Ryanair to charge for airport desk check-in

richardw

http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/news.php?yr=07&month=aug&story=gen-en-240807

dmg24

Free online check and priority boarding in for those with only hand luggage - fantastic!

TBeckett100

it wont be long before ryanair is te same price as BA et al. so that is now £6.00 to check in and have a bag.

dmg24

TBeckett100 wrote: »

it wont be long before ryanair is te same price as BA et al. so that is now £6.00 to check in and have a bag.

Don't you mean £7 (£2 check in and £5 baggage)? I think it would make more sense just to increase the baggage charge?

Still great for regional types, especially for us that travel light! x

paulinespens

If the oxygen ever failed on a Ryan Air flight they be charging you £10 or €15 for the oxygen masks.

susank

I love them as they are the only airline I can afford to fly with and enjoy my holidays - I have always purchased priority check in as it is much easier

richardw

paulinespens wrote: »

If the oxygen ever failed on a Ryan Air flight they be charging you £10 or €15 for the oxygen masks.

BTW for passengers who need Oxygen for medical reasons during a flight, Ryanair won't sell it to you but BA will.

TBeckett100

paulinespens wrote: »

If the oxygen ever failed on a Ryan Air flight they be charging you £10 or €15 for the oxygen masks.

if i am next to the exit window the cabin crew will be paying £000's to pass me....

peterbaker

This is a step too far.

It is a blatant abdication of part of the security process. We always knew Ryanair weren't much interested in caring for their throughput (us).

Airport duty will have to go up because of this to pay for even more vigilant 'one step only' security by BAA and the like. How can it be secure to have hoards of people airside who haven't even been identified by their airline? Already we have a situation where I see nothing to stop me buying penny tickets with Ryanair and spending a whole day out airside at Stansted exploring security weaknesses for any purpose I like? Do we not think that people traffickers haven't already exploited that phenomenum months ago?

Time for the UK Government to step in and remove Ryanair's choice of who does their check-in and front of house security work for them, create a separate security area purely for "online check-ins" who haven't been identified and haven't affirmed that they are free of prohibited items.

There is a general sickness in our airports now which reflects the leading airlines' indifference to caring for people. We have airports like Stansted where neglect is rife across the spectrum from a situation where the majority of baggage trolleys have no brakes to one where I have heard that we have people working airside in our airports who are driving vehicles into bits of aeroplanes and too often not telling anyone for fear of their low paid jobs, and at the pointy end we have pilots effectively bribed or coerced into working stupidly long hours at short notice, such is the fear of losing their jobs also, and such is the caring in O'Leary's employment model.

It must stop. There is no control. I heard that the CAA only has about twenty airport inspectors countrywide! Can anyone confirm that's true? How can so few be effective? They can't. I bet there are more British Transport Police in the East End of London who sit in BMWs all day than there are CAA Airport inspectors in the whole of UK!

The CAA should be employing additional inspectors to completely review the systems both landside and airside and serve notice for management improvements to bring everything back up to a safe standard.

Put this and the Ryanair's abdicated front of house work out to tender and charge Ryanair by arbitrary Fuel Tax Surcharges.

I am all for cheap flights but O'Leary tearing the a**e out of essential parts of the system now. He is out of control. Never ever trust a corporate accountant with your life.

budgetflyer

Peter. Ryanair did not invent online check in. Lots of airlines allow you to do this.
I dont see what the problem is. They pay airports millions of £££s to take care of security.
Of course, if we werent (justifyably?) hated by most of the world, then we probably wouldnt need half the security

Andy_L

Plenty of airlines have been doing on-line check in for ages.