A BUDGET airline has revealed that it will shut its check-in desks 20 minutes earlier amid growing concerns over border queues across Europe.
Ryanair is set to ensure that all bags are dropped off an hour before take-off while the current deadline is 40 minutes.
This change is set to ensure that passengers have more time to get through airport security and passport control.
The recent implementation of the European entry-exit system (EES) has seen border control queues increase in length with many travellers reporting missing flights due to being stuck waiting for their turn to register on the system.
Last week a Ryanair flight from Milan to Manchester left passengers behind due to problems at passport control with the airline saying: “Should these passengers have presented at the boarding gate before it closed, they would have boarded this flight”.
These individuals were stuck in EES queues waiting to register their biometric information, including face scans and fingerprints, on the new system. These details will then be checked every time that they cross a European Schengen Area border.
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Aware of the problems that some passengers have already faced, Ryanair has made the decision to change their check in times but only about 20% of Ryanair’s customers check in bags at airports. The others all pay for cabin bags or travelling without luggage, according to the airline.
This means that the majority of the airline’s flyers, of which there are 200 million annually, will be unaffected by the change that is set to be implemented by November.
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