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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Simon Calder

What Ryanair’s new smartphone boarding pass system means for passengers

Europe’s biggest budget airline plans to scrap most paper boarding passes from 12 November 2025. Instead, passengers will be expected to present the pass from the Ryanair app on a smartphone.

Ryanair says that, from that date, “passengers will no longer be able to download and print a physical paper boarding pass”. Instead, they must “use the digital boarding pass generated in their ‘myRyanair’ app during check-in to board their Ryanair flight”.

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