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Just days after 100 Belgian students sparked a dispute over baggage charges, causing trouble on a flight, the airline has asked Belgian universities to add courses on how to pack light to their curriculum.

The airline has also released a fun video giving plane passengers a lesson on packing and showing them how to travel light – therefore avoiding baggage charges.

The Belgian students involved in last Saturday’s dispute refused to pay charges for carrying extra hand luggage. They staged a protest on a plane due to travel from Lanzarote to Charleroi, prompting the police to order all passengers off the aircraft.

Ryanair’s head of communications Stephen McNamara said in a statement: “Ryanair is today calling on Belgian universities to ensure no further embarrassing international episodes when their students travel abroad by providing them with an online tutorial in how to pack light. This tutorial will allow these students to comply with the airline policies they accept when booking a flight.

"While this tutorial will avoid any unpleasant situations for students, airlines and fellow passengers, these universities should also address the media reports that their students damaged hotel accommodation and were a general menace to other holiday makers, by developing further tutorials such as ‘how to respect hotel rules’.

"Thankfully the unacceptable actions by this small group of students are not indicative of the behaviour of the many millions of university students from Belgium and elsewhere that travel with Ryanair every year.”

The video, which features the 'Benny Hill' theme tune in the background, shows a ‘master packer’ carefully packing his clothes in a small bag.

Watch the video tutorial here:




It's not packing light though coz that bag will weigh loads, and is prob likely to burst!!

legally, and i know its annoying, but ryanair are right. dont fly with them if u dont like it!
i had to pay 300 from london to dublin on ryanair when i was comin back from oz coz we had all our luggage. cost us less flyin halfway across asia!! but an hour flight with some bags cost us the same as a flight to italy or somewhere!!