Ryanair will no longer accept printed boarding passes ...

trellheim · 28-10-2025 05:27PM

you can buy USB-C cables with USB-A adapters tied to each end that you can take off or put on as required.

Noxegon · 30-10-2025 10:47AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123944246#Comment_123944246

You can. And that's something else small and fiddly to break and/or lose. I've managed to do both in the last year 😀

trellheim · 31-10-2025 12:35PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123948213#Comment_123948213

me too but until we're largely on USB-C thats how the cookie will crumble for the foreseeable

Noxegon · 04-11-2025 11:29AM

Interestingly, I have (this morning) checked in for a Ryanair flight on 14 November.

I downloaded the paper boarding pass as I always do.

Macy0161 · 04-11-2025 11:51AM

Just back from a trip to UK via Gatwick, and noticed a lot coming back using paper. Probably not Ryanair staff though?

Also, on the overbooking or not, I do know someone who was not let on, despite having an allocated seat, due to overbooking. They waited until the back of the queue at the gate, as "no rush, we have a seat" only to turned away and have to reschedule.

trellheim · 11-11-2025 10:27AM

And its exceeding rare to see anything other than a 738 at the Dub-LGW route , so always the same number of seats.

I do think they need to amend their charter/ts and cs to indicate they overbook now.

Juran · 12-11-2025 11:26AM

So the electronic boarding pass (smartphone ryanair app) comes into effect today. Interesting to see if any european group or government brings this to European Commision to challange the legal aspect of it.

Trampas · 12-11-2025 11:32AM

I would have thought if you booked a flight after x date then it’s only app boarding passes only no matter when you fly as it could be in their t&c so nothing illegal about it

davetherave · 12-11-2025 12:23PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123982252#Comment_123982252

What legal aspect would that be?

However you are not being forced to use the app. There is a reasonable accommodation provided, that you can go to the desk and get a printed boarding pass for no charge, if you have already checked-in.

The CSO has a dataset of Internet Coverage and Usage in Ireland 2023

https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-isshict/internetcoverageandusageinireland2023/devicesused/

Almost all persons aged under 60 years of age accessed the internet on their mobile phone or smartphone, while just over nine in ten (92%) older persons aged 60 to 74 years went online using their phone.

Ryanair has for a long time always charged for desk check-in, this cohort would presumably previously checked-in and had their paper boarding pass. They are still going to be able to check in online, and obtain a paper boarding pass.

The only thing might be a sticky issue is existing flights. I'm over to Leeds this weekend, had booked long before this was announced. I'm bring a bag and had priority so was able to check in before today. I'm pretty sure I had to option to print off my boarding pass, even though the flight is after the 12th. But that is no longer there today.

deandean · 12-11-2025 08:21PM

Right folks. I just checked in for a return flight from italy to dublin with a paper boarding pass I printed a week ago. It worked perfectly. The crew scanned it the same as she scanned the boarding passes on passenger's phones.

I seemed to be the only passenger with a paper boarding pass.

So - paper or app - the barcodes are all scanned the same.

Feck MOL and his profit-induced fear-mongering.

IngazZagni · 13-11-2025 09:46AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123983727#Comment_123983727

How did you generate the barcode?

davetherave · 13-11-2025 09:57AM

He printed off his boarding card last week, when they were still showing up on the bookings.

Cyclingtourist · 13-11-2025 10:08AM

I'm flying Ryanair in early December and checked in yesterday. Have wife's boarding card as well as my own on the App as well as my Google Wallet and shared wife's one with her via WhatsApp. We're both in our seventies and can handle it but certainly can see how going fully digital could be a challenge for some.

If Ryanair facilitate the few as they say they will then probably will work long term.

hold my beer · 13-11-2025 10:24AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123915506#Comment_123915506

Are you allowed bring power banks onto planes? I think their pictures with what you're not allowed carry has a power bank on it

Rocket_GD · 13-11-2025 10:28AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123984535#Comment_123984535

Yes power banks are allowed on planes in the cabin, not in checked luggage. They do say not to use them (afaik) on the last long distance flight I was on.

deandean · 13-11-2025 10:32AM

The rules say you can bring a power bank 20000mAh max in your carry-on baggage. I had one with me yesterday, no problems.

Chris_5339762 · 13-11-2025 11:23AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123961370#Comment_123961370

You could very easily game that to make some money.

embraer170 · 13-11-2025 06:52PM

Is it still possible to save the Ryanair Boarding pass in the Apple wallet?

Noxegon · 13-11-2025 09:06PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123985899#Comment_123985899

Yes.

Juran · 14-11-2025 08:42AM

So the new policy is ... once you have checked in on-line beforehand, Ryanair will print your boarding pass free of charge at the airport checkin area. Now we all know, the queues at these desks can be a nightmare. It will be interesting to see what the Ryanair printed pass will look like ? It sounds too easy to print your PDF pass off at home, present it at the boarding gate, and if questioned, say, 'oh, the Ryanair desk just printed this off for me as my phone is having technical issues this week'.

IngazZagni · 14-11-2025 08:59AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123987103#Comment_123987103

Why would they care? They won't. If you've got a barcode to scan that means you went to the effort of getting a digital boarding pass so they've succeeded in what their aim is. If you go to additional effort to print off said digital boarding pass then that's on you. That's what I'm assuming anyway. I could be wrong. Eventually people like you might just get tired of going to additional effort to print it off.

But also the ticket from the desk will probably be the same as it always was and what its like for every airline. It'll be on that rectangular piece of paper and not on an A4 piece of paper that you'd print at home.

davetherave · 14-11-2025 10:58AM

Ryanair said that 98% of passengers presented digital boarding passes for over 700 flights across Europe this morning. "The other 2% - all of whom had checked in online before arriving at the airport - were issued free of charge boarding passes at airport ticket desks," said a Ryanair statement.
No passengers were offloaded, and where one or two passengers had a problem with their phone, they were boarded as the boarding gates had their details from their online check-in, said the airline.

No Grannies left at the airport, no ruined family holidays. People with issues at the gate were looked up on the system like they always would have been. Free Boarding passes printed for those who've checked in. Where is all the doom and gloom?

https://www.irishexaminer.com/business/companies/arid-41741373.html

Rawr · 14-11-2025 11:20AM

I wonder if Ryanair's end goal here to to push forward to a situation where they will barely need any staff beyond their onboard crew and token logisitics.

I've been through a good few airports where you don't really need to interact with a member of staff unless something is wrong. Have used on-line checkin / checkin kiosks. Have used automated Bag Drop stations. Also at some gates I've used automated tailgates to board the plane. Really the only humans I talked to before taking my seat were the Security Check and buying something at the shop. The rest was automated.

Could it be that Ryanair want to soon get to the point where they only need one token member of staff per gate to babysit the tailgate system?

Dodge · 14-11-2025 12:58PM

as long as they need to check passports, there’ll be people. It’s just far too slow (for them) for someone to scan their boarding pass, scan their ID and have that ID checked by the systems

Working class heroes · 14-11-2025 02:14PM

Is it possible to transfer boarding pass from the app to someone else’s digital wallet?

Cyclingtourist · 14-11-2025 02:26PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123987986#Comment_123987986

I did this a couple of day's ago.

My wife's boarding card in my Google wallet has a share function and I sent it to her WhatsApp where it shows up like a jumble of figures but when she 'clicks' on it she can access her QR code 'boarding card'.

trellheim · 14-11-2025 05:44PM

The app looks to be necessary but not at the airport . They have changed the website so you cannot get the pass via email any more, which is a regressive step.

https://help.ryanair.com/hc/en-ie/categories/38653074432913-Digital-Boarding-Pass

I have just checked in at home for a flight, had to restart the app a few times because it was timing out , got the passes from the app and put them into the wallet. I do not want to risk needing the app at the airport or need any kind of an internet connection in other countries , the wallet doesnt need an internet connection.

p_haugh · 14-11-2025 06:16PM

For reference (on Google wallet at least), this is what's shown for a ryanair boarding pass in terms of sharing ability:

And it then gives you options on sharing a unique pay.google.com link:

Henry Ford III · 14-11-2025 06:21PM

Flew with Ryanair this morning. Checked in on the app.

No issues whatsoever.

I don't understand the fuss.

trellheim · 14-11-2025 08:09PM

the fuss - from my POV is that you will need have the pass saved in the wallet to guard against loss of Internet at the airport. I havent seen anywhere that the app is guaranteed to show saved passes without a network connection

Ryanair will no longer accept printed boarding passes ...

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