Ryanair want to charge me £8 to check-in online

MarkBargain

I have checked in my outbound flight, but the Ryanair website won't let me check in the return flight until I am away. Unless we pay £8 EACH to reserve a seat that is. I could try to find a computer and printer abroad, maybe my hotel will help with this, but it is an extra stress. I believe there is an app, but I guess we would each need to download it, checkin while away, then hope our phones work on the day at the airport to show the boarding pass? What do others usually do?

No wonder people avoid Ryanair.

fifeken

MarkBargain wrote: »

What do others usually do?

Any of the things you suggest. Easy to do.

MarkBargain wrote: »

No wonder people avoid Ryanair.

Over 100 million passengers a year disagree with you.

ohreally

MarkBargain wrote: »

No wonder people avoid Ryanair.

Why didn't you?

AlexMac

MarkBargain wrote: »

I have checked in my outbound flight, but the Ryanair website won't let me check in the return flight...Unless we pay £8 EACH to reserve a seat that is...
No wonder people avoid Ryanair.

On balance that O'Leary boy's business model has proved wondrous, so who cares if he makes a few sovs?

In the early days of his pioneering routes to obscure European destinations, he took us to places we'd never have thought possible to visit; one pound flights to Girona (yes, really); a few quid to a string of destinations in northern France, Le Marche, the Abruzzi, Puglia and Calabria!

We worked the system; never carried more than hand luggage (a suitcase often cost more than the seat) and always read the T&C (if he sez check in online, that's what you do; as someone above says, most hotels have computrz).

We watched (and, again, marvelled and ducked and dived to avoid it) as he maximised profit; we switched credit cards to whichever one which avoided the £5 fee. We marvelled as he built up a destination, fuelled demand (in the case of those Italian regions I mentioned, everyone has a distant relative who fled to the UK- or other northern European countries - in the hungry years of the early 20th Century, so want to visit 'em now they are affluent). And having established a flow of people eager to fly, he reduced supply (3 flights a week not 7) and jacked up prices. So we moved on to another destination...

That's what you do.

Its called capitalism

Live with it

Buon viaje

MarkBargain

ohreally wrote: »

Why didn't you?

Ryanair dominate my local airport unfortunately.

I think I will ask at the hotel and see if they will help me print the return boarding pass. I could download the app but my phone storage is full so I'd have to delete some other stuff.

ManAtHome

Get the app - I've used it quite a few times now. When you load the boarding passes, it picks up everything on the booking and you can load to more than one smartphone. Load it to however many are travelling, then you only need one of them to work. Obviously charge up your mobiles the day before you travel.

Note - you can't use mobile boarding passes from North African airports (there's a list on the Ryanair site).

MarkBargain

ManAtHome wrote: »

Get the app - I've used it quite a few times now. When you load the boarding passes, it picks up everything on the booking and you can load to more than one smartphone. Load it to however many are travelling, then you only need one of them to work. Obviously charge up your mobiles the day before you travel.

Note - you can't use mobile boarding passes from North African airports (there's a list on the Ryanair site).

That's great, thanks very much, I will try the app in that case.

katejo

MarkBargain wrote: »

That's great, thanks very much, I will try the app in that case.

I had the same problem with Aer Lingus to Dublin and they don't have a working app. However I was able to print the return boarding pass at the hotel.

ManAtHome

A few extras...
Use the app on the way out when you have printed copies in your pocket. I did that the first time I used it - gives an extra bit of confidence.

Easier to get through security if you all have passes on your own phones - just swipe left/right to get to your own, can be a bit of a burger to pass one phone round. Ryanair staff are up to speed with multiple passes on one phone, so you should be ok at the boarding gate and getting on the plane with just one phone.

Once the passes are loaded you don't need access to the internet or the booking ref. Worth closing/re-opening the app with wifi off after you have checked in and (thought you...) loaded the passes.

If you're loading to more than one device, passes should load automatically to the first one after you've selected check-in and filled in API. On subsequent devices when you select boarding passes (need to fill in booking ref and email) it will say (something like) surely you meant 'check-in' - just hit check-in (nothing much happens), then 'boarding passes', you won't be asked for API this time. Bit confusing, but I suppose it's checking that you've checked-in...

Have a good holiday.

MarkBargain

Thanks, I have downloaded the app onto both our phones and our tablet so all three devices would need to fail to mess us up. The app was pretty easy to use and I found the boarding passes okay.