No app, no flight: airline axes paper boarding passes

[Larko1]

From Exec.traveller:

https://www.executivetraveller.com/news/no-app-no-flight-airline-axes-paper-boarding-passes

 

[moa999]

Of course it's RyanAir.

That said this is very un-RyanAir

As long as you've checked in before you got to the airport, we’ll reissue a paper boarding pass at the airport free of charge.

And reality is a barcode is a barcode. Shouldnt matter if it's in an app or on paper.
(Don't believe the airline standards allow for rotating or secure/time based bar codes)

 

[Himeno]

Another tax on people who don't have a working phone that happens to support a silly app.

 

[PERLHR]

Another tax on people who don't have a working phone that happens to support a silly app.

Or being progressive. Bet they will not be the only carrier over the coming months...

 

[Himeno]

Or being progressive. Bet they will not be the only carrier over the coming months...

Making things harder and reducing options isn't being "progressive". Nor is punishing people who don't have access to whatever they randomly decide they need to have.

 

[PERLHR]

Making things harder and reducing options isn't being "progressive". Nor is punishing people who don't have access to whatever they randomly decide they need to have.

Yep tell that to the banks, airlines who insist on self tagging, cashless society, list goes on.....RYR are by far not the only ones. If pax don't like it it's easy as with everything RYR, just simply don't fly them.

 

[Forg]

Making things harder and reducing options isn't being "progressive". Nor is punishing people who don't have access to whatever they randomly decide they need to have.

I reckon they've done their sums, and decided that people who don't have access to a smartphone aren't in their target-market.