RYANAIR’S new boarding pass rules are being rolled out this month – and passengers could face being caught out at the airport.
From November 12, the budget airline will no longer offer printed boarding passes.
Desks at the airports will no longer offer the option to print them – which currently has a fee of £55.
Instead, passengers will have to use the Ryanair app to get their mobile boarding pass.
However, it is thought as many as 15 per cent of Ryanair passengers don’t use smartphones.
CEO Michael O’Leary said: “Between 85 and 90 per cent of passengers show up with smartphones.”
The airline has advised that even if you lost your phone or the battery dies at the airport, you will still be able to travel as long as you have checked in.
The gate agent will instead be able to assist and print one.
Airports will still have desks for checking in.
Some destinations such as Morocco still require a printed boarding pass, so passengers will have to show their digital boarding pass and will then be able to get a printed version at the airport.
Anyone who doesn’t check in before their flight will have to pay a check in fee at the airport.
The scrapping of boarding passes was initially planned for May, but this was then delayed to November 3, then to November 12.
Ryanair CMO Dara Brady said at the time: “This move to 100 per cent paperless boarding passes from November 2025 will allow us to deliver an enhanced travel experience for customers, streamlined through the myRyanair app during our less busy Winter schedule.”
It’s not the only big change that the budget airline recently rolled out.
Ryanair recently increased the size of the free bags passengers can take with them into the cabin.
Previously, the size of the small personal item was 40x20x25cm.
However, new bag sizers rolled out across all airports last month have since increased this to 40x30x20cm.
The additional 5cm means an increase of capacity from 20l to 24l, and takes it to a similar size of other airlines.
In the mean time, here is a new city you can fly to with Ryanair from the UK that you might not have heard of.
