The bonus for Ryanair workers who intercept passengers with oversized cabin bags will rise from €1.50 to €2.50 per bag, the airline’s boss said.
Michael O’Leary told the BBC the change would come in this November, and that he made no apology for it.
Mr O’Leary said the bonus was meant to put off the small minority who brought cabin bags which were bigger than the size limit, insisting the airline was “not trying to catch people out”.
He added that if people “don’t comply with the rules and try to get on with an outsize bag, we will catch you and I would look forward to rewarding and bonusing our staff that pick out those oversize bags”.
Ryanair passengers are allowed a free bag to take on board, but can be charged up to £75 they try to bring a larger bag than allowed onto a flight, depending on the route and travel date.
The airline currently allows a small carry-on bag – with a size capped at 40cm x 20cm x 25cm and weight of 10kg – with every ticket.
However, this is set to increase to 40cm x 30cm x 20cm from September after a change in EU rules.
Mr O’Leary said about 200,000 passengers per year have to pay extra to put carry-on luggage in the hold, and that he did not feel sorry for “chancers” trying bring “rucksacks” aboard.
“We’re the airline with the lowest air fares in Europe,” he said. “Those are our rules. Please comply with the rules, as 99.9% of our 200 million passengers do, and you won’t have any problem.”
He said if people “comply with the bag rules then everyone will board faster” and there will be “fewer flight delays”.
In addition to increasing the bonus per bag, Ryanair is scrapping an €80 cap on how much staff can earn each month for catching people with bags that are too large.
The Ryanair chief executive also said he wanted “ground handlers to catch people who are scamming the system”.
Sustainable fuel ‘nonsense’
Mr O’Leary, who has previously voiced scepticism about sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), said there was “not a hope in hell” of the UK’s SAF mandate of 10% being met by 2030.
He said Ryanair would not be increasing how much SAF it used because supply “is not there”, and described SAF as “nonsense”.
The mandate starts in 2025 at 2% of total UK jet fuel demand, increasing to 10% in 2030 and then to 22% in 2040.
Mr O’Leary said sustainability targets for aviation are “dying a death”, with the sector set to miss both 2030 targets for sustainable aviation fuel and a 2050 net zero mandate.
“Over the next 10 years, I believe oil prices will fall materially,” he added.
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Los Angeles County’s looming agreement with its biggest labor union is expected to cost a little more than $2 billion over three years — the latest hit to a budget besieged by financial woes.
The cost estimate, provided to The Times on Monday by the county chief executive office, will necessitate more belt-tightening for a government that’s running out of notches.
The deadly January wildfires are expected to cost the county $2 billion. The Trump administration has threatened cuts that would ravage the county’s public health budget. The L.A. County supervisors agreed this year to a historic $4 billion sex abuse settlement — the largest of its kind in U.S. history — and required most departments to make 3% cuts to help pay for it.
The cuts aren’t done, Chief Executive Fesia Davenport warned the supervisors Monday as she walked them through the latest version of the county’s sprawling $49-billion budget.
To pay for salary bumps and bonuses for county workers in the tentative labor agreement, the updated budget slashes $50.5 million, cutting funding for parks, swimming pools and violence prevention, among other programs. Soon, each department will need to make an additional 5.5% cut, said Davenport, whose office drafts the budget and leads labor negotiations.
“We are taking this extraordinary step because we simply have no alternative,” she said.
The supervisors unanimously approved the recommended budget Monday, which included an initial round of cuts to pay for some of the expected labor costs and the multibillion-dollar sex abuse settlement.
Despite their unanimous vote, the supervisors had little nice to say Monday about the plan.
“While the budget may look like it’s healthy, it’s a sick patient,” said Supervisor Hilda Solis.
As a result of the cuts, two probation offices are expected to shutter. County swimming pools will shut down earlier. Regional parks will now close two days a week.
“Like every other Angeleno, I’m mad too,” said Supervisor Holly Mitchell, who noted a petition she had seen on Nextdoor that morning protesting the two-day-a-week closure of Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area in her district.
The county announced last week that it had reached a tentative agreement with SEIU 721, which represents 55,000 county workers. The agreement, which still needs to be ratified by the union membership and the supervisors, includes a $5,000 bonus in the first year, followed by a 2% cost of living adjustment and $2,000 bonus in the second year and a 5% salary increase the third year.
The county is in negotiations with 16 smaller unions. The $2.1-billion price tag assumes that those unions will adopt similar salary increases and bonuses as SEIU 721.
To pay for the new labor costs, the chief executive office said the county will dip into its general fund for $778 million. The remaining $1.2 billion or so will come from federal and state funds meant for staffing costs.
David Green, the head of SEIU 721, said his members were “thrilled” with the tentative contract — the fruit of months of negotiations and a two-day strike this spring.
Last year, the city of Los Angeles agreed to contracts covering 33,000 union workers, many of whom would receive a pay increase of 24% over the next five years. The contracts, which the city estimated would add $3.5 billion in costs over five years, were a contributing factor in a massive budget shortfall that the City Council closed with layoffs and other spending cuts.
Green, who negotiated with both the city and county, said comparing the two was like “apples and oranges.”
“The economic climate has gotten worse in a lot of ways,” he said. “I think you felt a little bit of that in L.A. county bargaining.”
County supervisors appeared supportive of the agreement in Monday’s meeting, though quick to pan the overall financial picture.
“This is a budget I don’t like — I don’t think anyone does,” said Hahn.
But it could be worse, she noted.
“I know this is a budget … that won’t put us in the hole,” she said.
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