cancelling flight after ive checked in online ryanair

snaps · 08-01-2010 8:59am #1

I want to cancel my outbound flight from Knock tommorrow morning to London. Ive already checked in online, Do I need to notify Ryan air? I want to keep my return flight as i may get another outbound flight next week when the weather is better?

shanagarry · 08-01-2010 9:51am

It will have no effect on your other flights as Ryanair don't do 'return'. What you have booked are two one way tickets that are completely independent of each other.

flikflak · 08-01-2010 10:48am

Ring them and tell them you wont be getting on the flight even though you have checked in. Otherwise everyone on the plane will have to wait while the crew are calling your name over the PA system.

robinph · 08-01-2010 10:52am

They won't call for long, if at all.

Spending time on the phone to them may however cost you money.

08-01-2010 10:54am

flikflak wrote: »

Ring them and tell them you wont be getting on the flight even though you have checked in. Otherwise everyone on the plane will have to wait while the crew are calling your name over the PA system.

They don't call your name for Ryanair flights.

OP don't worry about it. Has no impact on your inbound flight.

flikflak · 08-01-2010 12:25pm

Deleted User wrote: »

They don't call your name for Ryanair flights.

OP don't worry about it. Has no impact on your inbound flight.

They will call your name as I was sat on the plane having checked in twice for the same flight with a slightly different name. Even the captain was calling my name as I could not understand the broken English of the cabin crew member who originally called my, and a few other, names.

It is unfair for the plane to be hanging around waiting for people who check in then don’t turn up.

robinph · 08-01-2010 12:32pm

That sounds like it could have been the checking in twice caused their computer at the gate where they scan the boarding cards to get a bit confused and they didn't know if there was two of you got through or not.

If the number of boarding cards taken at the gate matches then number of people sat on the plane then they leave.

undo · 08-01-2010 12:44pm

They definitely do call checked-in passengers. It is probably not something you want to rely on but normally, if you check in and do not show up, Ryanair will call your name. So if possible, avoid checking in if you are not going to fly. But as you checked in already, don't worry about it. They will call a couple of times and then give up. No point in ringing them up - it will just cost you money.

mikedragon32 · 08-01-2010 1:00pm

If you've checked in but don't have luggage checked in, Ryanair really don't give a monkeys if you don't arrive at the gate. Yes they will put out a call, but no, they won't hold the flight.

They only hold flights where the late person has checked a bag into the hold, as it's much easier to hold on for a few minutes than dig out a bag from the hold.

08-01-2010 1:52pm

flikflak wrote: »

It is unfair for the plane to be hanging around waiting for people who check in then don’t turn up.

They used to have a policy where they didn't call names as it cost money for them to use the PA system.

As for checking in online, you are scanned through at security so Ryanair know if you have gone through there. If you haven't, then they consider you not checked in.

I know this because I booked two flights to London recently, one with Ryanair and one with Aer Lingus. The Ryanair flight was backup incase the aerlingus one didn't leave on time. I rang Dublin Airport to find out the situation on this as I was going to check in online for both flights. I was told that in the event my Aer Lingus flight did not take off and I wanted to get the ryanair flight. I would have to go back to landside and go through security again with my ryanair boarding pass because if I didn't do this, Ryanair would not have me registered as being on the flight.

So, unless you scan through at security, you will not be registered on that flight.

mikedragon32 wrote: »

They only hold flights where the late person has checked a bag into the hold, as it's much easier to hold on for a few minutes than dig out a bag from the hold.

This is also for security rather than convenience. To ensure you haven't put a bomb in your bag and then "missed" the flight.

mikedragon32 · 08-01-2010 2:16pm

I never implied anything, other than it's easier to wait than dig.

Of course flights shouldn't depart with bags and no matching passenger!

snaps · 08-01-2010 2:17pm

i'll ring knock later and try to speak to ryan air and tell them i wont be flying. Cheers for the advice. I wont ring their 0818 number though

undo · 08-01-2010 2:43pm

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So, unless you scan through at security, you will not be registered on that flight.

And in my experience, Ryanair will still call you. Silly, but they will...

flikflak · 08-01-2010 2:46pm

robinph wrote: »

That sounds like it could have been the checking in twice caused their computer at the gate where they scan the boarding cards to get a bit confused and they didn't know if there was two of you got through or not.

If the number of boarding cards taken at the gate matches then number of people sat on the plane then they leave.

No, it was me twice with two separate bookings slightly different names - long story.

robinph · 08-01-2010 2:59pm

undo wrote: »

And in my experience, Ryanair will still call you. Silly, but they will...

How do you know though if you've not turned up for a flight?
Or if your basing that on being sat on the plane whilst they call out names, then how do you know what that person had got up to with their checking in or bag situation?

undo · 08-01-2010 3:04pm

I was going to fly DUB -> HHN with a friend. We both checked in. Due to unforeseen circumstances, I ended up going a couple of days earlier and waiting there fore him. So, on the day of our flight, he was on the plane and I was not. And he heard my name being called. I was checked in but definitely had not showed up in the airport that day.

08-01-2010 3:19pm

mikedragon32 wrote: »

I never implied anything, other than it's easier to wait than dig.

Of course flights shouldn't depart with bags and no matching passenger!

Oh I know you didn't! Just thought I'd throw a little fact in there :pac:

undo wrote: »

I was going to fly DUB -> HHN with a friend. We both checked in. Due to unforeseen circumstances, I ended up going a couple of days earlier and waiting there fore him. So, on the day of our flight, he was on the plane and I was not. And he heard my name being called. I was checked in but definitely had not showed up in the airport that day.

I'm sorry, but how would he have heard your name being called in the airport when he was on the airplane? I'm sorry but that doesn't make sense.

Fair enough if I was wrong on the other two counts, I'm going solely by what I have been told by 1. Ryanair and 2. DAA!

undo · 08-01-2010 7:30pm

Deleted User wrote: »

I'm sorry, but how would he have heard your name being called in the airport when he was on the airplane? I'm sorry but that doesn't make sense.

You've got a point there. I just checked with my friend: They were actually looking for me not just in the airport but also *on the plane*. That is kind of scary... that they would not be sure whether I was on board or not. Yes, I had checked in. But my boarding pass had not been scanned at security and had not been presented at the gate. Still, they thought I might somehow have slipped on board. So much for security...

08-01-2010 8:16pm

undo wrote: »

You've got a point there. I just checked with my friend: They were actually looking for me not just in the airport but also *on the plane*. That is kind of scary... that they would not be sure whether I was on board or not. Yes, I had checked in. But my boarding pass had not been scanned at security and had not been presented at the gate. Still, they thought I might somehow have slipped on board. So much for security...

Janey mackers, that's a bit worrying!

cancelling flight after ive checked in online ryanair

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