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RYANAIR is enforcing two major changes for passengers in the next few months.
Anyone flying with the airline needs to check both the size of their hand luggage and make sure they’ve got the correct boarding pass before travelling later this year.
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In early July, Ryanair announced it would be changing its hand luggage rules.
However, this is not necessarily a bad thing for passengers as it means they get a little more room.
Ryanair is in the process of changing the size of its personal bag allowance from 40x20x25cm to 40x30x20cm.
This is an increase of 5cm – and the standard size of personal luggage for most other airlines.
It’s also changed the overall capacity from 20 litres to 24 litres.
A Ryanair spokesperson said: “Following the new EU minimum bag size of 40x30x15cm, Ryanair will increase its max “personal bag” dimensions to 40x30x20cm, so that Ryanair’s ‘personal bag’ allowance is bigger than the EU standard.
“This change will be implemented over the coming weeks, as our airport bag sizers are adjusted.”
If you attempt to board with a bag that doesn’t fit into the sizers you are likely to face a fine, or fee to bring it onboard.
The Ryanair website details that passengers who bring an oversized bag (over 55x40x20cm) to the boarding gate will either have their bag refused or placed in the hold of the aircraft for a fee of £75.
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As the new sizers are still being rolled out at all airports that the airline flies out from, Ryanair encourages passengers to comply with the old measurements for now.
This is until it announces the new ones are all in place which is expected to be in October 2025.
Another change Ryanair is making from this year is that it’s going completely paperless and in some case there will be no check-in desk at all.
From November 3, 2025 the airline will no longer accept printed boarding passes.
Ryanair CMO Dara Brady said: “This move to 100 per cent paperless boarding passes from November 2025 will allow us to deliver an enhanced travel experience for customers, streamlined through the myRyanair app during our less busy winter schedule.
“This will be particularly useful to passengers during disruptions as it will facilitate real-time updates from our Ops Centre directly to passengers’ phones, and will also provide them with alternative flight options, and offer transfers or hotel accommodation options when necessary.”
When the new rules are rolled out, passengers will only be able to get a digital boarding pass.
And there are no exceptions as check-in desks will not be able to print them out at the airport.
However, some airports don’t accept mobile passes including those in Morocco and Turkey (except Dalaman), and Tirana airport in Albania.
Anyone travelling from these airports will need to download their boarding pass from the email confirmation or from the app, print it and keep it to hand.
Ryanair spoke to Which? who said that “if someone’s phone dies or breaks they will be assisted by staff at the gate and their details will be crossed checked and validated against our flight manifest and they will be boarded as normal.”
Currently, there’s a £55 charge for passengers who forget their boarding pass and need it printed at the airport – but this is set to be scrapped with the new rule.
At the moment, there is no mention of what will happen if a traveller’s phone dies before they can pass through security in an airport where Ryanair has removed check-in desks.
This European airport is at risk of closure as Ryanair prepares to scrap all flights.
And here’s another European airport is losing all of its Ryanair flights this year.
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