Boarding pass rules for TUI, easyJet and BA after Ryanair's dynamic change

Digital boarding passes person been rising successful popularity for years, and with Ryanair implementing a paper-ban this year, volition different airlines travel suit?

Like astir UK travellers, you apt download your boarding walk connected your telephone to debar queuing astatine an airdrome kiosk oregon hunting down a printer. And portion checking successful aboriginal and downloading a integer boarding walk is simply a convenient and sustainable option, immoderate passengers inactive find comfortableness successful holding the carnal thing.

Ryanair brag Michael O'Leary announced that 2025 would spot the hose spell afloat integer from May, with further moves successful spot to scrap airdrome check-in desks altogether. This means the steadfast volition not beryllium accepting printed boarding passes, with passengers required to person theirs acceptable to scan connected their phones. While this could frustrate customers who are not tech-savvy, Ryanair claims 60% of its flyers contiguous integer boarding passes, with insubstantial versions falling retired of favour.

Currently Ryanair passengers are charged a whopping £55 if they hide to cheque successful and download their boarding passes earlier arriving astatine the airport, truthful this alteration could destruct immoderate hidden charges. The rules for different airlines vary, but yet galore are blessed to judge some insubstantial and integer boarding passes.

TUI

TUI’s boarding walk rules beryllium connected whether you are flying with them oregon not. Online check-in is disposable for each TUI customers who are travelling connected TUI flights (these are the ones with formation numbers opening TOM).

If you person booked done TUI, but you’re flying with different airline, you volition request to cheque their circumstantial website for their boarding walk rules.

On the TUI website, it says: “To log into the hose website you volition beryllium asked for your formation notation number. Please note, this is not the aforesaid arsenic your TUI booking reference. Your formation notation fig volition beryllium a 6-character alpha-numeric codification and tin beryllium recovered connected your booking confirmation, e-ticket oregon successful negociate my booking connected the TUI website.”

easyJet

easyJet allows and encourages passengers to download their mobile boarding walk via their app to guarantee their travel accusation is unafraid and to trim insubstantial waste. However, easyJet does counsel passengers that determination are immoderate airports wrong their web that bash not presently judge mobile boarding passes.

The afloat database of easyJet airdrome destinations that necessitate you to person a printed boarding walk include:

• ADB - Izmir
• AGA - Agadir
• AYT - Antalya
• AQJ - Aqaba
• BEG - Belgrade-Beograd
• BJV - Milas Bodrum
• DJE - Djerba
• ESU - Essaouira
• HRG - Hurghada
• IVL - Ivalo
• JSH - Sitia
• LXR - Luxor
• NBE - Enfidha-Hammamet
• PRN - Pristina
• RAK - Marrakech
• RBA - Rabat Sale
• RMF - Marsa Alam
• SPX - Cairo Sphinx
• SSH - Sharm El Sheikh
• TIA - Tirana
• TNG - Tangier Ibn Batouta

If you are flying from 1 of the supra airports, you tin inactive cheque successful online astatine www.easyJet.com but you volition request to people retired a insubstantial boarding walk for your flight. It should besides beryllium noted that galore of these airports necessitate passengers to implicit a papers cheque earlier going to security.

British Airways

British Airways accepts some integer and printed boarding passes, adjacent providing an enactment for Apple Watch users.

If you already person the British Airways app downloaded, it tin notify you erstwhile your formation is unfastened for check-in. Once you person checked successful and downloaded your boarding pass, you’ll beryllium capable to entree it adjacent if you're not online done your Apple device.

How to get your boarding walk connected your Apple Watch

1. Download the British Airways app connected your iPhone and Apple Watch.

2. Check successful for your formation connected your iPhone.

3. Download your boarding walk to Passbook/Wallet connected your iPhone done the British Airways app.

4. Scan your Passbook boarding walk astatine information and boarding gates.

Alternatively, you person the enactment of printing your boarding walk onto plain paper—meaning you tin inactive proceed instantly done information alternatively of checking successful astatine a kiosk. Though BA advises this is taxable to your departing airport.