Passengers mount mutiny over Ryanair baggage fee

A ROW over outsized baggage led to an oversized problem for Ryanair after 100 passengers mutinied on a flight departing a holiday island.

Passengers mount mutiny over Ryanair baggage fee

The airline called in the police and evacuated all 166 passengers from the plane boarding at Lanzarote, eventually allowing only 66 back on to fly home.

Anger erupted on the weekend flight to Charleroi in Belgium after a passenger was stopped at the boarding gate and asked to pay extra for a piece of outsized luggage he was carrying.

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