Easyjet online check-in?

marc.faulkner

We're due to fly from Liverpool to Paris CDG on 1st March.

Have just logged in to enter the passport details etc and there is a section about online check-in.

Online check-in

Print your boarding pass in advance and speed up your airport experience. If you have one piece of hand baggage only, go through airport security and straight to the gate. If you carry hold baggage, drop it off at one of the designated desks in the airport check-in area.
Online check-in opens 60 days before a flight departs.

I was just a little confused, as I didn't think you could check in online if you had hold luggage? However that seems to suggest that we can, and there is somewhere to drop off the luggage?

Has anybody any experience of this? Is it likely to be worth our while, ie. will it save time at the airport and mean we don't need to be there so early?

Thanks!

lfc321

Easyjet do now allow you to check in online with luggage - at Liverpool they have bag drop counters for people who have checked in online. TBH you don't save much time - you still have to present your boarding pass, passport etc at the bag drop counter. The online check-in system with bags all works fine, though.

teallach

I've never got the whole 'checking in online' thing. You still have to queue, still have to show your passport and ticket details and you still have to answer questions relating to your luggage....so what is the point?
I realise I'm probably missing the obvious, so if anyone would care to enlighten me, I'd be very grateful:D

tobiascurious

teallach wrote: »

I've never got the whole 'checking in online' thing. You still have to queue, still have to show your passport and ticket details and you still have to answer questions relating to your luggage....so what is the point?
I realise I'm probably missing the obvious, so if anyone would care to enlighten me, I'd be very grateful:D

the idea is that you don't have any cabin luggage so just sail thru security

and no-one does tickets any more lol

spiro

teallach wrote: »

I've never got the whole 'checking in online' thing. You still have to queue, still have to show your passport and ticket details and you still have to answer questions relating to your luggage....so what is the point?
I realise I'm probably missing the obvious, so if anyone would care to enlighten me, I'd be very grateful:D

Ryanair have been doing online checkin for all passengers for some time now hold luggage or not. When you get to the bag drop they dont ask you any questions they just tag your bag and give you the receipt ticket. I think, but can't remember, that they ask the questions online. The advantage at some airports is that you can drop your bag at any open bag drop desk you dont have to find the one for your flight.

If Ryanair get their way hold luggage will be dealt with like it is in the USA where you carry you bags to/from the plane that way if you dont board they dont have to find you luggage and off load it.

lfc321

spiro wrote: »

When you get to the bag drop they dont ask you any questions they just tag your bag and give you the receipt ticket. I think, but can't remember, that they ask the questions online. .

This is true of easyjet. I honestly don't find it saves much time if you have luggage, but it's easy enough to do so why not.

spiro wrote: »

If Ryanair get their way hold luggage will be dealt with like it is in the USA where you carry you bags to/from the plane that way if you dont board they dont have to find you luggage and off load it.

Have never seen this at a US airport. They have very similar restrictions to the UK about what you can take through security so you wouldn't be allowed to take hold luggage through even if you wanted to. Which US airport were you thinking of specifically? Maybe some of the private jet terminals, but this isn't the system at normal airports IME.

Ryanair couldn't introduce it for the same reason - how would you clear security with hold luggage?

teallach

tobiascurious wrote: »

and no-one does tickets any more lol

ahaaa, but I said ticket 'details', not tickets;)
And that's another thing......why did they do away with tickets only to have everyone print out their own anyway?

tobiascurious

teallach wrote: »

ahaaa, but I said ticket 'details', not tickets;)
And that's another thing......why did they do away with tickets only to have everyone print out their own anyway?

ok

all you have to print is your boarding pass

budgetflyer

teallach wrote: »

ahaaa, but I said ticket 'details', not tickets;)
And that's another thing......why did they do away with tickets only to have everyone print out their own anyway?

Between Ryanair and Easyjet, by passengers printing their own, they are saving on printing, issuing + posting 100 million itineries +/or tickets + another 100 million boarding cards. Probably 400 or 500 million minutes of check in time also.

atillathehunn

I have recently checked into a flight from Newcastle to Rome on EasyJet, and I have opted to check-in online (although from reading above, this doesn't actually seem to achieve all that much...) and have got through to the point of printing the boaring pass, but it has printed the pass over two A4 pages. I did nothing to alter the size of the pass, and I have printed it directly from the Internet page, and also via converting it to a PDF. Has anyone else had this problem, and if so, when they got to the airport did it present itself as a problem that the pass was over two pages?

Thanking you in advance,

Alex

lynn2

I printed mine in two pages and just handed them in at check-in with no problems