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Ryanair already has mobile boarding passes and have done for I want to say at least 10 years? You honestly think Ryanair makes serious money from reprinting bo

Ryanair already has mobile boarding passes and have done for I want to say at least 10 years? You honestly think Ryanair makes serious money from reprinting boarding passes? I doubt I have ever seen anyone at the Ryanair ticket desk at STN for example. That compares to the 50k+ passengers a day that go through STN on Ryanair. Baggage charges of course, as is with food, but boarding passes is not a money maker for them. Those counters don't typically print tickets, it's a different "ticketing" counter.

m000 1y ago
> Those counters don't typically print tickets, it's a different "ticketing" counter. WTF are you talking about? (a) Ticketing counters sell tickets. (b) To print a boarding pass you just need a printer, which is already present on ALL baggage drop off counters. It is the same printer that prints the baggage labels.
- martinald 1y ago
  Most LCCs make you go to a ticketing counter to print boarding passes and have done for some time. You do not want to hold the luggage queue up with printing out boarding passes. Same with visa checks.
dzhiurgis 1y ago
While I generally support Ryanair, there's something to be said about their boarding passes. If you book their flights via agent (I had because of somewhat complex flight and I didn't want to enter details 4 times) then you can't really access their checkin page since agent uses their email address and Ryanair doesn't let you just use PNR + Name anymore (increasingly popular with other airlines too). My agency was still sleeping at the time of flight and badaboom badabing I had to pay €200+ for checking in 6 people.
- martinald 1y ago
  Yeah but this very much intentional, because Ryanair (especially) do not want to be sold via agents. They have went to pretty extreme lengths to stop it. They do not want to be disintermediated (rightly or wrongly). FWIW they do now have a page where you can verify with just email + PNR https://onlineform.ryanair.com/gb/en/customer-verification https://onlineform.ryanair.com/gb/en/customer-verification
- attendant3446 1y ago
  They even do it to bookings made through their own website. Bookings in my old account were constantly blocked after I made them. Each time, I received an email saying that I had booked through a third-party agent and that I had to verify my account. I complained about it every time. Once, they even promised that it had been fixed, but the same thing happened on the next booking. This verification process takes a couple of days, or you can opt for a paid express option. I eventually decided to delete my old account and create a new one after a while, but the same thing kept happening and support didn't even care.

m000 1y ago

> Those counters don't typically print tickets, it's a different "ticketing" counter. WTF are you talking about? (a) Ticketing counters sell tickets. (b) To print a boarding pass you just need a printer, which is already present on ALL baggage drop off counters. It is the same printer that prints the baggage labels.

martinald 1y ago
Most LCCs make you go to a ticketing counter to print boarding passes and have done for some time. You do not want to hold the luggage queue up with printing out boarding passes. Same with visa checks.

dzhiurgis 1y ago

While I generally support Ryanair, there's something to be said about their boarding passes. If you book their flights via agent (I had because of somewhat complex flight and I didn't want to enter details 4 times) then you can't really access their checkin page since agent uses their email address and Ryanair doesn't let you just use PNR + Name anymore (increasingly popular with other airlines too). My agency was still sleeping at the time of flight and badaboom badabing I had to pay €200+ for checking in 6 people.

martinald 1y ago
Yeah but this very much intentional, because Ryanair (especially) do not want to be sold via agents. They have went to pretty extreme lengths to stop it. They do not want to be disintermediated (rightly or wrongly). FWIW they do now have a page where you can verify with just email + PNR https://onlineform.ryanair.com/gb/en/customer-verification https://onlineform.ryanair.com/gb/en/customer-verification
attendant3446 1y ago
They even do it to bookings made through their own website. Bookings in my old account were constantly blocked after I made them. Each time, I received an email saying that I had booked through a third-party agent and that I had to verify my account. I complained about it every time. Once, they even promised that it had been fixed, but the same thing happened on the next booking. This verification process takes a couple of days, or you can opt for a paid express option. I eventually decided to delete my old account and create a new one after a while, but the same thing kept happening and support didn't even care.