Flying Ryanair? It's just changed its hand luggage rules

Update: Ryanair changed its rules again in November 2018. For the most up-to-date information see 21 Ryanair Tips.

From Monday 15 January the budget airline is only allowing you to take one SMALL piece of hand luggage into the cabin – rather than the two items allowed until recently – unless you pay for priority boarding.

Ryanair had originally planned to make the change in November, but postponed it. The airline, which came under fire last year for routinely allocating groups of travellers seats in different rows and then cancelling hundreds of flights, said the delay was to "allow customers more time to familiarise themselves with the policy changes".