{"id":572,"date":"2011-02-07T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/students-revolt-over-bag-fee-on-ryanair-flight\/"},"modified":"2011-02-07T12:25:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T12:25:00","slug":"students-revolt-over-bag-fee-on-ryanair-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/students-revolt-over-bag-fee-on-ryanair-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Students Revolt Over Bag Fee on Ryanair Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/miles-away\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2011\/2\/Ryanair_villanubla.JPG\" alt=\"All\n168 passengers were briefly removed from the flight (Image: Wikimedia)\" title=\"All 168 passengers were briefly removed from the flight \n(Image: Wikimedia)\" width=\"450\" height=\"340\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<strong>All 168 passengers were briefly removed from the flight <\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nSpanish police removed 100 students from a Ryanair flight in the Canary Islands this weekend after they staged a mutiny over a bag fee imposed on a fellow passenger.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSpanish officials said the flight was about to depart from Lanzarote airport when one of the pilots called for police assistance.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe incident apparently started when a passenger was asked to pay an additional bag fee for an oversized piece of luggage.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOther passengers already on board jumped to the defense of the traveler and as more people joined in, the situation quickly got out of hand.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nPolice briefly removed all 168 passengers on board before clearing 64 travelers to re-board the flight.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe rest were asked to find seats on other carriers or spend the night at the airport.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe BBC reported that nearly 70 students from the University of Brussels were still stuck at Lanzarote airport Sunday night.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/travel.usatoday.com\/flights\/post\/2011\/02\/ryanair-mutiny-bag-fees\/141816\/1\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; All 168 passengers were briefly removed from the flight &nbsp; Spanish police removed 100 students from a Ryanair flight in the Canary Islands this weekend after they staged a mutiny over a bag fee imposed on a fellow passenger. &nbsp; Spanish officials said the flight was about to depart from Lanzarote airport when one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}