Ryanair's new 7-day check-in rules

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MiserlyMartin wrote: »

That's correct. Lets explain this a bit more in simple terms for some of the more mentally challenged posters on this thread. I've had to pay the £10 because I know that finding a place which will have a PC linked to a computer is going to be difficult. I'll have a car and be touring but I've never seen an internet cafe. Anywhere. Lets face it, internet cafes are not really the thing anymore since like the 90's and 00's. Most have closed. Wi-fi everywhere has made them redundant. But the likes of Costa coffee and Mc Donalds do not have A4 printers for your use.

A hotel might take pity on you and let you go around use their desk PC and printer but they are soon going to get fed up with doing that for lots of people or see a handy reason to charge extortionately for it for desperate fliers.

So :
1. You might be lucky on holiday and find somewhere like a library with a printer. But you will have to incorporate that into your holiday and spend time going there and doing it, and frankly on holiday you should really have better things to do and worry about.

2. You will be worried that you will be able to get to the place to print. Will it have paper? Will it be open? What else could go wrong? If you don't manage to check in and print your boarding pass then Ryanair will charge you £70 at the airport. So its a big risk to take. Because of this £70 charge for a card which used to be provided at no cost to passengers, your are effectively blackmailed into reserving seats, at another cost! A boarding card or piece of paper probably costs Ryanair 5p. Yet they charge you £70.

So no, their improvements to fair charges and customer annoyances have spectacularly backfired.

Despite this, I still remain a Ryanair fan and will defend any other stick they get which is wrong or misunderstood. They are not as bad as some people make out.

Absolute codswallop.
Any decent hotel will have internet and printing facilities for guests and internet cafes/business centres are omnipresent.
I cannot think of anywhere in the half dozen different countries across the globe I've been to in the last few months which didn't have a readily available way of printing off boarding passes.
From the back of beyond in Sri Lanka, a one-horse town in America, an AI in Barbados, a Spanish Costa and a remote village in the Pyrenees.

CCFC_80

Deleted_User wrote: »

Absolute codswallop.
Any decent hotel will have internet and printing facilities for guests and internet cafes/business centres are omnipresent.
I cannot think of anywhere in the half dozen different countries across the globe I've been to in the last few months which didn't have a readily available way of printing off boarding passes.
From the back of beyond in Sri Lanka, a one-horse town in America, an AI in Barbados, a Spanish Costa and a remote village in the Pyrenees.

Not necessarily true. I bet appartments won't have any printers in remote resorts and if they do, they're not exactly going to do it for free are they?. Who wants to be doing this whilst on holiday anyway?. This is the whole point of the thread. O'leary has clearly scored an own goal here as why not just add on the allocated seat charge to the price of the ticket. Most people probably wouldn't have noticed leaving everyone happy:D

zaksmum

CCFC_80 wrote: »

Not necessarily true. I bet appartments won't have any printers in remote resorts and if they do, they're not exactly going to do it for free are they?. Who wants to be doing this whilst on holiday anyway?. This is the whole point of the thread. O'leary has clearly scored an own goal here as why not just add on the allocated seat charge to the price of the ticket. Most people probably wouldn't have noticed leaving everyone happy:D

This would have been a much better option.

They have become quite expensive now anyway and an extra few quid on the ticket price might well have gone unnoticed.

They no longer do the "no taxes and fees" tickets that used to be found at times, bringing the price down - maybe they're planning on some "no seat allocation fees" over the next few months as a promo.

Put the price up, then con the customers into thinking they're getting a good deal when it briefly comes down again.

jpsartre

CCFC_80 wrote: »

I bet appartments won't have any printers in remote resorts and if they do, they're not exactly going to do it for free are they?. Who wants to be doing this whilst on holiday anyway?. This is the whole point of the thread. O'leary has clearly scored an own goal here as why not just add on the allocated seat charge to the price of the ticket.

Why not just add the cost yourself? Or fly with somebody else if it bothers you and others so much? Sometimes the solutions to people's problems are amazingly simple.

CCFC_80

jpsartre wrote: »

Why not just add the cost yourself? Or fly with somebody else if it bothers you and others so much? Sometimes the solutions to people's problems are amazingly simple.

It doesn't bother me but O'leary has got this so wrong. I'm a big fan of Ryanair and have flown with them in the past to Prague and Reus for a penny avoiding the additional extras. I am flying to Majorca with them next week on a 10 day trip which means I will have no problems checking in on the outgoing departure avoiding this part of the journey's allocated seating charge. I will have to book allocated seating for the return journey

I believe that this extra for most people on a trip of more than 7 days is very difficult to avoid as who wants the hassle of going to find an internet cafe on holiday to print off their boarding cards. The previous extras could be avoided easily with paying by their special credit card,No priority boarding, no checking in bags etc They were easy to abide with.

zaksmum

CCFC_80 wrote: »

It doesn't bother me but O'leary has got this so wrong. I'm a big fan of Ryanair and have flown with them in the past to Prague and Reus for a penny avoiding the additional extras. I am flying to Majorca with them next week on a 10 day trip which means I will have no problems checking in on the outgoing departure avoiding this part of the journey's allocated seating charge. I will have to book allocated seating for the return journey

I believe that this extra for most people on a trip of more than 7 days is very difficult to avoid as who wants the hassle of going to find an internet cafe on holiday to print off their boarding cards. The previous extras could be avoided easily with paying by their special credit card,No priority boarding, no checking in bags etc They were easy to abide with.

Penny flights have long disappeared. This was how Ryanair made itself popular in the first place - a very good marketing ploy.

Obviously those prices could never be sustained but they seem to be going in the opposite direction now. They are becoming expensive. The cheapest flight we could find with them from our local airport to our Spanish mainland destination was £240 (2 return flights) in mid May. Low season, no extras at all, and only hand luggage. This will of course become £260 if we pay for the standard seat allocation.

For the first time, Easyjet have become cheaper than Ryanair. We will book with them next time.

budgetflyer

Its a bit like supermarket shopping. Brand loyalty will cost u. There's nothing wrong with flying out with A and flying back with B or C.
And just because they are cheap from/to one place doesn't mean the same for everywhere.
I was looking Edin to IBZ.
Usual suspects, Ryanair + Jet2 crazy in July.

BA , one of their few direct routes from a regional airport completely give them both a doing price wise.

jpsartre

CCFC_80 wrote: »

I believe that this extra for most people on a trip of more than 7 days is very difficult to avoid as who wants the hassle of going to find an internet cafe on holiday to print off their boarding cards. The previous extras could be avoided easily with paying by their special credit card,No priority boarding, no checking in bags etc They were easy to abide with.

I don't disagree but once again, if someone thinks it's a big problem they don't have to fly Ryanair. Reading this and other threads you'd get the impression that people are forced on their planes. Just fly someone else if you don't like the product they're offering.

rustyboy21

So according to two Ryanair 'loyal' customers, they are against them charging for seat allocation, but have no issue with them putting the price on the ticket straight away, what is the sense in that?
All it means, is that someone who may be going for a long weekend is going to be charged the same amount as someone who goes for 4 weeks. That, IMO isn't fair. It is just making it dearer for the less well off, who cannot afford to have 4 weeks away, who can just about afford to have a long weekend, whilst offsetting YOUR price onto them!


Seems a bit selfish to me. Or do you mean, others, who are less well off, shouldn't be going on holiday anyway?

zaksmum

You would probably pay the same anyway if you were going for a long weekend as you would if going for 4 weeks.

The flight prices are just per flight. No account is taken of how long you will be away for.