Anyone who has ever taken a flight on a budget airline will know that you can get severely stung by the baggage charges.
So why not do what web writer Vincent Graff did on a flight from France to the UK and wear your luggage.
Graff told one surprised female security officer at Dordogne in France who was puzzled by Graff’s lack of luggage, (he wasn’t even carrying any hand luggage) that he had a laptop with him.
He explained that he’d been caught out once too often by Ryanair’s “sneaky baggage charges” and decided to beat them at their own game by wearing all his luggage, including his laptop.
In front of her eyes he takes off his jacket, turns it over, unfastens a zip and there inside amongst his underwear is his laptop computer.
Ryanair will only let you carry one bag of hand luggage with a maximum weight of 10 kg, if you exceed this you will be charged hefty fees at the airport.
You can check a bag into the hold for a fee of around £30 with a maximum weight of 20 kg; however, the extra luggage charges can seriously hike up the cost of your flight.
Graff says there are all sorts of rules surrounding baggage but none regarding the kind of clothes you can wear. His “baggage” weighed around 12 kg but because he was ‘wearing’ it, there were no fees at all.
His jacket had a total of 17 pockets which he packed full with his laptop and everything else he would need on his trip, including a canvas bag that he could empty his belongings into once he had got off the flight.
No one batted an eyelid when he was going through the security checks either.
“Once I’d removed my computer and dumped my belongings in a tray, neither the X-ray machine nor the official behind it cared whether the canvas holding my possessions was bag-shaped or jacket-shaped” said Graff.
“The only limit on what I can take with me – without charge! – is the strength of my jacket fabric and the load my shoulders can take” he said.
Ok so it was 34C and he was sweating buckets but still, it’s a small price to pay for travelling luggage free and without having to wait for the hold baggage to unload.
“With my ingenious jacket I think I’ve finally beaten the likes of Ryanair at their own game” concluded Graff in his article in Mail Online.
