Ryanair versucht, App-Downloads durch die Abschaffung von Papier-Bordkarten zu erzwingen | Der CEO von Ryanair gibt zu, dass es „einige Startschwierigkeiten geben wird.“
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/ryanair-tries-forcing-app-downloads-by-eliminating-paper-boarding-passes/
24 Kommentare
Airline CEOs be like: *Hm. How can I make people hate us even more?.*
I’ll take this over forced printed passes any day.
WizzAir wants you to have a piece of paper to check in and it’s a 40EUR fee at the counter, if you don’t.
Bish, I don’t own a printer for a decade now.
I get eliminating paper tickets, a lot of places do e-tickets.
But I also find e-tickets always end up being problematic. Oops, my screen turned off while waiting. Oh, the screen auto-rotated while trying to show it to the person. Oh wait, the site logged me out and now I have to log back in while holding up the line. Great, the page wont load because I have a bad signal and don’t want to connect to a random public wifi.
Ryanair does some frustrating things sometimes, but the prices compensate for it. They are pretty good at making travel very affordable in Europe.
What happens if you drop your phone at the gate and it breaks? Or some ass clown TSA agent drops it while rifling through your personal belongings?
I’ve been using e-tickets and the airline apps for many, many years.
That being said, I always appreciate and carry a paper copy of the ticket and my ass has been saved more than one time by having a hard copy when my phone was… unavailable.
There will always be some portion of mostly elderly people that don’t want to deal with a fucking phone app and would prefer a piece of paper. I sympathize with those people.
It’s a steep cost (£55 / $72) for agent assistance. Frontier charges $25, and I thought that was high.
It sounds like they’re eliminating more than just paper passes. They are eliminating all passes, paper or digital, unless obtained via the app.
all is well, but how do I transfer the ticket I bought for someone else in their name to their app?
This stupid. They’ll have thousands of people with dead phones every day. Not sure about Europe but. 90% of the airport outlets are dummies in the US.
Way to compare your customers to babies
I think it sucks, at least you had a paper option in case things go wrong. I know it 2025 but not everyone has a smart phone.
I think Easyjet has it right – you get the PDF when you book emailed to you with the pass, which you can either print or store and scan, but you can also add the ticket to your Google/Apple wallet, or you can use the app (which is actually decent) and it shows up there too – plenty of convenient options to suit pretty much anyone!
We’re in the 21st century, why is default e-tickets big news?
Not that i would ever fly ryanair but any elimination of paper is a win in my book
If it’s just about the paper, there is no need for an app.
Just send out a pdf or a card to add to Apple / Google Wallet.
But it’s probably not about paper, and more likely a push for more tracking.
People are overlooking the permissions and intrusive behaviors of the app. An email PDF should be sufficient.
I don’t want her another app bloating my phone and spying on me.
Just asking for a DDOS to take their entire airline down lmao
I HATE HATE HATE being forced to download an app. Even if I was ok with it my phone doesn’t have the space for anymore pointless apps to be shoved down my throat
As someone whose phone bricked while traveling for work once, yikes
I’m stoked that air travel is accessible to everyone, but I am slightly more stoked that I can afford to avoid this shitty airline.
Coming soon: App for your toilet! So you could „conveniently take a shit“ and earn „cool loyalty points“!
It’s so they gave a walled garden where they can sell services to a captive audience that can’t be compared with stuff outside the app.
Can’t buy what you can’t see with Expedia etc.