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Ryanair will no longer accept printed boarding passes ...

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  • #92
    Avatar in the Post
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 994 ✭✭✭Avatar in the Post


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123912534#Comment_123912534

    You’re missing the point. How can they ban paper, when they supply paper tickets themselves? I have a smart phone, haven’t used paper pretty much since tickets can be kept on a phone.



  • #93
    Rocket_GD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,959 ✭✭✭Rocket_GD


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123912896#Comment_123912896

    Ask Ryanair, I can only tell you what they've said in their statement and in the OP.



  • #94
    ebbsy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,339 ✭✭✭ebbsy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123908235#Comment_123908235

    Ive seen somebody produce a photocopy of their passport at the gate.



  • #95
    Yeah Right
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,365 ✭✭✭Yeah Right


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123908198#Comment_123908198

    At which point, they print you a paper one that can be scanned at the gate…………so what's the feckin problem with printing your own, then? It makes no logical sense.

    "I'm sorry, Sir, we cannot accept this paper boarding pass, you must use a digital one on your phone…….what's that?……….your phone was stolen, well, in that case, please queue up at that desk over there, where they'll give you a printed paper boarding pass that is identical in every single fcuking way to the one that I just told you we cannot accept, then queue again for this line because we're a pack of baxtards here at Ryanair who want all your data and analytics"

    It's like something from WWN.



  • #96
    Dodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,013 ✭✭✭✭Dodge


    companies don’t care about logic, but you should.

    The logical step is to use the code on your phone. No drama at all

    You can, if you wish, print out stuff to see how rigidly the staff stick to their guidelines. But I wouldn’t be arguing about logic here

    I’ve always felt that companies, even those with sharp practices, do try and help those in need in exceptional circumstances (phone dead etc etc)

    People deliberating being obtuse just to test them just make it harder for the genuine edge cases to get deal with



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  • #97
    Tork
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,699 ✭✭✭Tork


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123912655#Comment_123912655

    I'm told sending a screenshot to Whatsapp works too. All of this is beside the point. If anything happens to your phone before you get to the gates, your options are limited. It's helpful to know that you can get a printout from the Ryanair desk if you can't use a phone but not everyone knows this. I certainly didn't until this thread came along. My default feelings about Ryanair are that the staff are hard to get hold of, won't be helpful and will make you fork out money for anything they do for you. I'd love to know how many people actually use a printed boarding pass to get through the gates nowadays.



  • #98
    Hellrazer
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 11,220 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hellrazer


    How will this work with a family of 5 travelling in November?

    I have all the boarding passes on the Ryanair app - do I have to hold up the whole queue so that I can scan each persons pass?



  • #99
    Allinall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭Allinall


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123913135#Comment_123913135

    How is that any slower than each person scanning their own pass in turn?



  • #100
    Hellrazer
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 11,220 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hellrazer


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123913137#Comment_123913137

    But with paper each one of us can go to a separate automatic gate and let themselves through but with this new way Ill have to scan , wait for the gate to let that person in, scan again next person and so on. Seems a lot slower to me.



  • #101
    Rocket_GD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,959 ✭✭✭Rocket_GD


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123913179#Comment_123913179

    You give your partner 2 of them, you scan 3, you'll be through in no time. Most parents scan their young children through already.

    If the kids have a tablet of any kind they can have their own boarding pass on that, it's all very simple, not sure why people are trying to complicate it.



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  • #102
    Tork
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,699 ✭✭✭Tork


    Printed out paper passes is still a hell of a lot more straightforward than having to put QR codes onto a series of kids' Amazon tablets, and ensuring they're powered up and ready to be scanned through the gates. That's better than printed boarding passes?



  • #103
    Allinall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭Allinall


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123913250#Comment_123913250

    Of course it is. And cheaper.

    Have you seen the price of paper and printer ink these days?



  • #104
    SuperBowserWorld
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,501 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123913179#Comment_123913179

    In the general flow it's the same. Different groups of people go-to different gates.



  • #105
    Working class heroes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,853 ✭✭✭Working class heroes


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123913214#Comment_123913214

    You seem to be going out of your way to defend Ryanair. Strange that.

    Racism is now hiding behind the cloak of Community activism.



  • #106
    Rocket_GD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,959 ✭✭✭Rocket_GD


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123913288#Comment_123913288

    What are you insinuating? I'm not nor have ever been a Ryanair employee. I fly with whoever is cheapest no matter where I go.

    I just don't get the big deal of it all, I'd say most people don't arrive to the airport with printed boarding cards anymore unless they get a bag checked in.

    I always get on a flight as close to last as possible to get the best seat and 90% seem to be already scanning their phones before boarding.



  • #107
    DoctorEdgeWild
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,234 ✭✭✭DoctorEdgeWild


    People will go any and all lengths to try and bash Ryanair. I'll never understand it. They provide a service, with their own rules and policies, we get to choose to use their service or not use their service. It really is that simple.



  • #108
    Hellrazer
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 11,220 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hellrazer


    Just for the record - Im not ryanair bashing - Im asking a genuine question - I dont want to look like that idiot standing at a gate scanning in 5 boarding passes to get everyone through.

    I probably travel Ryanair at least 6 times a year both for business and holidays and it is a concern - not so much when theres only 2 of us but with the kids its going to be a right pain!!!



  • #109
    Rocket_GD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,959 ✭✭✭Rocket_GD


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123913326#Comment_123913326

    You go first, scan yourself through, pass the phone back and so on, leave your partner at the back to be the last one through ahead of the kids, it's not difficult.

    People already do this at sporting events when all tickets are on the 1 phone.



  • #110
    Dial Hard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,309 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123913179#Comment_123913179

    Self-service, automatic boarding gates? Dunno what airports you're flying out of but I've never come across such a thing. Or do you mean Security, in which case there's already a dedicated family lane. And if your children aren't literal children, chances are they already have a phone, in which case you can send them a screenshot of their own boarding pass. And if they are that young, chances are you would have had to help them all scan their own passes anyway, even with printed one.

    I'm no Ryanair fangirl by any stretch of the imagination, but this is what I mean by people reaching for the most outlying examples they can think of to argue against stuff like this.



  • #111
    Marcusm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,978 ✭✭✭✭Marcusm


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123912400#Comment_123912400

    What they have said is mandatory check in and no home-printed boarding passes. F a smartphone is not used then they can queue up to get a free boarding pass at the airport.



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  • #112
    Marcusm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,978 ✭✭✭✭Marcusm


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123912509#Comment_123912509

    It happens and when I’m booked to go to my preferred Max8 seat if 2A, I’m the one who loses out!



  • #113
    Marcusm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,978 ✭✭✭✭Marcusm


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123913135#Comment_123913135

    That happens frequently already. You just flick between one and the other while the gate agent compares the ID photos to the faces in front!



  • #114
    LiamaDelta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 953 ✭✭✭LiamaDelta


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123913326#Comment_123913326

    I really don't see how one person with one device flicking through boarding passes, whilst the other 4 people walk past, could possibly take longer than 5 people having to have 5 devices unlocked ready open etc. where there is 5 chances that someone or one of the 5 devices will be on the wrong page/locked/time out/screen not bright enough etc etc. Even at entrance to security there is always someone with a hand scanner that is happy to scan 5 boarding passes and count 5 heads.



  • #115
    Tork
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,699 ✭✭✭Tork


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123913349#Comment_123913349

    People need another queue in the airport like a hole in the head.

    The vast majority of people (including myself) use their phones at the airport. That's usually the most convenient option, but sometimes it isn't. Home-printed boarding passes should still be an option for people, should they wish to use them. I'm sure it's a minority of people these days.



  • #116
    Marcusm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,978 ✭✭✭✭Marcusm


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123913250#Comment_123913250

    So queue up on the day and get your printed passes or fly with someone else.



  • #117
    Marcusm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,978 ✭✭✭✭Marcusm


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123913371#Comment_123913371

    In fairness, by making it clear that you acknowledge that only a small number of people will be affected, you are essentially acknowledging that it’s not a big problem. As regards elderly people, they will have spent most of their travelling lives collecting boarding passes at the airport - online check in and home-printed boarding passes have not been around that long.



  • #118
    trellheim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭trellheim


    If Ryanair refuse you travel after november because you rock up with paper, why on earth would you take that chance of missing travel over this kind of stuff ?

    They will be within their rights to do so



  • #119
    Dodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,013 ✭✭✭✭Dodge


    Are people seriously worrying over the time difference it takes for one phone with 5 passes to scan versus 5 individual bits of paper? We’re talking a few seconds either way when you’ll be sitting on a plane for 30 mins plus waiting for it to leave



  • #120
    LiamaDelta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 953 ✭✭✭LiamaDelta


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123913478#Comment_123913478

    I'm just praying I don't get stuck behind the fella with the chainsaw in his luggage as well, I'll be there for hours.



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  • #121
    Tork
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,699 ✭✭✭Tork


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123913394#Comment_123913394

    For what it's worth, I use the app when I'm travelling. What I have an issue with is them taking the option of a paper copy off the table, for reasons I can't fathom. Does a QR code on a piece of paper scan differently to a QR code on a phone? I once lost my phone shortly before flying and had to rely on a boarding pass I'd printed out. I was bloody glad to have it but, but apparently looking for a Ryanair desk and getting somebody to print one out is a better option?



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