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Web Check-in

  • 09-11-2009 11:10AM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,451 ✭✭✭


    I Just read an article on the SBP that Ryanair will soon be charging 100 euro for airport check in, thus pushing everyone to use web check in instead.

    This got me thinking. If we are going towards total web checkin, why have checkin at all? Is this not just a relic from the past? Will we reach a stage in a few years time where you just arrive at the airport with your passport, go through security and board the plane?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 407 ✭✭AfterDusk


    There's no such thing (and there hasn't been for a while) as airport check-in with Ryanair anymore. It's been completely online check-in for ages. The penalty is for those who "forget" to print off their boarding card and have to get it done at the airport. If you're stupid enough to forget that you need a piece of paper to board the plane, then you deserve to pay €100!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 812 ✭✭✭Dacian


    arctictree wrote: »
    .......... Will we reach a stage in a few years time where you just arrive at the airport with your passport, go through security and board the plane?
    No, because you need a boarding pass to prove you should be going thru security.

    Security check to make sure you should be allowed thru. The airline staff then check to make sure you are entitled to be on the flight and tick you off on the list. The aircraft staff then check to make sure are on the right aircraft. Boarding passes of some sort are needed for these mutually supporting checks.

    Perhaps if they install passport scanners which are preloaded with the names of all pax travelling that day. Am sure this would be open to problems due similar/duplicate names.


    At least 1 US airline sends a barcode to your phone as a pic/text message. this can be scanned at security to act as your 'boarding card'.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Dacian wrote: »
    passport scanners which are preloaded with the names of all pax travelling that day. Am sure this would be open to problems due similar/duplicate names.

    Air France has a system at London City that scans your passport and then prints out your boarding pass. very simple and very quick.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,941 ✭✭✭pclancy


    Anything that helps reduce check in times for those with handbaggage is good in my opinion but 100 bucks is quite sore. Especially for the many different groups of people for whom the internet is still a mystery.

    Not everyone has the net, some people will always need a check-in and a ticket, I know plenty of old people that would flip at being asked to pay that kind of money for what they have always assumed is normal service from an airline.

    If I'm travelling light then its a no brainer. I just wonder about some of the rest of the population that can't even manage double clicking never mind actually checking in online.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    pclancy wrote: »
    Anything that helps reduce check in times for those with handbaggage is good in my opinion but 100 bucks is quite sore. Especially for the many different groups of people for whom the internet is still a mystery.

    Not everyone has the net, some people will always need a check-in and a ticket, I know plenty of old people that would flip at being asked to pay that kind of money for what they have always assumed is normal service from an airline.

    If I'm travelling light then its a no brainer. I just wonder about some of the rest of the population that can't even manage double clicking never mind actually checking in online.

    Not everyone has a printer!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 812 ✭✭✭Dacian


    pclancy wrote: »
    ..........I just wonder about some of the rest of the population that can't even manage double clicking never mind actually checking in online.
    Oh God, I had a project partner back in college. She couldn't double click. Literally just couldn't comprehend that it was 2 clicks in succession, she clicked then slowly clicked again. What a hassle.

    "No no no! Its a double click,not 2 clicks!!!"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,452 ✭✭✭✭Dont be at yourself


    If they can buy the ticket online, they can check in online. Simples.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    If they can buy the ticket online, they can check in online. Simples.

    unless you have booked a holiday for three weeks and have no access to the internet whilst away.

    These aren't charges, they are penalties and i am surprised no one has challenged them under Irish or UK law.


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