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Ryanair To Go 100% Web Check-In From
October
Ryanair, Europe’s largest low fares
airline, today (10 March) announced it will move to 100% web check-in
from 1st October 2009. This move will allow all passengers,
including those travelling with checked baggage, to check-in online
thereby avoiding time wasting queues and delays at airport check-in
desks.
Ryanair’s web check-in service is open
from 15 days to 4 hours before the scheduled departure time of each
flight. Web check-in can be accessed via ryanair.com using booking
confirmation numbers or flight details to retrieve each reservation.
Having printed their boarding cards at
home passengers without check-in bags can continue to proceed directly
through airport security while those with check-in bags can simply
present at one of Ryanair’s “drop desks” before proceeding through
airport security to the boarding gate. This will free passengers from
wasting hours at airports prior to departure and will dramatically
reduce travel times for all Ryanair passengers.
Ryanair will phase in the introduction
of its 100% web check-in as follows:
· Phase 1: From 19th
March 2009, Ryanair’s web check-in service will be extended to (a) non
EU/EEA citizens, (b) passengers travelling with checked baggage and (c)
reduced mobility customers.
Customers choosing web check-in and
travelling with only carry-on bags will continue to enjoy this service
free of charge. A web check-in fee of £5/€5 per person/per flight will
apply to passengers travelling with checked baggage, while customers who
wish to use airport check-in will be charged an airport check-in fee of
£10/€10 per person/per flight at the time of booking.
· Phase 2: From 1st
May 2009 all new bookings will be required to use web check-in, and the
use of traditional airport check-in desks will be phased out over the
summer months. The web check-in fee of £5/€5 per person, per flight will
apply to all new bookings (except promotional fares) from 1st
May 2009. In order to dissuade passengers from using airport check-in
desks, the fee for airport check-in will double to £20/€20 per
person/per flight at the time of booking.
· Phase 3: From 1st October
2009 airport check-in desks will no longer be available at any Ryanair
airport. All passengers will be required to web check-in and those who
have checked in bags will use the airport “bag drop” desks, if required.
From this date, children under the age of 16 will no longer be able to
travel unaccompanied and passports and national ID cards will be the
only accepted forms of photo ID on Ryanair flights.
Ryanair’s Stephen McNamara said:
“Ryanair’s web check-in service is
currently used by up to 75% of our passengers. This increasing trend has
allowed Ryanair to continue to reduce our guaranteed lowest fares.
Ryanair’s average one way air fare has now been reduced (by a further 9%
in the last quarter) to just €34. Ryanair will phase in 100% web
check-in and our “bag drop” service during summer 2009 thereby allowing
all Ryanair passengers to benefit from the convenience of avoiding
airport check-in queues.
“Ryanair’s move to 100% web check-in
from 1st October 2009 is a first for the airline industry and
is another pioneering move from Ryanair, which will again lower the cost
of flying for millions of Ryanair customers. We are confident that all
passengers will embrace this improved service which will allow them to
forever avoid check-in queues while at the same time it will enable
Ryanair to lower our airport and handling costs and pass on these
savings to all passengers in the form of even lower air fares next
winter”.
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