How to print Aer Lingus Boarding pass??

tskk

I booked flights with Aer Lingus for a family of four. We are due to travel this Friday but all I have is a reference number and a confirmation email with the flight details. This email says it is not a boarding pass.

Does anyone know how I get my boarding passes?

Edward Hopper

tskk wrote: »

I booked flights with Aer Lingus for a family of four. We are due to travel this Friday but all I have is a reference number and a confirmation email with the flight details. This email says it is not a boarding pass.

Does anyone know how I get my boarding passes?

Have you booked seats? You probably have, but if not you won't be able to check in until 30 hours before flight, and then print your boarding passes.

If you have booked seats, you can go to their website and find the online check in. You'll need reference number and either email address you used or family name (can't remember which). Check in each passenger, then boarding pass options will become available.

whomitconcerns

Or just check in, in the airport?

tskk

Yes I did book our seats so I'll check out that option on their site. Thanks for that!

Miaireland

You can just type the refence number into the self service kiosk at the aiirport and it will print the boarding passes for you.

coylemj

tskk wrote: »

Yes I did book our seats so I'll check out that option on their site. Thanks for that!

Don't forget that if you do an online check-in more than 30 hours before your departure time, it will cost you money to select seats. Aer Lingus will send you an e-mail a few days before the flight encouraging you to check-in and select your seat - just ignore it as it's primary purpose is to spur you into checking in early and getting more money out of you.

As another poster has pointed out, you can also print your boarding cards at the green kiosks at the airport and given the number of people with electronic boarding passes (in smartphones) and people who print their boarding passes on an A4 sheet at home, those machines in the airport are seldom overloaded.

If you have paid for check-in luggage, note that Aer Lingus allow weight aggregation on a group booking so if you paid for 4 x 15kgs bags for your family of four, the only limit you need to be concerned with is that the total weight of your luggage does not exceed 60 kgs.

tskk

I already selected seats and paid for the privilege when I first booked the flights so I assume if I do the 30 hour online booking I shouldn't have any extra costs and print my boarding passes at home?

Strumms

look, here are you options...

1) Print at home as long as it is 30 hours between the check-in and departure. You need to check-in online to be able to print.

2) Print at the airport using self service machine.

3) Download the Aer Lingus App and you can check-in using that. You will have a barcode type boarding card on your phone that is scan-able.

4) Just go up to the check-in desk on the day of travel and do it.

You will not be charged a single cent more then you have already paid for, using any of these options.

Aer Lingus should have more details on the site, did you look there ?

coylemj

tskk wrote: »

I already selected seats and paid for the privilege when I first booked the flights so I assume if I do the 30 hour online booking I shouldn't have any extra costs and print my boarding passes at home?

If you've already paid for your seats then as long as the flight is in the next 30 days you can check-in any time you like and print the boarding cards with no additional charges.

Seriously, what you did was a waste of money. If you had waited until 30 hours before the flight you would have gotten a very good choice of seats and there would have been no charge.

tskk

When I booked the tickets seats together were limited. When you're travelling with kids you want to be with them. Wouldn't be a problem if I was travelling alone or with other adults.

Edward Hopper

tskk wrote: »

When I booked the tickets seats together were limited. When you're travelling with kids you want to be with them. Wouldn't be a problem if I was travelling alone or with other adults.

Yeah only reason I ever book seats is so I can sit with my children. Sometimes feel like booking so I'm NOT sitting next to to them too!

tskk

I suppose the airlines know this so its just another way for them to make money! The joys of travelling with children!!

munchkin_utd

tskk wrote: »

When I booked the tickets seats together were limited. When you're travelling with kids you want to be with them. Wouldn't be a problem if I was travelling alone or with other adults.

yea, i get the problem but with aerlingus I would trust them to seat you together, even allocating "premium" seats if necessary (which happened to ourselves a few times, once even after we had checked in together at the rear of the plane)

but as for the boarding passes, just pick them up at the airport. It takes 30 seconds to get them from the self service machine which is nearly quicker than printing at home with an ink jet.
You can even then change the seat allocation and leave the other half with the kids and set yourself to the other end of the plane!

coylemj

It wouldn't surprise me one bit if Aer Lingus faked the seat map so that if you're booking flights several weeks out and go to look at the seat map, it comes up with lots of the seats already allocated which in the case of someone like the OP with kids, would tend to panic you into paying for seats there and then.