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Ryanair sequence numbers

  • 08-05-2010 3:24pm
    #1
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,144 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Just checking in for some flights and just spotted something new on the Ryanair page I'd not seen before:
    Ryanair Checkin Page wrote:
    When you check-in online if you are issued a sequence number of 190 or above (located at the top right of the boarding pass). Please go to the airport check-in desk on arrival at the airport. Airport check-in desks open 3 hours prior to departure and close 60 minutes prior.

    I didn't get a sequence numbers above 190, but just curious as to if anyone else has before or what it might all be about. Are they having to do some random extra checks on people at the checkin desks, which kind of destroys the purpose of online checkin?


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  • #2
    yuloni
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  • #3
    bluenose1956
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91 ✭✭bluenose1956


    I think there are 189 seats on a Boeing 737-800, so my guess is any sequence over 190 means the flight is overbooked.


  • #4
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,144 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    Maybe their standard system of overbooking but counting on X number of people not bothering to turn up got broken recently with the trouble we've been getting from Iceland. Would they be getting fined by the airports if they let too many people airside than they could fit on the planes and don't want to get caught out by that again?


  • #5
    ajmorno
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16 ✭ajmorno


    Yes it happened to me and it is due to the Volcano. If you have a number of 190 or more you will be put on standby. Anyone elses brain hurt trying to understand Robinph last sentence?!


  • #6
    Wozza2404
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭Wozza2404


    They've done this because of the high level of cancellations because of the volcano.

    Basically if 100 people check in online, but then 10 of them cancel, Ryanair can't re-use the sequence numbers from the cancellations, so they have to go higher than 190.

    It just means that they need to check who you are and check you in properly. I've done it a couple of times.


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