{"id":411744,"date":"2026-04-22T12:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/411744\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T12:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:44:07","slug":"ryanair-to-close-airport-check-in-and-bag-drop-20-minutes-earlier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/411744\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryanair to close airport check-in and bag-drop 20 minutes earlier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/maintopics\/ryanair_topic-5064299.html\">Ryanair<\/a> passengers who need to use its airport check-in or bag-drop services will be required to finish the process 20 minutes earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The airline announced it will close the services an hour before the scheduled departure of a flight \u2013 compared with 40 minutes currently \u2013 to give passengers more time to get through security and passport checks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This will reduce the \u201cvery small number of passengers\u201d who miss their flight while stuck in queues, the carrier added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Ryanair\u2019s website says passengers who fail to check in on time \u201cmay be denied boarding without refund\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The new policy will be in place from November 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Passengers will still able to check in online until two hours before departure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Ryanair chief marketing officer Dara Brady said the \u201csmall 20-minute change\u201d will \u201callow these 20% of our customers who check in a bag more time to clear through airport security and passport queues, and get to their departure gate on time\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He added that this will be particularly important \u201cduring busy travel periods when some of these airport queues can be longer\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Many UK passengers are suffering delays at airports on continental Europe because of the rollout of new border rules.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The EU\u2019s Entry\/Exit System (EES) involves people from external countries such as the UK having their fingerprints registered and photograph taken to enter the Schengen Area, which consists of 29 European countries, mainly in the EU.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">More than 100 easyJet passengers stuck in delays at passport desks at Milan Linate airport missed a flight to Manchester earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Ryanair said it is installing more self-service bag drop kiosks across its network.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">By October, more than 95% of the airports it serves will have these.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n             &#8211; Press Association\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryanair passengers who need to use its airport check-in or bag-drop services will be required to finish the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,1899],"class_list":["post-411744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-ryanair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}