{"id":392451,"date":"2026-01-27T04:12:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T04:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/392451\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T04:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T04:12:18","slug":"ryanair-warns-uk-passengers-to-check-in-early-ahead-of-30-minute-system-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/392451\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryanair warns UK passengers to check in early ahead of 30-minute system shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>        Ryanair issued an \u201curgent warning\u201d on 26 January to customers travelling on Wednesday, 28 January 2026: its website and mobile app will be offline for scheduled maintenance between 01:00 and 01:30 GMT.  During the 30-minute window, online check-in, new bookings, flight changes and name corrections will be impossible.  <\/p>\n<p>Although the Irish carrier describes the outage as routine, the timing could catch out London-area travellers booked on the first wave of morning departures from Stansted, Luton, Gatwick and regional UK airports.  Those who fail to check in online beforehand risk airport check-in fees of up to \u00a355\u2014costs that many corporate travel policies will not reimburse.  <\/p>\n<p>If the planned outage prompts you to review other pre-trip essentials such as visas or passport validity, VisaHQ\u2019s UK platform (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.visahq.com\/united-kingdom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"news__big_one_link\">https:\/\/www.visahq.com\/united-kingdom\/<\/a>) can fast-track the paperwork. The service handles e-visas, passport renewals and document legalisation, ensuring travellers avoid last-minute surprises while airline systems are offline.  <\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/additional_1_83291d9d-f8f0-4dd1-8f40-9ebc6d057717_middle.jpg\" alt=\"Ryanair warns UK passengers to check in early ahead of 30-minute system shutdown\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ryanair recommends that all passengers departing on 28 January complete online check-in by 23:59 on 27 January or wait until the systems come back online after 01:30.  Travel-programme administrators should cascade the notice to assignees, interns and other employee groups who may overlook airline e-mails sent outside office hours.  <\/p>\n<p>The carrier added that flights will operate as scheduled and airport check-in desks will remain open, but processing times could lengthen if significant numbers of passengers arrive without boarding passes.  Employers with early-morning field engineers and consultants may wish to issue printed boarding passes or instruct travellers to save mobile passes to their digital wallets before the outage.  <\/p>\n<p>The episode is a reminder that low-cost carriers\u2019 tight operational margins can amplify even brief IT outages, with knock-on costs for travellers who miss self-service deadlines.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryanair issued an \u201curgent warning\u201d on 26 January to customers travelling on Wednesday, 28 January 2026: its website&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-392451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}