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Ryanair to up printed boarding passes to €100

  • 15-11-2009 7:53pm
    #1
    RATM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,591 ✭✭✭


    Be warned folks, make sure you print your boarding pass before you arrive at the airport.

    http://www.thepost.ie/news/ryanair-to-hike-non-printed-boarding-card-fee-to-100-45536.html
    Ryanair plans to increase the charge for passengers who do not print their own boarding cards to €100, in its latest effort to reduce its costs.

    Chief executive Michael O’Leary said that the increased charge would aim to eliminate instances of passengers turning up at airport check-in desks without their boarding cards. The airline currently charges passengers who do not print their own boarding cards €40 – or stg£40 (€44) if they are travelling from British airports.

    Speaking last week after the airline reported pre-tax profits of €419 million for the six months to September, O’Leary said that only ‘‘a tiny number of passengers’’ continued to pay the €40 fee, and that most were printing out their boarding cards at home when checking in online, before travelling to the airport.

    ‘‘You really must now check in before you get to the airport. If you don’t, the fine is €40; and if that doesn’t get rid of them all within a very short order, we double that fine to €100," O’Leary said. ‘‘We don’t want people showing up without the pre-printed boarding card."

    Ryanair recently implemented a policy of requiring all passengers to check in online. The airline continues to retain a small presence in airport check-in areas to allow passengers to check in their baggage – for a fee of €15 for the first bag and €35 for a second. Passengers without any bags to check in go straight to their departure gate without any contact with Ryanair staff.

    I'd say the people this will affect the most are older generations who get sons//daughters to book online for them but forget to print a boarding pass. Be warned, its going to be €100 per boarding pass, per flight. An expensive business indeed.


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  • #2
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    A yes ,Ryanair the airline that loves to shock ,actually nothing would surprise me with them anymore .I was due to fly to Dublin two weks ago ,had to cancel the flight ( cheap flight anyway) but with my printer on the blinky , I had to get the boarding pas printed on a friends printer.However I can see how some older people might get confused unles of course they have somebody to print it out for them .


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