At check-in
Ryanair shifts at the end of the printed board
Actually, the printed board at Ryanair should be abolished in May. Now the Irish do not want to force their customers to their smartphones until November.
The Ryanair airline gives the printed boarding pass. Passengers can check in with a paper boarding pass by at the beginning of November, as the company reports. The original announcement by the CEO Michael O’Leary to fully implement the switch to electronic solutions in May is therefore obsolete.
Only electronic boarding passes
From November 3, Europe’s largest direct airline only wants to accept boarding passes on cell phones or other electronic devices. At least the main booker of a trip must therefore request the boarding passes in the corporate app, it can then also pass it on to the fellow travelers via messenger services. According to the company, 80 percent of the guests are currently using the app for the boarding passes.
According to media reports, the first announcements had already led to customer-protest in Great Britain because not all people have a smartphone or the like. The devices could also fail or the battery could be exhausted. At some target airports of the airline, for example in Turkey or Morocco, the authorities also require boarding passes printed out.
Ryanair wants to become the world’s first paperless airline. With the electronic boarding cards, more than 300 tons of waste could be avoided per year, according to a message. So far, the company has been an extra fee if passenger does not check in electronically themselves, but rather use the staff on the airport switches. You expect “almost all fees for checking in at the airport from November,” explains the airline. Guests already checked in with broken or empty smartphones will be helped free of charge.
dpa
Source: Stern
