Warning to Ryanair Passengers Flying on Thursday
The site will be closed from Wednesday evening until 5am on Thursday morning (6am in Europe), according to this article in the The Telegraph: Ryanair Passengers warned over website shutdown.
The airline recently quadrupled its airport check-in fee to 40 euros, though the airline claims it's actually a Boarding Card Reprint Fee. Whatever they want to call it, it amounts to the same thing - if you don't check in online, you pay the 40 euros. Ryanair has resisted pressure to suspend the fee while the site is closed, despite their spokesman telling me that the new airport check-in fee, I mean, Boarding Card Reprint Fee, "is not a revenue generating measure – in fact we hope not to charge any passengers this fee." Of course, when there is website maintenance to be paid for, they are hardly going to donate the extra revenue to charity, are they?
In my attempts to alert unwary air passengers to Ryanair practices that could cause difficulties for their vacation plans, I have been accused by some readers (and by Ryanair themselves) of having an anti-Ryanair bias. However, in the past few days I have in fact found an airline whose booking system is even more riddled with potential pitfalls than that of Ryanair. Step to the plate, Flybe: Flybe Bookings: What You Should Know
Update 1 In other Ryanair news, I have just read about plans by Ryanair to scrap airport baggage check-in completely. Passengers will then be allowed to take more than one bag through security (leaving the extra bags by the side of the plane). So does that mean we will no longer be able to carry sharp objects or liquids with us on vacation at all anymore? Read about the proposals here: Ryanair to end airport baggage check-in.
Update 2 For the record, it seems that Ryanair finally succumbed to pressure and agreed to reprint people's boarding cards for free.
See also: Ryanair Responds to Criticisms
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