Ryanair will charge an extra £2 per person for passengers who check in at the airport.
The charge, which used to be for online check-in, has now been switched to airport check-in in order to encourage more passengers to check in online.
However, the online check-in is only available to passengers travelling with just hand luggage. As well as avoiding the additional £2 charge, these passengers automatically get priority boarding.
Passengers who need to check in bags, but want priority boarding, can pay a £2 charge when booking. But they will still have to check in at the airport and pay an additional £2.
The changes come into force for bookings made from September 20.
Ryanair’s Peter Sherrard said: “Ryanair’s web check in and priority boarding service has proven very popular among passengers by freeing them from check-in queues and departure gate queues.
“However clearly charging for this service has acted as a disincentive. We expect that providing this service free of charge (with Ryanair’s generous hand baggage allowance of 10 kilos) will significantly increase usage.”
Ryanair also charges £5 per checked in bag.
By Bev Fearis
