank”, but 66 miles is pushing the envelope a bit I think.
If you’re flying to New York, almost everyone knows that you’ll fly into JFK or Newark, both within 35-40 minutes of Manhattan, fly into Rome, and it’s Fiumicino, 25 miles, or Ciampino, 7.5 miles to the city centre, but 66 miles is taking the ****, big time.
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But it is pretty clear from the beginning though isn't it? The airport is named as Stockholm-Skavsta on Ryanair's website. I fly almost only with Ryanair and have very rarely had any problems with them. I generally have problems with the amount of idiots that are travelling and seem to be completly illiterate about most things in regards of the airport and flights.
I've met quite a few people that goes "oh how can you fly with Ryanair?" and quite often I will save a lot of money by traveling with them. I live very close to Stansted, so travel there costs hardly anything. Flying with most regular airlines would at least double the cost (if not triple it) plus I would have to travel to Heathrow or Gatwick. Sometimes just to travel to and from Heathrow or Gatwick can be as expensive as the flights with Ryanair.
And 66 miles is pretty much a close distance for us swedes anyway
I've met quite a few people that goes "oh how can you fly with Ryanair?" and quite often I will save a lot of money by traveling with them. I live very close to Stansted, so travel there costs hardly anything. Flying with most regular airlines would at least double the cost (if not triple it) plus I would have to travel to Heathrow or Gatwick. Sometimes just to travel to and from Heathrow or Gatwick can be as expensive as the flights with Ryanair.
And 66 miles is pretty much a close distance for us swedes anyway
I travel all the time with only a back pack.
Electricals in a clear plastic bag, I us a zip close freezer bag. (phone and tablet don't need to be in a bag, but place them in a tray also at customs)
make sure your socks have no holes incase your shoes set of the metal dector lol
I have
USB cable, Swiss plug phone charger, electric shaver, powerbanks.
At customs pull the bag out of your suitcase/backpack.
stick it in a tray so they can clearly see it.
I usually stick my belt, and anything in my pockets in the same tray.
Aerosol cans can go in hand luggage if its under 100ml, if its a new can spray a tiny bit out first so it doesnt go all michael bay over your luggage (plane is pressurised anyway so WTF?)
don't put your wallet in a tray, leave it zipped inside your coat, you can do the same with any keys or loose change as it saves time when gathering your belongings from the tray.
kinda weird you can't take tools on a plane, probably not allowed rope either, but could strangle someone with your belt or usb cable, handcuff someone with zipties.
whoever makes up these rules is a bit cuckoo
Indeed, I see all the time on forums "I'd never fly easy jet" etc
O'rly ? so you'd rather pay 5x more minimum for possibly a non direct flight? of course not these people are speaking utter twaddle.
Newcastle to Geneva
Geneva to Newcastle
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cheap as chips, 2 hour flight. taxi to my local airport and back is going to be £16 each way, almost as much as both flights cost.
6"4 and fine in the seats, Did try extra leg room seats one time which i think is like £10 more each way.
not really worth it as the normal seats are perfectly adequate for my long legs
probably basel airport, its in france just over the border from basel city in switzerland but it has a trainstation that goes to basel and swiss trains are awesome.
maybe it even has machines where you can scan your boarding card for a free ticket there??
I think geneva airport does to reach geneva main station unless its only for the bus and the distance is probably about the same
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I've heard that dead animals are OK, but only one carrion per person.
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Yes Basel Mulhouse Frieburg is in France but right on the border and there's regular buses going into basel which only take about 25mins.
Just to confuse things even more most people seem to speak German because the border to that country us very close too!
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I think the bigger question here is...you use Lynx?
I appreciate your well meant, and valid advice, but on one occasion, in Atlanta GA airport, after the security gauleiter had patrolled the area, barking, “Remove EVERYTHING from pockets, EVERYTHING!”, I was patted down, and when a plastic folder containing my Oyster card was discovered in my jeans rear pocket, I was loudly asked, “What part of EVERYTHING, did you NOT understand?”
I like the keys and loose change in jacket pockets idea, but don’t the metal keys and coins attract attention?”
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Is hair gel not flammable nowadays, then?
I've always been told to put my coat/jacket in a tray.
They don't care if things are in the pockets. they only care about the pockets that pass through the metal detector for humans.
oh and one thing I forgot any food is supposed to be in a plastic bag/tuppaware box. (obviously not if it's like a bar of chocolate, packet of crisps etc)
but if its a sandwhich or bigmac whatever then you're supposed to bag it.
if you have food goods that are likely to raise suspicion take them out of your bag/luggage and put them in a tray too
I've taken some weird things through customs, like all the ingredients to make my GF a birthdaycake because I don't know where to buy the different types of sugar that you can buy in england, I never see them in swiss stores like migros or coop.
also they don't have self raising flour in swissland and I couldn't be faffed trying to manually mix flour with bicarb or whatever it was.
also took bullion salts(think oxo cubes) from switzerland to England which was a big tub because in England I only ever see the tiny little individual squares and it seemed far cheaper to have a 1kg tub from switzerland
got through customs fine just a quick visual check of my bag after the scan.
at Newcastle airport they didn't even do a drug test of the 2kg of flour I had lol, just opened my case saw the M&S paper packaging it was in and waved me on :O
BTW whoever asked, you can take 1 lighter with you.
I always take a clipper lighter with me completely filled with gas.
Also don't buy your drinks from the first shop you see in the airport.
seems the closer the store is to the entrance you come from the more expensive it's likely to be.
I guess most people buy refreshments in the first shop they come to and they are obviously aware of this.
your going to spend a fair bit of time hanging around the departures area anyway so you might as well do a quick check of the prices.
okay you might only pay £1.50 instead of 2 or 3 but why feed the rip off shops?
But it is pretty clear from the beginning though isn't it? The airport is named as Stockholm-Skavsta on Ryanair's website. I fly almost only with Ryanair and have very rarely had any problems with them. I generally have problems with the amount of idiots that are travelling and seem to be completly illiterate about most things in regards of the airport and flights.
I've met quite a few people that goes "oh how can you fly with Ryanair?" and quite often I will save a lot of money by traveling with them. I live very close to Stansted, so travel there costs hardly anything. Flying with most regular airlines would at least double the cost (if not triple it) plus I would have to travel to Heathrow or Gatwick. Sometimes just to travel to and from Heathrow or Gatwick can be as expensive as the flights with Ryanair.
And 66 miles is pretty much a close distance for us swedes anyway
I'm still not buying it neviditelny, if I bought a flight to Buenos Aires, I'd expect to land on the right side
of the River Plate, not check to ensure that I wasn't going to land closer to Montevideo, Uruguay.
66 miles might be close for a Swede, but I only managed hej då, God dag, and tack så mycket.
it does seem from google to be the english name of the airport.
It's not ryanairs fault.
if you are travelling to a destination surely as a passenger you would already look in to how far the airport is from your final destination and the best or easiest method of getting there.
We’re going round in circles here, granted if I was going to a city that I’d never been to before, I’d check onward transportation and methods of same FROM the arrival airport, but whether the name of the airport was Blanksville Bonga Bonga in the native language, and Blanksville Yellow Duck in English, I still wouldn’t expect that I’d find Yellow Duck to be nearly 100 kilometres from the city I wanted to go to.
Quick update guys to help anyone else who was confused by Ryanair's theoretical instructions:
Basically it turns out that in practice the limitations of what you can put in the hold luggage are identical to the limitations on what you can put in the cabin bag, this is because RA make you carry the hold luggage to the plane yourself (unless you pay an additional £40) and so it has to be taken through the same scanners and through the secure part of the airport. So it's much cheaper to just buy deodorant, hair gel, sun cream, etc at your destination and then leave it there.
Also the priority bag thing isn't actually enforced by anyone, one of the guys I was travelling with just walked onto the plane with his hold luggage both ways and put it in the overhead storage lol.
Basically it turns out that in practice the limitations of what you can put in the hold luggage are identical to the limitations on what you can put in the cabin bag, this is because RA make you carry the hold luggage to the plane yourself (unless you pay an additional £40) and so it has to be taken through the same scanners and through the secure part of the airport. So it's much cheaper to just buy deodorant, hair gel, sun cream, etc at your destination and then leave it there.
Also the priority bag thing isn't actually enforced by anyone, one of the guys I was travelling with just walked onto the plane with his hold luggage both ways and put it in the overhead storage lol.