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For many years now, it has been known that Ryanair's profitability is the result of a real balancing act. For the Irish low-cost airline, every euro spent, and every service offered, can tip the scales one way or the other. A little over a year ago, Ryanair ordered 150 Boeing 737 Max 10s, allowing it to take on 40 more passengers per flight. In a few months, the company will adopt a new policy, which could put paper boarding pass fans in a difficult position.
The paper boarding pass at Ryanair is (soon) over!
Indeed, while many of us pass through airport security gates using a boarding pass scanned into our smartphone (or smartwatch), some prefer to play it safe by carefully printing out their flight documents. At Ryanair, they have decided to put an end to this soon, not for ecological reasons, but purely for economic reasons.
Because for the Irish company, putting an end to paper boarding passes also (and above all) gives it the possibility of closing the check-in counters at its airports. In other words, on your next flight with Ryanair, you may not be able to check in on site, chatting with a real person.
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But how to do it then ? Well, everything will happen directly via the company's website and/or your smartphone. For some time now, Ryanair has been encouraging its passengers to opt for this 100% digital form of check-in. But from 1st 2025, the company will impose this trend. “We want to remove checks at airports in the same way that we removed baggage claim counters” explains the company's CEO. According to Ryanair, around 6 out of 10 travellers have already adopted this 100% digital option to manage their flights, without the slightest need to print any card.
“The customers who still want a piece of paper are the same ones who, when we went all-Internet, did not want to switch to this new way of doing things, but who were the first to do so in order to benefit from cheaper airfares” said Michael O’Leary.
Even today, if many travelers continue to print their boarding passes, it is also for security reasons, particularly in the event of a possible battery problem on the smartphone. Ryanair promises them that check-in can still be done at the boarding gates, using an ID, without having to scan a barcode. The situation will be somewhat different for security checks, which require scanning your boarding pass’
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