Ryanair will move to 100 percent web check-in October this year to reduce travel times for all of its passengers.

Published: 11 Mar 2009

Ryanair will move to 100 percent web check-in October this year to reduce travel times for all of its passengers.

The airline stated that 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. 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.

From 1st October 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. Also, from this date, children under the age of 16 will no longer be able to travel unaccompanied.

“Ryanair’s average one way air fare has now been reduced (by a further nine percent 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,” said Ryanair’s Stephen McNamara.

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