Ryanair bookings and web check-in planned downtime

[J&J]

The Ryanair booking engine and web check-in facility will be down from 21st to 25th Feb. With all passengers having to check-in at airport desks this is bound to cause extra delays at airports. Advise your guests to allow extra time. Details at:

http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/notices. ... overnsk-GB


Titch.

[la vache!]

Not sure about guests, but it is certainly worthwhile to know for my OH who is flying Ryanair next weekend. Ryanair have not notified us of this and he always does the web check in. Thanks T and J.

[J&J]

Judith's flying out Monday 25th so it will affect her too. I only found out about when looking to book more flights on the RA site and saw the small print (very small) on the home page. It will probably be chaotic at Stansted ! Not being able to take any bookings for four days will cost them dearly - let's hope the new booking software is worth it.

[Marg]

Ryanair are finally being made to show all the taxes included in the flight price that they advertise - be interesting to see their prices now.
I'd really like to know what Gordon Brown has done with all the 'environment tax' money that has been collected over the last year

[e-richard]

I'd really like to know what Gordon Brown has done with all the 'environment tax' money that has been collected over the last year

What makes you think any of it actually went to Gordon Brown ?

[Marg]

He was chancellor of the exchequer at the time - Gordon Brown = Labour government

[J&J]

Well, there's good news and bad news. The good news is that their site is back up and running (well maybe running isn't quite the right word). The even better news is that they've got loads of flights at 1p each way including taxes - yes really - as long as you travel on a Tuesday or Wednesday. The even even better news is that you can now web-checkin up to five days in advance.

The bad news is that the site is running so slow that the battery runs out on my laptop before the page refreshes so it isn't possible to benefit from any of these wonderful things.

I've spent all evening trying to do a web checkin and after three hours I've managed to print two and am still waiting for the third one.

[Hells Bells]

Booking engine is running at a snails pace, I haven't even got it to load past the first page yet. I have potential guests trying to book a flight. I think I will lose the booking if they're trying to book Ryanair which is likely. I may suggest they try Sleazy from Luton to Turin instead.

[Topcat]

Going back to Gordon's tax, what happens if you don't pay it? Up to now I've always paid it, but it seems to be going up all the time and so this last booking I didn't. I've never been sure if it was voluntary or not - and like others, I'd like to know what happens to it.

TC