In isolation yes, but it would be a lot easier, cheaper and convenient to not be dependent on one
So Mr and Mrs Joe Blogs and their 2 six year old boys go for a weeks sun in Gran Canaria . They fly with Ryanair from Manchester but have bought the cheapest option that includes no luggage. The 2 boys will only need a couple of t shirts and shorts for the weeks holiday, they ware them all in layers on the flight out. Mr and Mrs Blogs can put a couple of layers on when they fly out, when they arrive in Gran Canaria they pop into Primark and buy any extra they will need for the week. They can then pop into the supermarket and buy toiletries and the like. They have saved a fortune on paying for luggage.
And yet none of the existing open access operators have implemented such a system, which probably tells us something.
There are plenty of web sites out there to help you with your packing when travelling with Ryanair.
And what about people on UK shopping trips. When they leave home, they don't know how much they might buy. After the shopping, they arrive at the station 5 minutes before departure time, carrying 2 or 3 bags of shopping. How do you cater for such situations ? Insufficient time to mess about trying to get on the internet and "register" your extra luggage.
As a taxpayer l would violently object to any funding going to a system based on your utter nightmare proposals. Ryanair makes a profit so your new rail companies can too or go bust. Oh, do you propose that those new rail companies have the flexibility to withdraw from routes with virtually zero notice given as Ryanair can, too?
Spot on. Free market extremism and sod the consumer.
Yeah not buying it. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve seen people chuck on an extra jumper to save weight on the case etc, but a family holiday does not behave like this in the majority of cases. For a week, I highly doubt anyone will wear seven pairs of pants in one go. Do they just throw them away? Or come home wearing the dirty ones again?
Seriously?!
As someone else says above, now there is no expectation of never having to do this. If I'm paying the same price (or more) again for these services over tge base ticket price, I expect to get them regardless of any issue en route or a set swap from 8 car to 4 car. If I've paid, I expect to do the whole journey without having to think about my luggage or having to stand up. A system of refunding me afterwards is not good enough - I've specifically and deliberately paid for my 4 large bags to be transported in a luggage rack while I sit in my specifically chosen seat.
And what happens if not enough people volunteer for this? In Ryanair world, it would be illegal for them to transport someone standing up so if they don't get enough volunteers they need to choose people to do it anyway. Don't know what system they use to choose those people (Last to check in? Last to arrive at the gate? Those who paid the least for their ticket?). How would the railway decide which passengers are least important? Or would they just make more people stand?
So you're now saying that not only does every station now need a gatrline, and not only that every gateline needs a member if staff, but EVERY GATE needs a member of staff? So at London Bridge station, all of the gates would have a member of staff confirming that everyone is coming through with the correct nunber of bags? Any idea how that would work at peak times? At somewhere like Manchester Piccsdilly or London Liverpool Street, the queues would stretch for miles!
Because to a greater or lesser extent they are orcat raids ie they accept walk up fares. Rail charter services that did not would have more flexibility and I think some do have differential prices for different seating arrangements.
I wasn't aware that I can take animals on ryanair
The fallback position if people didn't volunteer would be the status quo. People would stand, and get paid £££ for delay repay, when there are people with a seat who would have been happy to be delayed for £. Its not a flight. Its a train. The railway can "decide" in the way that it decides which passengers get a cheap advance fare.
And if you're wearing a coat or jacket that you want to take off during the journey, it will cost you £5 to hold it on your lap, £10 to hang it on the coat hook alongside your seat or put it on the overhead rack, or £20 (or even the price of another ticket) to put it on an unoccupied seat alongside or opposite you. Keeping it on or not having one with you (or hiding it in your bag if it's small and light enough to do so without exceeding the luggage weight limit) will cost you nothing.
Better, but neglects the important point I made earlier. Platforms need to have barriers to separate from normal services. That does somewhat limit the stations that can be used for such a service.
I fly regularly through Manchester T3 and I can categorically tell you for a fact that this is completely untrue.
That's already the reality in the airline industry.
Not in my experience
If the likes of Easyjet and Ryanair did not exist today, how much do you think a ticket with the likes of Loganair, British Airways and Iberia would cost today? We would go back to the days when most people could not afford the price of tickets. Air travel would return to be a luxury for those who could afford it. Ryanair, Easyjet and others have totally transformed air travel so most people can now afford to travel overseas.
About what they cost now.
Has it? "Innovation" within the air industry led to routine overbooking and the routine cancellation of flights at short notice. Things were so bad the EU had to legislate with directive EU261 to force the airlines to behave themselves.
