Ryanair - Probably a stupid question

Eponymous

But I won't know the answer if I don't ask...

Will be flying with checked baggage on Ryanair ex DUB, does each flight have its own check-in desk or is it like Aer Lingus where there's just one queue for all flights?

kitten_k

You will need to check in online and print your boarding pass. When you get to the airport you will have to go to Ryanair bag drop which is just one big area.

Xcellor

Eponymous wrote: »

But I won't know the answer if I don't ask...

Will be flying with checked baggage on Ryanair ex DUB, does each flight have its own check-in desk or is it like Aer Lingus where there's just one queue for all flights?

Usually they have zones for specific departures. Just look up when you go into arrivals at the screen for your time of departure/ryanair and it should say zone. Usually ryan air is to the right when you walk into T1.

munchkin_utd

Eponymous wrote: »

But I won't know the answer if I don't ask...

Will be flying with checked baggage on Ryanair ex DUB, does each flight have its own check-in desk or is it like Aer Lingus where there's just one queue for all flights?

its actually not a stupid question as Dublin airports stupid layout in Terminal 1 used to mean that every flight, or small group of flights, was allocated a couple of specific desks meaning you could not use an empty desk nearby allocated to a different destination.

Of course that stupidity was only compounded by the insanity that you had to convert a paper ticket to a boarding pass at 6am along with 700 passengers at only 3 desks for 4 flights departing within an hour of each other. With the space to queue to wait for the desk being so cramped it wasnt so much of a queue than a human mass of people standing about frustrated and anxious to make their flight
(and this is before you get near the security queue!)

If anyone had the pleasure of enduring that stupidity that you had to go to a specific desk with a massive queue even when the other half of the desks for the airline in the terminal was nowhere near as crowded, then its not a stupid question to ask if Dublin airport Terminal 1 is still the same.

ProudDUB

Eponymous wrote: »

But I won't know the answer if I don't ask...

Will be flying with checked baggage on Ryanair ex DUB, does each flight have its own check-in desk or is it like Aer Lingus where there's just one queue for all flights?

When you walk in the door of the terminal building, turn right. The Ryanair desks are down at the end of the terminal, against the back wall. There are about 4 or 5 desks allocated to Ryanair. A couple of them handle check ins and bag drop offs & a couple do visa/passport checks for non EU travellers. Then there is a "spare" desks that seems to be for random enquiries.

There will be a sign above each desk telling you which one is which. The desks handle the passengers for all the flights. There won't be one desk handling the Standsted check ins and another doing the Manchester check ins and another doing the Gatwick check ins etc etc. With so many people checking in and printing off boarding passes online, there is no longer any need to assign a check in desk for each flight.