Ryanair to introduce charges for airport check-in
Ryanair will charge an extra £2 per person for passengers who check in at the airport.
The charge, which used to be for online check-in, has now been switched to airport check-in in order to encourage more passengers to check in online.
However, the online check-in is only available to passengers travelling with just hand luggage. As well as avoiding the additional £2 charge, these passengers automatically get priority boarding.
Passengers who need to check in bags, but want priority boarding, can pay a £2 charge when booking. But they will still have to check in at the airport and pay an additional £2.
The changes come into force for bookings made from September 20.
Ryanair’s Peter Sherrard said: “Ryanair’s web check in and priority boarding service has proven very popular among passengers by freeing them from check-in queues and departure gate queues.
“However clearly charging for this service has acted as a disincentive. We expect that providing this service free of charge (with Ryanair’s generous hand baggage allowance of 10 kilos) will significantly increase usage.”
Ryanair also charges £5 per checked in bag.
By Bev Fearis
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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