I recently flew back with my bike using Ryanair from Spain. I had searched for the flight through skyscanner or similar and found the Ryanair flight I wanted. The site gave me various options for buying the ticket and some of these were cheaper than buying direct from Ryanair. I chose one of these but when it came to choosing my baggage options it didn't give me the bike option. I therefore had to revert to booking direct with the airline via skyscanner which wasn't the cheapest option.
I am now looking at some other possible trips and want to know if any of you have managed what I couldn't do ie secure the cheapest option via an intermediary as it can make quite a big price difference esp. on a long haul flight. Is there a suitable work-around that works? Maybe having to ring/contact the intermediary directly which seems a bit of a faff and not sure if they would be able to do it if it's not an option on their website when you try and book it.
When I get some time I will endeavour to do a write up here on my excellent Spanish off road adventure over 4 weeks
I flew with a very large bike box measuring a massive 190x21x118.5....all thanks to the fact that Ryanair don't specify a max size of bike box
This did lead to an interesting time at the airport as it wouldn't go through any of the normal scanners but thanks to a clever security chap, we did eventually get it through their biggest scanning machine with a bit of improvisation. I now plan to get a smaller but more standard size box that is required by most airlines and plan to practice to see how on earth you get an XL MTB in such a box. No doubt a lot harder than a road bike!Andy
