Ryanair checkin Q
Feb 21, 2011 | 2:13 am
#2
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: MIA
Posts: 56
YES
With a US Passport, you can check-in online to avoid the 40 surcharge. However, once you have printed your boarding pass at home, you need to get your boarding pass "stamped" by RyanAir at the airport in a process they call Visa Check (I believe it is true for all non-EU passports). In different airports, it works differently. But usually it is not at the ticket counter, but at a separate desk with a shorter line. The first time I flew them, I was not aware I needed to get the stamp and was stopped at security upon showing my boarding pass and told I had to go show my US passport and get the authorization. No big deal, as I was early. But worth keeping in mind since it does add time to the whole process.
Feb 21, 2011 | 8:30 am
#4
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: PDX
Programs: Don't think it matters...
Posts: 5,255
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/budge...y-ryanair.html .. read from post 81 onwards..@:-)
Feb 22, 2011 | 9:26 pm
#5
Join Date: Jul 2005
Posts: 3,077
I have flown a r/t with Ryan air from Charleroi to Krakow on a US Passport.
I booked the ticket online without any issues and printed my boarding pass. I made two copies and placed them in different bags to avoid the chance to losing one.
At about Charleroi and Krakow the visa check line was the bag drop line. I had a short line in Charleroi, no more than 5 minutes or so and no line at all in Krakow. The process is done before you clear secuirty and takes almost no time at all. The agent glances at your passport and stamps your BP.
My overall RyanAir expereince was fine I had no complaines. Both flights were ontime and no one was rude. I knew what their baggage allowance was and planned acordingly.
Most Ryan Air fees are a tax on the disorganized, which is why I would have expected them to get higher markets here on FT.
My seat did not recline and had to listen to constant annoucements with FAs trying to sell me stuff. However, I was expecting all that and didn't want to pay three times more to fly a major.
I booked the ticket online without any issues and printed my boarding pass. I made two copies and placed them in different bags to avoid the chance to losing one.
At about Charleroi and Krakow the visa check line was the bag drop line. I had a short line in Charleroi, no more than 5 minutes or so and no line at all in Krakow. The process is done before you clear secuirty and takes almost no time at all. The agent glances at your passport and stamps your BP.
My overall RyanAir expereince was fine I had no complaines. Both flights were ontime and no one was rude. I knew what their baggage allowance was and planned acordingly.
Most Ryan Air fees are a tax on the disorganized, which is why I would have expected them to get higher markets here on FT.
My seat did not recline and had to listen to constant annoucements with FAs trying to sell me stuff. However, I was expecting all that and didn't want to pay three times more to fly a major.