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"Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (Thurs, 6 Nov) reminded passengers that from Wed (12 Nov) it will move to 100% digital boarding passes. This means that f
by meindnoch 11mo ago
"Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (Thurs, 6 Nov) reminded passengers that from Wed (12 Nov) it will move to 100% digital boarding passes. This means that from Wed (12 Nov) passengers will no longer be able to download and print a physical paper boarding pass but will instead need to use the digital boarding pass generated in their “myRyanair” app during check-in to board their Ryanair flight."
Why does it matter whether the boarding pass barcode is scanned from a printed paper vs a phone screen?
- saubeidl 11mo agoTheir app lets them exfiltrate data on you and use it for advertising/sell it to ad networks.
- reliablereason 11mo agothey say it is it's cause its greener but they could have used a website.
- saubeidl 11mo agoA pdf on your phone would've done that as well, but that's what they're explicitly banning with this move.
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- netsharc 11mo agoDidn't Uber get caught tracking their users (I want to say victims but there are actual victims of Uber sexual harassment/assault) even though they didn't have the app open? Tracking where your passengers go on vacation would be useful data for them. Sheesh you could even track flights: "User was online at London Heathrow until 11:45, and was then offline, and came back online again in Madrid at 14:30, the corresponding flight at those times was EasyJet 78".
- jackhalford 11mo agoFlying now requires you to own a smartphone
- fanatic2pope 11mo agoAnd to install an app, which almost certainly has privacy invasion baked into the terms of use.
- Freak_NL 11mo agoWith Ryanair. Something to be avoided if at all possible, but a very bad precedent in any case.
- signatoremo 11mo agoRather, enough people have smartphone that they won’t be object to using it as boarding pass.
- conception 11mo agoMaybe it’s nfc not qr.
- tencentshill 11mo agoIt's may be a dynamic QR code that changes at intervals.
- Fernicia 11mo agoAnti theft perhaps? Last March a guy was able to sneak onto a Delta flight by taking a picture of someone else's QR code. Some ticketing apps have temporal QR codes that are resistant to this exploit.
- meindnoch 11mo agoThey didn't verify the passenger's identity at the gate?
- redfern314 11mo agoID is never checked at the gate for domestic flights, only international, at least in the US. This was the case being referenced: https://abc7.com/post/wicliff-yves-fleurizard-stowaway-security-break-delta-airlines/14568369/ https://abc7.com/post/wicliff-yves-fleurizard-stowaway-secur...
- Zambyte 11mo agoI have never been asked to show ID on domestic flights at the gate.
- mikestew 11mo agoFor a period after 9/11, ID was required to be shown at the gate on domestic flights. I don't recall when that stopped, but it's been a while (and apparently long enough ago that apparently some have never had to do it).
- toast0 11mo agoI seem to recall IDs occasionally being checked at the gate prior to 9/11 as well. Memory is fuzzy, but they weren't checking boarding passes or ids at security. But back then I would always get my boarding pass at the check-in counter (sometimes exchanging an actual ticket for the boarding pass).
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- 4ndrewl 11mo agoIt'll be interesting to see where this is enforced. Most people won't actually see a member of Ryanair staff until the gate (at which point very often you're asked to scan your own barcode with a staff member present). I reckon you'll be able to print out a screenshot of the app and use it to check your bags in and get through security. They won't hold a flight up with checked bags at the gate - will cost them too much money.
- rixed 11mo agoIt's not rare that some staff are checking that passengers have all needed documents as they head to departures. Looks like they could check app usage there. They could also easily check the app when bags are checked in (that's Ryanair staff doing this). In smaller airports (the ones Ryanair used to operate from) it's also sometimes their own barcode scanners before the gates that are dedicated to them. I believe they will be able to enforce this in many places.
- 4ndrewl 11mo agoRyanair use scan-and-drop self-checkin of bags in many airports. It would also be curious to see who pays for removal of persons once they are airside - eg in the case the flyer with nothing to check in who goes past airport security, but before RyanAir staff meet them at the gate.
- kyriakos 11mo agoUnless it's a TOTP style code and changes
- ThePowerOfFuet 11mo ago>Why does it matter whether the boarding pass barcode is scanned from a printed paper vs a phone screen? They can't collect your data from a printed sheet.