Requiring an account to book a flight seems perfectly reasonable to me
It's bad UX at the very least. And technically you shouldn't need an account to make a booking.
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#22I had to do this recently, actually it was not possible to book the flight without doing it. I already have my passport attached to the accounting and this just felt incredibly invasive. But I still don't buy any of the reasons for it.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the point is > New customers must also go through a verification process which, for many people, involves invasive biometrics.
And the hard-to-select second choice is: "or going to the check-in counter at the airport more than two hours before departure" https://noyb.eu/en/booking-ryanair-flight-through-online-tra...
Going to the check-in counter at Ryanair costs "€/£55 (for flights from Spain €/£ 30)". https://www.ryanair.com/gb/en/useful-info/help-centre/fees
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, that’s the second choice that noyb mentioned last year when announcing their complaint about the then-current version of Ryanair’s policy. In the new article which triggered this HN post, discussing Ryanair’s updated policy, the second option is sending Ryanair a handwritten signature and a copy of a government ID.
It's an airplane ticket. Not a house selling contract!
The idea is to abide by the letter of the law, while making it far too inconvenient for anyone to actually do it. A bit like Apple and their iPhone battery replacement kits.
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#25This is a good thing. Let them put those facial scans on a wall of shame. Generating CO2 should be as awkward and uncomfortable as possible. I'm waiting for airlines to remove all passenger seats.
Modern airliner travel is about as or more co2-efficient as riding a bus.
I don’t regularly take buses to the other side of Europe to eat some gelato and gawk at cathedrals for a weekend. A lot of people use cheap airlines as cheap entertainment.
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#26The whole budget airline market is a pile of scams.
Try booking on one of RA's cheapest flight offers, and you'll find that there are things you can't not book, like a seat on the actual flight(s)!, for which there is no zero cost option. There are zero-cost options for those things on the other price-points, but they remove this to try make the cheapest options look cheaper than the competition even thought they actually aren't.
(I assume other airlines use similar scummy tricks, I mention RA as they are the subject of this article and I recently looked into travel options for a future trip including them as an option).
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#27This is a good thing. Let them put those facial scans on a wall of shame. Generating CO2 should be as awkward and uncomfortable as possible. I'm waiting for airlines to remove all passenger seats.
I'm all for making travel more expensive. Mostly to remove the trashy and rude people from the equation. I don't care about C02 but I do enjoy seeing megalomaniacs like John Kerry and Taylor Swift lecture us plebs on climate/social justice, but fly private jets everywhere.
It got a magnitude more expensive since covid. Private jets are the problem, not Kate from the UK flying to Tenerife once a year via ryan air.
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#28This is a good thing. Let them put those facial scans on a wall of shame. Generating CO2 should be as awkward and uncomfortable as possible. I'm waiting for airlines to remove all passenger seats.
Modern airliner travel is about as or more co2-efficient as riding a bus.
Possible, but taking the bus halfway around the world would also produce a lot of emissions.
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#29This is a good thing. Let them put those facial scans on a wall of shame. Generating CO2 should be as awkward and uncomfortable as possible. I'm waiting for airlines to remove all passenger seats.
It will only be awkward and uncomfortable for those who can’t afford business class and not flying in low cost airlines. So basically, it’s the same way it has always been, since we’re in the climate change situation because of rich countries, and I don’t think a lot of us in poor countries care to stop producing CO2, it’s our turn now. “Everything is gonna burn, we’ll all take turns, I’ll get mine too”
I mean if all you care about is greenhouse emissions this still works - leess flying is less flying.
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#30To RA: scan my ass