Stansted transfer, Ryanair to Ryanair without re-check in?

Polvo

No, I've still not tried it. I suppose that another way to put the question is "after getting off a European flight can you get from passport control back to the the large shopping area?".

mad_rich

Cheers for the response.

I'm going through STN on Thursday (domestic - international), so I will pay the web-check-in fee and try it. I've got plenty of time (in theory) between flights. It would just be nice if I could relax and have breakfast, rather than spend an hour or so in queues doing the liquid & laptop dance.

Will post back if I can.

phatbear

Ok maybe I can help, seeing as I work at Stansted.

It is impossible to transfer from one flight to another with ryanair at stansted, this has nothing to do with ryanair either, because airberlin occasionaly offer this service, you would be cleared through the lane which runs to the right of immigration, this is opened and baa security man the area and your bags would be moved from one flight to another, however this is purely a airberlin service.

Therefore to answer your question, no you cant transfer between flights you have to clear immigration, get your luggage then through customs, which by the way has some of the best looking customs officers in the land, and then re-check in.

All the best

the bear

mad_rich

Thanks for your post phatbear.

Does the same apply to domestic arrivals with no baggage (on easyJet) wanting to transfer to an international Ryanair flight?

I will keep an eye out for the stunning immigration officers on my return.

phatbear

You would also need to collect your baggage on a domestic flight and recheck in, even more so due to the fact that ryanair and easyjet use different baggage handling agents.

Anyway the immigration officers are quite ordinary here however the customs officers are the real attraction at stansted.

all the best and happy travels

the bear

exel1966

Like most Lo-Cost airlines in Europe Ryanair are a point to point airline i.e you go from A to B and you cannot connect onto another flight to get to C on the same ticket, therefore for each leg of the journey you have to re-check in.

Regardless of what people have tried to do it is illegal to try to avoid this as all inbound/outbound passengers have to be segregated by law unless on a connection which as i said before Lo-cost airlines like Ryanair do not do.

mad_rich

exel1966 wrote: »

Regardless of what people have tried to do it is illegal to try to avoid this as all inbound/outbound passengers have to be segregated by law unless on a connection which as i said before Lo-cost airlines like Ryanair do not do.

Do you have a source for that exel? Is it a UK law or a European one?

I've never tried it in the UK, but the same trick has worked several times in DUB. Arriving and departing passengers mingle freely, as they do in AMS.

I also imagine it would work OK here in NCL, where there's no segregation.

How does the law define a connecting passenger? Must they be on a single itinerary with a single ticket?