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• More annoying Ryanair fees

  May 14, 2009 @ 11:17 am | by Conor Pope

  The actual seats might be cheap but some of the add-on charges associated with flying Ryanair take the biscuit (that’ll be €2). Yesterday it issued a press release announcing that people who book flights from May 20th will have to check in online before arriving at the airport, which is grand.

  Sort of.

  Up until now, folk who used Ryanair’s airport check-in desks were charged €10 while those who checked-in online did not pay anything – presumably because there was little or not costs associated with online check-in. Well, now there is. The tenner charge has been scrapped (Yay!) but has been replaced by a fee of €5 fee per person, per flight irrespective of how they check in.

  And printer’s ink must be at a premium at the low fair airline because it is also introducing a new penalty of €40 for re-issuing boarding cards that has already been printed.

• Pay as you go

  March 9, 2009 @ 8:05 am | by Conor Pope

  Michael O’Leary has insisted he is serious about charging passengers to use onboard toilets and has instructed aircraft manufacturers to examine a credit card system rather than a coin slot. If the company is going to make people use credit cards, what are people without cards going to do – and is the airline going to impose one of its beloved credit card “handling fees” for the transaction?