Ryanair's new 7-day check-in rules

NFH

I still don't understand why Ryanair unreasonably insists on the boarding pass being printed on to paper, which is unnecessarily harmful to the environment. Although Ryanair is dragging its heels in implementing mobile boarding passes, there is no reason in the interim why a passenger shouldn't be able to present a PDF boarding pass on a mobile phone and to expand the barcode, if necessary, so that it can be scanned.

Perhaps airlines that insist on paper boarding passes should face a tax per boarding pass in order to encourage them to move to more environmentally-friendly and practical formats.

Westin

So you are concerned about the paper boarding card being harmful to the environment before boarding a jet aircraft about to burn kerosene in the atmosphere? Hmmmm

MarkBargain

Deleted_User wrote: »

Somehow I doubt it.
Ryanair's passenger loads are the envy of most other airlines, their profit margins too.
82.5 milllon customers a year against a few tightwads on MSE who can't be arsed to show a bit of gumption and find an internet link with a printer that virtually every hotel in the world has ? No contest.

Is it because when people are in their holiday hotel they want to totally relax, unwind and get away from the stresses of modern life? They do not want to be 'arsed' to find a computer connected to a printer and the internet, pay a fee to use them probably, log onto the Ryanair website, find and enter all their flight and passport details, scroll through screens ticking 'no' to extra after extra...and remember they will haev already done all this once at home for the outgoing flight! What a lot of hassle.

jpsartre

MarkBargain wrote: »

Is it because when people are in their holiday hotel they want to totally relax, unwind and get away from the stresses of modern life? They do not want to be 'arsed' to find a computer connected to a printer and the internet, pay a fee to use them probably, log onto the Ryanair website, find and enter all their flight and passport details, scroll through screens ticking 'no' to extra after extra...and remember they will haev already done all this once at home for the outgoing flight! What a lot of hassle.

Those people should obviously just pay the seat selecting fee then. Sounds like a bargain to avoid all that hassle.

MarkBargain

jpsartre wrote: »

Those people should obviously just pay the seat selecting fee then. Sounds like a bargain to avoid all that hassle.

Two points:

1) They would not be paying the fee to select a seat, but to be able to check-in before travel (which used to be free, indeed online check-in was brought in to save the airlines money).

2) The extra £5 is not clear on the website front page or the early booking screens, so that's not fair when people are trying to compare prices with other airlines.

jpsartre

It's still free, the time-frame within which you can do it has simply been changed. The fee needn't be clearer on the front page than any other optional fee airlines charge. It's amazing how much people will complain over such a measly sum.

NFH

jpsartre wrote: »

It's amazing how much people will complain over such a measly sum.

When it's a point of principle, it makes no difference whether it's a penny per passenger or £1000 per passenger. It is a bad practice in both cases, and one should look at the aggregate amount across all passengers, not the individual amount affecting one passenger.

jpsartre

Ah yes,the old "it's not the money, it's the principle" excuse for complaining

If it's the principle, then don't fly with them. Problem solved. I don't like the fact that there's no table service at McDonald's, hence I don't eat there. I don't go on and on on internet forums about how horrible it is.

peachyprice

jpsartre wrote: »

Ah yes,the old "it's not the money, it's the principle" excuse for complaining

If it's the principle, then don't fly with them. Problem solved. I don't like the fact that there's no table service at McDonald's, hence I don't eat there. I don't go on and on on internet forums about how horrible it is.

Except this rule came into effect AFTER people had booked and paid for their flights.

I don't have a problem with it for bookings made now, but I do think it's wring to impose the rule on people who had already booked, but I guess you'll just say they have the choice to cancel their flights.

zaksmum

peachyprice wrote: »

Except this rule came into effect AFTER people had booked and paid for their flights.

I don't have a problem with it for bookings made now, but I do think it's wring to impose the rule on people who had already booked, but I guess you'll just say they have the choice to cancel their flights.

We didn't know about it till after we'd booked.

We knew there had been changes but thought they had just extended the online check in from 15 days to 30.