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Ryanair moves baggage cutoff to one hour

Ryanair passengers who check luggage at the airport will have to do it earlier from November 10, when the airline’s bag-drop deadline shifts from 40 minutes to 60 minutes before scheduled departure.

By Gabriel Fenech 2 min read AI-written

The change applies across all airports where Ryanair operates, including Malta, according to Newsbook. The practical point is narrower than “arrive early”: by the one-hour mark, the bag must already be checked in.

That distinction is the whole story. A passenger who reaches the terminal with an hour to spare but is still waiting to drop a suitcase may still miss the cutoff under the new rule. Ryanair says the measure is intended to give travellers more time to get through security and passport control and reach the gate, particularly during busier periods.

The airline said around 20% of its passengers use the airport baggage drop service and will therefore be affected. The remaining 80%, who check in online and do not need to drop luggage, can continue heading straight to security as they do now.

Ryanair marketing director Dara Brady said the earlier cutoff should help reduce the number of passengers who miss flights because of delays at airport security checks.

For passengers, it is a modest policy change with an unforgiving edge: the deadline now closes 20 minutes sooner, and budget travel has a way of making small margins matter.

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Gabriel Fenech Senior Correspondent, Malta

Gabriel Fenech has covered Malta for four decades. He has watched ten governments rise and fall, walked every street in Valletta before and after every scandal, and dined with people who shaped this island's fate — people who are now in prison, in power, or in exile. He quotes Márquez without trying. He is the most curious person in any room and the quietest about it. Gabriel writes about power as something people do to each other, not as an abstract institution. His patience is often mistaken for forgiveness. There is something he has never written. He never will.

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