{"id":50983,"date":"2026-11-12T04:35:33","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/ryanairs-new-60-minute-luggage-rule-now-is-now-in-effect\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T04:35:33","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:35:33","slug":"ryanairs-new-60-minute-luggage-rule-now-is-now-in-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/ryanairs-new-60-minute-luggage-rule-now-is-now-in-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryanair&#8217;s new 60-minute luggage rule now is now in effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Budget airline <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/ryanair\">Ryanair<\/a> has urged passengers not to forget a change affecting everyone flying with checked-in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/extras\/indybest\/travel-outdoors\/luggage\">luggage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The low-cost <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/airline\">airline<\/a> now closes its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/airport\">airport<\/a> bag drop services 60 minutes before scheduled departure, instead of the previous 40-minute window. <\/p>\n<p>Ryanair originally announced the shake-up in April to make sure the estimated 20 per cent of its passengers that check in a bag have \u201cmore time\u201d to clear airport security and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/travel\/news-and-advice\/uk-passport-facial-recognition-airport-gates-b3061378.html\">passport control <\/a>queues before boarding begins &#8211; but it didn\u2019t come into effect until Tuesday 10 November.<\/p>\n<p>Ryanair\u2019s new 60-minute luggage rule<\/p>\n<p>The no-frills airline, notorious for its strict luggage allowances, says the move will help reduce the \u201csmall number of passengers\u201d who end up missing their flights due to delays at airport security or passport control. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Ryanair announced the shake-up back in April (Reuters)<\/p>\n<p>The remaining 80 per cent of passengers who make the most of Ryanair\u2019s cheap flights \u2013 and don\u2019t want to spend money on checked-in luggage \u2013 will be unaffected by the 20-minute change. <\/p>\n<p>These travellers will still have to check in online before travelling to the airport,<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/travel\/news-and-advice\/ryanair-flights-check-in-bag-luggage-time-b3083198.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Budget airline Ryanair has urged passengers not to forget a change affecting everyone flying with checked-in luggage. The low-cost airline now closes its airport bag drop services 60 minutes before scheduled departure, instead of the previous 40-minute window. Ryanair originally announced the shake-up in April to make sure the estimated 20 per cent of its<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":50984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[36,70,42],"class_list":["post-50983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-travel","tag-mixtv","tag-news-amp-advice","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}