Ryanair Online Checkin - What happens if you forget?

SuperStarHoney

Just wondering does anyone know what happens if you forget to online checkin (Ryanair) before the four hour cut off? Are you just fecked basically or can the situation be rescued? :rolleyes:

Victor

You have to pay a fortune at the airport.

P. Breathnach

Perhaps I should rent a desk at the airport, get myself a basic internet setup, and offer an online checkin service for, let's say, €20 a time.

SuperStarHoney

P. Breathnach wrote: »

Perhaps I should rent a desk at the airport, get myself a basic internet setup, and offer an online checkin service for, let's say, €20 a time.

I don't think that would work, isn't the cut of four hours before the flight? So once you were at the airport it would be too late. Anyways this hasn't happened to me, I'm just wondering, does anyone actually know?

MonkeyTennis

you check in at the desk and they charge you. It was a 5er I think its more now

SuperStarHoney

MonkeyTennis wrote: »

you check in at the desk and they charge you. It was a 5er I think its more now

Oh right so you can still do this? I thought Ryanair had effectively done away with all airport check in facilities.

undo

SuperStarHoney wrote: »

Oh right so you can still do this? I thought Ryanair had effectively done away with all airport check in facilities.

You still can. But the fee is huge. €40 right now and rumor has it, rising to €100 soon. They still have staff at the airport and these are able to issue boarding passes - but Ryanair wants to discourage that and so charges this astronomical fee.

At Dublin airport, there actually are Internet terminals with printers. I remember someone posting here or on AAM recently that he used those to print his boarding pass. Of course once you make it to the airport, it is generally too late for online check-in. But it could happen that someone checked in and then forgot to print or lost their boarding pass. In this case, if you ask Ryanair for a new one, it will be €40. If you go to the Internet terminals and print a replacement one yourself, it will be a couple quid. You do the math .

Irishdudedave

The online check-in facility is available from 15 days up to 4 hours prior to departure.

Passengers who fail to print out their boarding cards online will be charged €40 at the airport per passenger per one way flight.

Bluetonic

P. Breathnach wrote: »

Perhaps I should rent a desk at the airport, get myself a basic internet setup, and offer an online checkin service for, let's say, €20 a time.

Don't forget to factor in the €50,000 rental charge on the desk from the DAA plus having your customers to arrive 4+ hours in advance.

For that reason I am out.

Vestak1

Ryanair are robbing b*stards charging that amount,scandalous.

undo

Vestak1 wrote: »

Ryanair are robbing b*stards charging that amount,scandalous.

Why? There is a perfectly working, free option. And as opposed to the whole CC fee thing, it is actually dead easy not to get hit with the €40 fee.

The way I see it, they are actually doing poorly organized customers a favor by offering to print boarding passes for €40. They could just as well say "no boarding pass, no flight - get lost". So offering to bail one out in this situation is an extra service - and the charge is designed to make sure it is used in emergencies only.

Also, Ryanair will e-mail you and remind you to print your pass. They are not trying to hide the fee in any way. Really, for once, I do not see any fault on Ryanair's side.

SuperStarHoney

Thanks for all the replies. I don't think Ryanair are robbing b*st*ards, obviously everyone should be able to check in online but sometimes things can go wrong so it's good to know that if they do, you can still check in at the airport for a fee.

cson

undo wrote: »

The way I see it, they are actually doing poorly organized customers a favor by offering to print boarding passes for €40. They could just as well say "no boarding pass, no flight - get lost". So offering to bail one out in this situation is an extra service - and the charge is designed to make sure it is used in emergencies only.

To be honest, there's no way it's doing customers a favour. As with all things of this nature with Ryanair, if it suits them then they'll do it. And it clearly suits them to charge to €40 extra in addition to having another passenger on the aircraft who might buy refreshments or scratchcards. It's certainly not in their interests to leave the seat free at that late stage.

undo

cson wrote: »

It's certainly not in their interests to leave the seat free at that late stage.

In that vein, I wonder what purpose boarding passes serve at all these days. A passport or government ID is required to fly. Both of those are machine-readable. So why not just scan ID documents before security instead of boarding passes? It would remove one more hassle. The only reason I can see is some law that dictates boarding passes have to be issued.