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By RUTH STAINER and HANNAH PHILLIPS Published: 12:00, 27 March 2025 | Updated: 12:00, 27 March 2025
A sneaky traveller managed to successfully avoid paying Ryanair’s baggage fees by creating a fake pregnancy bump.Grace Hale shoved two jackets and a bag full of makeup inside her top after realising they wouldn’t fit in her carry-on baggage.In a viral TikTok video titled ‘It’s a boy and we’re naming him Ryan’ the 20-year-old, who was travelling from London’s Stansted Airport to Edinburgh, showed herself with her fake ‘bump’.After walking through security, she bundled the items inside her top and wore a trench coat.The London business studies student even made up a cover story in case she was questioned by staff.Grace, from Dallas, Texas, said: ‘It’s ridiculously expensive if you want to take a bag on a Ryanair flight, so I just get the carry-on option and shove everything inside.’I like to take ten options for a three-day trip. We were running late, and the flight was so early. Grace Hale, 20, created a fake pregnancy bump by shoving two jackets and a bag full of makeup inside her top to avoid paying Ryanair’s ‘ridiculously expensive’ baggage fees Travelling from Stansted, London, to Edinburgh, she bundled the items inside her top and wore a trench coat after walking through security’I was scrambling and packing on the train to the airport, then I realised that the jackets and make-up bag weren’t going to fit.’I thought I’d act like I was pregnant. What would they say?’I practised in the train station by putting the make-up bag under my top, and I wrapped the jackets around it so nothing could fall out because that would be embarrassing.’Grace claims that staff even asked how far along she was, but she’d done her research beforehand.She added: ‘It was so funny. I Googled what pregnancy bumps looked like at different months and how far along I’d be.’I decided on 26 weeks, which is so lucky because at 28 weeks you need a doctor’s note.’They asked how far along I was and if I had said any more than I’d need a fit to fly.’ The London business studies student even made up a cover story in case she was questioned by staff, pretending she was 26 weeks pregnant Grace kept up the act until they disembarked the plane in Edinburgh and said she’s bound to use the hack again.She remarked: ‘There are going to be a lot of pregnant Ryanair passengers because it’s so expensive to take a bag with you.’Viewers took to the comments of her viral video, amassing more than 35,000 views, to praise Grace for her innovative thinking.One commenter said: ‘This is such a smart idea’ while another remarked ‘This is genius’.Ryanair was contacted for comment.
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The VERY sneaky way traveller got round Ryanair’s baggage fees
