News: Ryanair increases checking in charges
Flights > News > # 1664 (30/01/2008)
Ryanair this week increased its charges for checking in at the airport.
The no-frills airline, which aims to encourage all passengers to use its website to check in, announced that the cost of checking in at the airport, rather than online, has gone up from £2 to £3.
The new charges, which can add up to as much as £50 a flight, mean some customers now pay more in extra fees than they do for their ticket. Other fees include a priority boarding charge of £3 and a credit-card payment fee of £6 a passenger per return flight (or £24 for a family of four). It also costs £70 to change a name on a ticket or £30 to change the date, time or destination of a flight.
A Ryanair spokesman said that passengers can expect other fees to rise further.
"These will not be the last increases in Ryanair's checked-in baggage or airport check-in fees, which will continue to increase until we reach our objective of persuading at least 50 per cent of Ryanair passengers to travel with hand luggage only, use our free web check-in service and avoid airport check-in queues," said Peter Sherrard, the company's head of communications.
He added that these charges would enable the airline to reduce the number of check-in desks and handling staff at the airport and pass the savings on to passengers.
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